Bonus
The cast sings “Awake, you who are asleep! / We are winnowing right from wrong!” in this language at the end of Hassan Sheikh Mumin’s play Leopard Among the Women. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this language whose long oral tradition influenced the 1905 poem “Afbakayle.” An exiled author who grew up speaking this language wrote the novels Maps and From a Crooked Rib.
ANSWER: Somali [or Soomaali; or Af Soomaali]
[10m] Coercion into performing this action is central to Nuruddin Farah’s novel From a Crooked Rib and Faarax M. J. Cawl’s Somali novel Ignorance Is the Enemy of Love. A Kikuyu-language play is titled in English for doing this “When I Want.”
ANSWER: arranged marriage [or marrying or having a wedding or matrimony; accept I Will Marry When I Want] (I Will Marry When I Want is by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o and Ngũgĩ wa Mirii.)
[10e] Farah also wrote a trilogy about an “African” leader of this type. One of these people known as The Ruler assumes control of the setting of Ngũgĩ’s Wizard of the Crow, part of a genre more common in Latin American fiction.
ANSWER: dictators [accept dictator novel; accept Variations on the Theme of an African Dictatorship]
<Toronto C, World Literature>
| Editions | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 58 | 14.83 | 81% | 59% | 9% |
Conversion
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| California | 2025-02-01 | 3 | 16.67 | 67% | 100% | 0% |
| Florida | 2025-02-01 | 3 | 10.00 | 67% | 33% | 0% |
| Great Lakes | 2025-02-01 | 6 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
| Midwest | 2025-02-01 | 6 | 16.67 | 83% | 67% | 17% |
| North | 2025-02-01 | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 67% | 33% |
| Northeast | 2025-02-01 | 5 | 8.00 | 60% | 20% | 0% |
| Overflow | 2025-02-01 | 5 | 18.00 | 100% | 80% | 0% |
| South Central | 2025-02-01 | 2 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| Southeast | 2025-02-01 | 4 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| UK | 2025-02-01 | 10 | 12.00 | 70% | 50% | 0% |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | 8 | 22.50 | 88% | 100% | 38% |
| Upstate NY | 2025-02-01 | 3 | 3.33 | 33% | 0% | 0% |