Christopher Isherwood - South Central

Question

A novel by this author begins with the line: “Waking up begins with saying and and now.” For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this English-born novelist who wrote about the grieving gay professor George in A Single Man. This author’s novel Goodbye to Berlin inspired the musical Cabaret.

ANSWER: Christopher Isherwood [or Christopher William Bradshaw Isherwood]

[10h] Isherwood created this wig-wearing communist agent who titles a novel often paired with Goodbye to Berlin. In that novel, the detached aesthete William Bradshaw meets this character on a train from Amsterdam.

ANSWER: Mr. Norris [or Arthur Norris; accept Mr. Norris Changes Trains]

[10e] Because he is “ugly, effeminate, and a masochist,” Joshua Glenn characterized Mr. Norris as the “anti-” this character. This staple of espionage fiction is the star of the novels The Spy Who Loved Me and Dr. No.

ANSWER: James Bond [accept Agent 007]

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Lower Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	Y	6	16.67	100%	50%	17%
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Overflow	2025-02-01	Y	5	16.00	100%	60%	0%
Pacific Northwest	2025-02-01	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
South Central	2025-02-01	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
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