1. An early novel by this author tells the story of Robin Fennel and Katherine Lind, and is entitled A
Girl in Winter. In another of this man’s works, a poster advertising a resort town is defaced, and
replaced with the words “Fight Cancer”. He ranted against John Coltrane, and modernism in
general, in the review collection All What Jazz, In addition to writing the poem “Sunny Prestalyn”, he
claimed that (*) “sexual intercourse began in nineteen sixty-three”, which was “a little too late for me”, in
“Annus Mirabilis” and depicted the effigy of a nobleman and his wife in “An Arundel Tomb”, the final
poem from The Whitsun Weddings. However, he may be best known for a poem from High Windows which
talks about “fools in old-style hats and coats” and how “man hands on misery to man”. For 10 points, name
this cranky British poet whose lyric “This Be The Verse” famously claimed that “they fuck you up, your
mum and dad”.
ANSWER: Philip Larkin
2. The protagonist of this novel believes that the weather is controlled by black magic which always
targets him, and the protagonist’s grandmother comes to him as a ghost to whisper of her fears
regarding the doomed fates of her daughter and granddaughter. The protagonist relates how while
sodomizing his wife he was interrupted by a phone call informing him of his sister’s suicide attempt
with in a roadside Howard Johnson’s. Traveling to visit that sister, Susan, the protagonist of this work
hitchhikes from New York to Massachusetts along with his infant son in a sling carrier and his wife Phyllis,
and he recounts how both of the Isaacsons are executed in the electric chair for treason. Reworking the
figures of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg as the parents of the title character, for 10 points, name this biblically
titled novel by E. L. Doctorow.
ANSWER: The Book of Daniel
3. One character in this novel is described as being “loved and courted by all the dogs and cats” but
rejected by all the humans; that woman, Mary, is the sister of Eliza and daughter of the wellmeaning vicar, whom the main character all but ignores, Michael Millward. The protagonist is
initially courted by the boring Mr. Boarham, and her course of life causes Mr. Hattersley to treat his
wife, Millicent Hargrave, better. One character in this work dies when he drinks a bottle of wine
after falling from a horse; he had earlier had an affair with Annabella Lowborough and lives at
Grassdale Manor. The protagonist is believed to be having an affair with Frederick Lawrence, who is
actually her brother. The main character’s lies are exposed when a journal explaining her earlier life is
found by a farmer named Gilbert Markham, whom she later marries. Ending with the main character’s
return to Staningly Hall after the death of her first husband, Arthur Huntingdon, for 10 points, name this
novel about the so-called Helen Graham, who takes up lodging at the title location, a novel by Anne
Brontë.
ANSWER: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
4. One incident in this book ends with a character kneeling on a pitcher’s mound and proclaiming
“Oh God,” after following a man on a train whom he believes to be both God and his missing father
because the man is missing one earlobe. In another part of this book, a child who believes that she is
about to be put into a small box by a malevolent figure is calmed down by hearing a story about two
bears in a bullying relationship, who become friends after a trade involving salmon. One character in
this book speculates that the protagonist of Jack London’s “To Build a Fire” wanted to die and talks
about the meaning of bonfires with Miyake. The limousine driver Nimit takes one character in this
book to a fortune teller, who instructs Satsuki to dream of a snake in order to get a stone out of her
body. A predicted underground battle with a hate-absorbing worm in this book never comes to pass,
and Katagiri is covered with insects after confronting the amphibian which foretold such a fight. The
first character described in this book is given a free one-week vacation in exchange for a delivering a
package to the sister of one of his coworkers at the electronics store, after his wife leaves him a note
accusing him of being a “chunk of air” as the reason for leaving him, but traumatic memories of the
(*) title phenomenon causes that character to become impotent with Shimao. Including “Landscape with
Flatiron,” “All God’s Children Can Dance,” “Thailand,” “Honey Pie,” “UFO in Kushiro,” and “Super-Frog
Saves Tokyo,” this book takes place in the weeks after a January 1995 event in Kobe. For 10 points, name
this short story cycle by Haruki Murakami about a natural disaster.
ANSWER: After the Quake [or Kami no kodomo tachi wa mina odoru]
5. In one poem, this author wrote that the title figure was "too rapid for the eye to cage",
characterized by "contagious gems of virtuosity" and "jewels of mobility", while another of this
author's poems conjures a taxi driver who claims "They/ Make some fine young men at Harvard."
Besides "Arthur Mitchell" and "In the Public Garden", one poem condemns the Egyptians for
raising "dog-cats" and remarks on the title beings, who live in "“a shining silver house/ of sand."
Light "split like spun glass" illuminates "the turquoise sea of bodies" and the title figure swims
"through black jade" in another poem. She also wrote of a place where (*) "Dürer would have seen a
reason for living" in a poem whose title character is C.J Poole, "The Steeple-Jack", and besides animal
themed works like "The Jerboa" and "The Fish", one of her works demands for inspection ""imaginary
gardens with real toads in them" from "literalists of the imagination." That work claims "there are things
that are important beyond all this fiddle" and begins "I, too, dislike it." For 10 points, name this author of
"Poetry."
ANSWER: Marianne Moore
6. One of his stories describes a well-educated man who opts to work as a person who announces the
title phrase in the railway. A prominent work of satire written by him is narrated through the
perspective of Aunt Milla's nephew and describes the decay of Uncle Franz. In addition to "This is
Tibten" and "Christmas Not Just Once a Year," one of his title characters spends a night with a girl
in a haystack in his story "Kumpel."The protagonist of one of his stories recognizes the title
inscription on a blackboard after confirming that he has been brought to his school, but silently
whispers "Milk" after he discovers that his limbs have been amputated. In addition to "Stranger,
Bear Word to the Spartans We…," his stories "That Time We Were in Odessa" and "Children Are
Civilians Too" describe the experiences of soldiers in World War II, exemplifying his style of
(*)"Rubble literature." He also wrote a novel about a woman who becomes a target of media
sensationalism, causing her to kill Werner Totges. For 10 points, identify this author who wrote The Lost
Honor of Katharina Blum.
ANSWER: Heinrich Theodor Boll
7. This character exchanges her first vows of love at St. Margaret’s Festival, and one of this
character’s friends is killed by Bentein after Bentein sexually harasses this character. This
character’s brother-in-law is killed after having his arm slashed mediating a bar fight, and she dies
along with two of her seven sons after entering a convent. This character’s husband is forced to
forfeit all of his lands for his part in a conspiracy to overthrow the child king (*) Magnus VII, and she
first meets the witch-wife Lady Aashild when she is called upon to help raise her crippled sister Ulvhild.
After rejecting her betrothed Simon Andresson, this character, who ultimately contracts the Black Death,
marries her true love Erlend Nikulausson, whom she moves with to Husaby. Appearing in The Bridal
Wreath, The Wife, and The Cross, for 10 points, name this title character of a trilogy by Sigrid Undset.
ANSWER: Kristin Lavransdatter [accept either name]
8. In this novel, one character invokes his Uncle James to defend his business judgment after offering
another an investment of thirty thousand dollars, and another character angrily tells the protagonist
of a proposed marriage between Mr. Wemmel and his typist Z’rilla. The protagonist sends free
wares to a reporter who writes a favorable article about him, and refuses to (*) sell property to a group
of businessmen from England out of his private knowledge that its value is overestimated. The
protagonist’s eldest daughter Penelope eventually marries his employee Tom Corey, and he has a falling
out with his former partner Milton Rogers after being forced to sell out by the railroad companies and
going bankrupt. For 10 points, name this novel following the decline of the titular paint magnate, a work of
William Dean Howells.
ANSWER: The Rise of Silas Lapham
9. The epigraph of this story is wrongly attributed to Arthur Murphy’s All in the Wrong, though it’s
very similar to Floreville’s lines from Frederick Reynolds’ The Dramatist. That epigraph talks about
a madman who has been bitten by a tarantula. The narrator of this work is confused as to why Jupe
arrives at his place with brand new scythes and later on, it is revealed that Jupe is unable to
differentiate between his right and left eyes after he is instructed to drop the title object through the
eye of a (*) skull. Fortuitously, the narrator of this work extends his arms towards a fire as he caresses
Wolf, which allows for a Death’s Head to be revealed on a piece of parchment. The narrator’s friend then
decodes a cipher which leads him to Bessop’s Castle, after which he discovers a huge tulip tree under
which a treasure is buried. For 10 points, identify this short story wherein William Legrand discovers the
lost treasure of Captain Kidd using a shiny metallic insect, written by Edgar Allen Poe.
ANSWER: “The Gold Bug”
10. This work’s speaker hums Tennyson’s “Song From Maud” and Rosetti’s “A Birthday” between
the lavish lunch and plain dinner that set up its central contrast. In its final section, that speaker
rejoices over the phrase “Chloe liked Olivia,” found in the invented novel Life’s Adventure by Mary
Carmichael, as an example of the kind of work she would like to see. Beginning by describing a
failure to get into the British Museum, this essay also claims that (*) Charlotte Bronte too easily let her
personal circumstances penetrate her writing, and that George Eliot committed verbal atrocities by using a
masculine sentence--as opposed to Jane Austen’s creation of a feminine one--to show how circumstances
alter writing. For 10 points, name this essay prepared as a lecture for Girton and Newnham Colleges, which
notes the necessity of both five hundred a year and the title space for women to write, by Virginia Woolf.
ANSWER: A Room of One’s Own
11. This author said that one lover had “honeyed eyes” in one work, and in another, he steals a kiss
“sweeter than sweet ambrosia” from that lover. In one poem, this author asks his friend to bring him
entertainment and a meal in exchange for a perfume that would make him wish he were all nose.
Another poem asks his detractors, “do you think I am not a real man?” in reference to an earlier
poem, where he asked a lover to kiss him a thousand and a hundred times repeatedly until losing count.
That later poem is addressed to two men whom this poet says he will sodomize and mouth-fuck, Aurelius
and Furius. Another work begins “Wandering through many countries and over many seas / I come” before
describing his brother’s funeral, ending with the words “hail and farewell.” The lover of Juventius and odd
meters like hendecasyllabics, for 10 points, name this Roman poet who wrote Ave Atque Vale and some
poems to Lesbia.
ANSWER: Gaius Valerius Catullus
12. One character in this play claims that "he's seen an ass and a mule trot the Spanish pavin with
better grace" after watching his dim-witted master dance, while another character declares that "a
life of pleasure is Elysium," just before he receives a letter written in blood. The husband of one
character pretends to be a doctor after faking his death to spy on his wife; that character is
Richardetto, whose wife Hippolita herself was mistress to the title character's husband. The title
character rejects (*) Donado's simple-minded nephew Bergetto. Vasques learns of the title character's
secret from her tutor, Putana, while earlier, the title character confesses about her condition to Friar
Bonaventura. The title character's husband is also violently murdered after her heart is displayed on a
dagger by her brother. For 10 points, identify this play wherein Annabella has an incestuous relationship
with Giovanni, written by John Ford.
ANSWER: 'Tis Pity She's a Whore
13. This man becomes angry while brushing his beard and throws the brush across the room,
proclaiming that the bristles will bleed when he is harmed. This character spends several years living
on an island of women, arriving there in the shape of an eagle and later leaving with Tiera on a
mission of revenge. An attempt to use ale adulterated with snake venom to kill this man fails. His
tasks include capturing an elk and putting a bridle on a gelding, but when he fails in his (*) third task,
he must be treated with seven vessels of honey from the Turi cups, brought by a magic bee. He abandons
his first wife Kyllikki after she goes to a dance without him, and he is later reassembled by his mother from
the pieces at the bottom of a river after being killed by the shepherd Soppy Hat during an attempt to capture
the swan of Tuonela. For 10 points, name this character who thus fails in his attempt to marry a daughter of
Louhi in the Kalevala.
ANSWER: Lemminkäinen [or Kaukomieli; or Ahti]
14. At the beginning of this work, the protagonist is compared to a solitary bird, and another
character sings a song about how all women are like mules. In one section, a white person with a
dancing monkey gets rounded up with the main character. One character in this book had a tutor
who robbed him of the inheritance his aunt left him, and another was wrongly accused of murder,
and insisted others not to follow the law; those two are the sons of the protagonist. One character dies
by nursing the chief of an Indian tribe ravaged with smallpox. The main character did not (*) vote for
the Justice of the Peace, and eventually ends up with the father of Picardia, whom he later meets in the
same place as a black man, whose brother he had killed. This happens years after he escaped from
conscription with Cruz, and this work ends with the title character laying down his guitar on the Pampas.
For 10 points, name this gaucho epic poem by José Hernández.
ANSWER: El Gaucho Martín Fierro [do not accept La Vuelta de Martín Fierro]
15. This is the name of the protagonist of a novel who works at the Home Management Company, is
married to a woman named Beatrice, and waits to become a baseball star. In addition to being the
name of the protagonist of Barry Beckham's novel Runner Mack, this name is held by the author of a
book which pleads for “ten minutes to accustom our eyes to the light" and discusses the theological
work of Abelard in relation to its production of multiplicity. In a more famous work by that author
with this name, Jay Gould attempts to obtain a corner on the gold market and (*) Charles Sumner
attempts to provoke war with Canada, while the protagonist of that novel teaches medieval history at
Harvard and Cambridge. For ten points, identify this name which labels a man who discussed dynamos in a
book about his own Education, a notable American historian.
ANSWER: Henry Adams
16. Denis Hillier and Edwin Roper are foils in this man’s Soviet spy novel Tremor of Intent, and the
pompous title character Francis Xavier writes poems while taking dumps in a series of novel by this
writer, the first of which was published under the pseudonym Joseph Knell. His first three published
works were collected into a trilogy sometimes called The Long Day Wanes, but is better known for a
work that begins “It was the afternoon of my 81st birthday” and centers on a writer named Kenneth
Toomey. He also wrote novels based on William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe titled (*)
Nothing Like the Sun and A Dead Man in Deptford, respectively. His magnum opus follows a group of
boys who frequent the Korova Milkbar and who are lead by a fifteen-year old who loves Beethoven. For 10
points, name this English author of the Inside Mr. Enderby, Malayan Trilogy, Earthly Powers, and a
dystopian novel in which the Ludovico Technique alters Alex, titled A Clockwork Orange.
ANSWER: John Anthony Burgess Wilson [accept either]
17. In the introduction to the latest edition of this work, the author tracks its influence through
speeches by people like Isidore Geoffrey Saint-Hilaire and Jean-Louis Naudin. Janet Browne wrote a
“biography” of this work, which is preceded by three epigraphs, from the Bridgewater Treatise, the
Analogy of Revealed Religion, and the Advancement of Learning, by William Whewell, Joseph Butler,
and Francis Bacon. This work, the subject of a work about Peter and Rosemary Grant by Jonathan
Weiner, discusses the instincts of slave-making ants and cell-making honeybees in one chapter, while
another discusses the (*) domestication and breeding of pigeons. This work disputed the conclusions of
William Paley’s Natural Theology, and improved upon Zoological Philosophy by Jean-Baptiste Lamarck.
Forced into publication by a similar work of Alfred Russell Wallace, for 10 points, name this book that put
forth natural selection and other tenets of evolution, written by Charles Darwin.
ANSWER: On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured
Races in the Struggle for Life
18. One play by this author begins with Harald discussing his discontent with the local newspaper
with the wealthy distiller whose daughter Gertrud he is engaged to. In another play by this author,
the lawyer Berent repeatedly harasses the protagonist with the reality of his financial overextension
during a series of legal proceedings. This author of the novels Trust and Trial and A Happy Boy also
wrote the plays When the New Wine Blooms, The Editor, Sigurd the Bad, and the aforementioned play
about the title character Tjaelde, The Bankrupt. This author’s novels include one in which the protagonist’s
father Nils has his back broken in a barn fight with Baard Boen and one in which Hans Odegaard is the
only true love of the protagonist Petra. For 10 points, name this author of Arne, The Fisher Maiden, and
Beyond Our Power, a native of Norway.
ANSWER: Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
19. When this character complains that the Sunday Observance bills prevent the poor from eating
once a week, he hears in response that its sponsors “are as strange to us and all our kith and kin, as if
they had never lived.” The only person who feels emotion at his death is Caroline, who sees it as an
opportunity to delay paying debts; meanwhile, the laundress Mrs. Dilber agrees with the fence Joe
Hoggs that if he didn’t want to have his things looted after death, he should’ve been “natural” while
alive. Though Dick Wilkins is his friend in youth, the eventual husband of his one-time fiancée Belle
notes that he becomes alone in the world after his partner’s death. He is described as a savage and
unpleasant animal in a guessing game by his nephew (*) Fred, though he is later toasted for providing
holiday merriment. At another dinner, his employee’s toast to him casts a shadow over children Peter,
Martha, Belinda, and Tim, though he finally becomes like a “second father” to the latter after raising that
employee’s salary when he comes in late on the 26th. For 10 points, name this colleague of Old Fezziwig
and Jacob Marley from “A Christmas Carol.”
ANSWER: Ebenezer Scrooge
20. The narrator argues that, despite what The Blason of Colors says, this man’s colors white and
blue represent joy and heaven, rather than faith and firmness. He named the town of Beauce after a
battle fought between a swarm of hornets and his mare, and once inadvertently killed six pilgrims
caught in his garden when he wanted lettuce. Originally appearing in an anonymous chapbook as the
servant of King Arthur, his first words upon birth were (*) “Come, drink, drink, drink,” though his
son’s more eventful birth involved 68 muleteers and 16 camels. He infuriated Janotus de Bragmardo by
stealing the bells of Notre Dame, defeated the army of Picrochole, and then, with his ally the Monk,
founded the do-what-thou-will Abbey of Thélème, having earlier given Paris its name by drowning it in his
urine. For 10 points, name this son of Grandgousier and Gargamelle, the father of Pantagruel written about
by Francois Rabelais.
ANSWER: Gargantua
Tiebreaker. In the beginning of this work, the protagonist receives a train ticket, five dollars, and a
cigar and returns to a café. There, Mike Dolan apologizes to him and he goes upstairs and grabs a
dusty suitcase hidden in the wall. The protagonist only sees Ben Price face-to-face in the last scene,
when Ben tells him, “I don't believe I recognize you, Mr. Spencer.” The protagonist settles in a small
town in Arkansas, where he starts a (*) shoe business and attracts Miss Annabel Adams under the guise
of a fake name. On the verge of throwing away his criminal past, he must revert back to his old ways when
a young girl gets stuck in a bank vault. For 10 points, a safe-cracker named Jimmy Valentine gets out of
prison, finds love, and saves the day in what short story by O. Henry?
ANSWER: “A Retrieved Reformation”