Question
A statue of this character is unveiled at the garden party of Belle Radclyffe twenty years after he leads a trek through the wilderness. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this fictional German explorer based on the naturalist Ludwig Leichhardt. This character proposes to Laura Trevelyan in a novel by the author of Riders in the Chariot and The Vivisector.
ANSWER: Johann Ulrich Voss [or Johann Ulrich Voss]
[10e] Voss was written by Patrick White, one of this country’s most acclaimed fiction writers along with Gerald Murnane, Peter Carey, and Thomas Keneally.
ANSWER: Australia [or Commonwealth of Australia]
[10h] This Australian-born author’s scientist characters include the astronomer Ted Tice from her novel The Transit of Venus. This author won the Miles Franklin Award and the National Book Award for The Great Fire, published after a decades-long creative silence.
ANSWER: Shirley Hazzard
<Cambridge B, World Literature>
Summary
| Florida | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 10.00 | 67% | 33% | 0% |
| Great Lakes | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 6.67 | 67% | 0% | 0% |
| Midwest | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 18.33 | 100% | 83% | 0% |
| North | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
| Northeast | 2025-02-01 | Y | 5 | 14.00 | 100% | 40% | 0% |
| Overflow | 2025-02-01 | Y | 4 | 10.00 | 75% | 25% | 0% |
| Pacific Northwest | 2025-02-01 | Y | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| South Central | 2025-02-01 | Y | 2 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| Southeast | 2025-02-01 | Y | 4 | 12.50 | 100% | 25% | 0% |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | Y | 9 | 15.56 | 100% | 56% | 0% |
| Upstate NY | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 6.67 | 67% | 0% | 0% |
Data
| Cornell B | NYU A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| George Washington A | Haverford B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Columbia C | John Jay College | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Maryland A | Johns Hopkins A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| NYU B | George Washington B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Haverford A | Penn B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Rutgers A | Penn A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Vassar A | Maryland B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Columbia B | Yale A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |