Question

In one of these places, a novel’s narrator puzzles over a “boggy, soggy, squitchy picture” in a “thoroughly besmoked” oil painting. A Decameron-esque collection titled for this sort of place includes multiple stories from a student, a Sicilian, and a Spanish Jew, and is set in Sudbury, Massachusetts. In a novel, an old lady cries out “clam or cod?” in one of (10[1])these places, where the narrator first meets a man smoking a tomahawk pipe. (10[1])“Paul (10[1])Revere’s Ride” appears in a collection of “Tales of” one (10[1])of these places by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. A novel’s narrator becomes “bosom-friends” with a former prince of Rokovoko at one of these places (10[1])called Spouter. (10[1])For 10 points, early chapters of Moby-Dick are set in what sort of place where Queequeg and Ishmael (-5[1])are lodgers? ■END■ (10[1]0[4])

ANSWER: inns [accept Wayside Inn or Sudbury Inn or Tales of a Wayside Inn; accept Spouter Inn; prompt on hotels or lodges]
<HG, American Literature>
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Summary

California2025-02-01Y3100%0%0%85.67
Great Lakes2025-02-01Y6100%0%17%102.17
Lower Mid-Atlantic2025-02-01Y6100%0%0%101.50
Midwest2025-02-01Y6100%0%0%88.67
Overflow2025-02-01Y5100%0%20%72.60
Pacific Northwest2025-02-01Y2100%0%0%59.00
Southeast2025-02-01Y3100%0%33%90.33
UK2025-02-01Y1070%0%10%92.00

Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Oscar O'FlanaganImperial ALSE6110
Ben LaFondCambridge BCambridge C7410
Benjamin WatsonOxford CCambridge E7510
Elliot CosnettOxford BImperial B8510
Antoni KluzowskiWarwick ABristol10810
Omer KeskinOxford ACambridge A11010
Michael WuSouthampton BCambridge D128-5
Sam HuttonCambridge DSouthampton B1310
Zayyan MahmoodSouthampton ANYU C13110
Joel CrossleyManchesterSheffield1310
Hamish CampbellDurhamWarwick B1310
Josh HowarthWarwick BDurham1310