Bonus
A writer in this language was blacklisted in her home country after publishing a novel that retold a student uprising from seven perspectives. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this language used to write the novels Human Acts and We Do Not Part. In an International Booker Prize-winning novel in this language, a video artist seeks to capture his sister-in-law’s “Mongolian mark.”
ANSWER: Korean [or Hanguk-eo] (The novel is The Vegetarian.)
[10e] The 2017 ousting of Park Geun-hye (“gun-HEH”) ended the Korean government’s blacklisting of authors like Han Kang, who in 2024 followed Annie Ernaux in being a female winner of this literary award.
ANSWER: Nobel Prize in Literature
[10h] The sci-fi novel Counterweight, written by an anonymous Korean author who uses this author’s first name as a pseudonym, was translated into English in 2023. This author’s best-known novel depicts the obsessive lesbian relationship between Nora Flood and Robin Vote.
ANSWER: Djuna Barnes [prompt on Djuna] (The novel is Nightwood.)
<UNC A, World Literature>
| Editions | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 62 | 15.16 | 89% | 57% | 7% |
Conversion
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| California | 2025-02-01 | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 67% | 33% |
| Florida | 2025-02-01 | 3 | 3.33 | 33% | 0% | 0% |
| Great Lakes | 2025-02-01 | 6 | 11.67 | 83% | 33% | 0% |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | 6 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| Midwest | 2025-02-01 | 6 | 13.33 | 83% | 50% | 0% |
| North | 2025-02-01 | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 33% | 33% |
| Northeast | 2025-02-01 | 5 | 18.00 | 100% | 80% | 0% |
| Overflow | 2025-02-01 | 5 | 16.00 | 80% | 60% | 20% |
| South Central | 2025-02-01 | 2 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| Southeast | 2025-02-01 | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| UK | 2025-02-01 | 10 | 16.00 | 90% | 60% | 10% |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | 7 | 15.71 | 86% | 71% | 0% |
| Upstate NY | 2025-02-01 | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |