This Tournament Goes To Eleven III:  Smell The Glove
Hosted by the University of Iowa, October 12-13, 2001
Literature A-Z (by Shelly Mills and Gina Hawk [Grinnell])

MOD:  If they ask…yes, a letter could come up once in the toss-ups and once in the boni.  Yes, answers can be works rather than authors, but it still eliminates the first letter of the author’s last name.  *-Matt helped  **-Matt wrote it himself  ***-Frank wrote it himself

1.  Called one of the great modern playwrights, his most recent play is Broken Glass. However, he is most well known for his earlier works, including a famous critique of McCarthyism, and a family drama about sacrifice set on the backdrop of World War II. FTP, name this playwright, once married to Marilyn Monroe, most famous for Death of A Salesman.

Athur Miller 

2*.  Born Neftal Reyes Basoalto, he adopted his better known name legally in 1946.  As a diplomat, he was posted in Spain, where he founded a literary magazine with Federico Garcia Lorca. A member of the Communist Party, he was elected a senator in Chile, eventually fleeing the country. Well known works include Canto general, Odes elementales, and Twenty Love Songs and a Poem of Despair.  FTP, name this poet and Nobel Laureate, the subject of the film Il Postino.

Pablo Neruda 

3**.  The poor women of Canterbury who make up the chorus nervously await Thomas’ return from his seven-year exile, fretting over his volatile relationship with King Henry II.  Thomas arrives and must resist four temptations:  worldly pleasures, lasting power as chancellor, recognition as a leader of the barons, and eternal glory as a martyr.  After his Christmas sermon, he is ordered by four knights to leave the kingdom - when he does not, they return and slay him.  FTP, identify this poetic drama in two parts by T.S. Eliot.

Murder in the Cathedral

4*.  A summer job as “guest managing editor” at Mademoiselle magazine, and subsequent breakdown, is seen as the source material for her most famous prose work, but she is better known for her poetry, including “Black Rook in Rainy Weather” and “The Bee Meeting,” and “Tulips,” all collected in the posthumous collection Ariel.  FTP, name this poet who left Ted Hughes a widow, the author of “The Bell Jar” and “Daddy”

Sylvia Plath 

5.  An aspiring screenwriter, she got her first job in Hollywood on her second day there as an extra in the Cecil B. DeMille movie “King of Kings,” and within a week met her husband, Frank O’Connor. She is much more well known for her novels than her screenplay “Red Pawn”. Her first novel, We the Living, was a semi-autobiographical account of Soviet tyranny. For ten points, name this author, the founder of Objectivism and author of Atlas Shrugged.

Ayn Rand 

6.  This tale, published in 1943, carries an eerie parallel with its author’s disappearance over the Mediterranean Sea during a reconnaissance mission a year later. The protagonist is a pilot downed in the Sahara Desert, who is approached by the title character and asked to draw a sheep. This leads to the title character’s detailing his trek from planet to planet, and the characters he met upon that journey, including a king, a businessman, and a lamplighter. It was originally published in the native French of Antoine Saint-Exupéry, and is a beloved children’s fable.

The Little Prince or (Le Petit Prince) 

7.  Born of a noble family in Russia, he had the nickname “the Bear”. He studied law at Kazan University, but never finished his degree. He joined the army and wrote the first of his autobiographical trilogy, Childhood. His novels most famously deal with his vision of war, notably in his Sevastopol Tales, as well as his most famous work, which was initially about the Decembrist uprising of 1925, but eventually encompassed much more Russian history (and many more pages). For ten points, name this author of War and Peace and Anna Karenina.

Leo Tolstoy  

8**.  The title character is born and lives much of her life at the Marshalsea prison, where her father is imprisoned for debt.  She earns meager wages at jobs outside the prison - one of those jobs being seamstress to Mrs. Clennam, whose son Arthur eventually helps free our heroine from the prison.  FTP, identify this critique of the English penal system and debtor’s prisons in general, an 1857 novel by Charles Dickens.

Little Dorrit 

9.  Born in India, but raised in England, he joined the Indian Imperial Police but later left it to become a writer. He then wrote his first novel, Down and Out In London and Paris, and chose his pen name for a Suffolk river. He fought in the Spanish Civil War, and did not write his most famous works until the time of World War II. For ten points, name this author of Animal Farm and 1984

George Orwell 

10*.  The Abbey Theater opened in 1899 with a production of his The Countess Cathleen, but he is better known as a poet than a dramatist.  His poetry features the juxtaposition of opposites, as in his line “A terrible beauty is born.” Many of his poems were inspired by his lifelong unrequited love, Maude Gonne, whose husband is a central figure in his masterpiece poem Easter 1916. FTP, identify this Irish Nobel laureate, the author of The Second Coming. 

William Butler Yeats 
    
11*.  This satirist served in the US Air Force in WWII, and was a prisoner of war in Dresden, an experience which inspired his most famous work.  He wrote many plays, including Happy Birthday, Wanda June, but is known primarily as a novelist, beginning his career in 1952 with the publication of Player Piano.  FTP, name this Saab dealer and author of Cat’s Cradle and Slaughterhouse Five.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr. 
 
12.  He began his literary career as a journalist, and by writing “hack” novels such as the temperance novel Franklin Evans. After being dismissed from the Brooklyn Eagle, he moved to the South, which inspired his later poetry, for which he received much acclaim. 12 poems, including “Sleepers” were collected in his famous volume Leaves of Grass. For Ten Points, name this poet, author of “Song of Myself” and “I Sing The Body Electric”

Walt Whitman 

13**.  Mink is a murderer.  Wesley is a pedophile.  I.O. is a bigamist.  Ike lusts after cattle, and Launcelot - Lump - sells tickets to view the spectacle.  First appearing in The Hamlet, their verminlike rapacity is contrasted with the failing old order of the Sartoris clan.  FTP, identify these new scions of Frenchman’s Bend, Mississippi, whose familial power is garnered by the clan patriarch, Flem.

Snopes  

14*.  His first major novel, Therese Raquin, was a naturalistic “experiment” about two lovers killing the man between them slowly being undone by their guilt.  He followed this with the Rougon-MacQuart Cycle, Germinal, and La Bet Humaine.  However, he is better known for his championship of the cause of Alfred Dreyfus and the open letter J‘Accuse.  FTP, name this novelist, whose life was made into an Oscar-winning film in 1937.

Emile Zola  

15*.  When we first encounter him, he is the lonely grandson of a rich old man next door to the title characters.  His tutor ends up married to Meg, he proposes to Jo and is turned down, and finally marries Amy.  For ten points, name the playful neighbor of the March family in Little Women.

Laurie or Theodore Lawrence (Accept Theodore or Lawrence)  

16**.  “Memorabilia,” “Love Among the Ruins,” “A toccata of Galuppi’s,” “How It Strikes a Contemporary,” “Abt Vogler,” “Mr. Sludge, ‘The Medium’,” Pippa Passes, Fra Lippo Lippi, Bishop Bloughram’s Apology, Caliban Upon Setebos, Rabbi Ben Ezra, and My Last Duchess are among the works of, FTP, what Victorian poet of The Ring and The Book and The Pied Piper of Hamelin?

Robert Browning  

17*.  Taking place in 1757, it is a two-volume fictional work set during the French & Indian War.  The principal character, Natty Bumppo, is in middle-age, and the novel tells of his battles with the Iroquois and their French allies.  The second novel of The Leather Stocking Tales, this is, FTP, what popular novel by James Fenimore Cooper?

The Last of the Mohicans:  A Narrative of 1757  

18*.  Her husband, Sir Clifford, is a wealthy landowner who is paralyzed from the waist down and is absorbed in his books and in his estate, Wragby.  Outwardly alive and inwardly paralyzed, the chronicle of her awakening affair with Oliver Mellors meant that the novel in which she is the central character, finished in 1928, was not published in full in English until 1959.  FTP, name the D. H. Lawrence character, whose sexual liaisons with the estate gamekeeper made this one of the last books to be banned in America.

Constance or Connie Chatterley

19**.  Michel marries Marceline, a family friend, to cheer his dying father and provide for his own needs.  While recovering from tuberculosis in North Africa, he finds himself drawn sexually to young Arab boys.  Back in France a friend urges him to ignore convention and divulge his passions.  While his wife develops tuberculosis, he neglects her in order to fulfill his own desires.  FTP, identify this 1902 novella by Andr Gide.

The Immoralist or L’Immoraliste

20**.  Eyvind wrote Bobinack and “Rain at Daybreak,” and shared the 1974 Nobel prize with Harry Martinson.  Lionel was an English poet who was the first to write a solid critique of Thomas Hardy, and whose poems were edited by Ezra Pound.  Colin is the premiere Aboriginal Australian author, whose works include Wild Cat Falling and Long Live Sandawara.  FTP, identify the surname these authors share with James Weldon, who wrote Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man, and Ben, who wrote Every Man In His Humor.

Johnson  

21.  Her birth marked the public and private damnation of many and the opening of one of America’s most recognizable stories of forbidden love.  For ten points, name the precious daughter that proved the guilt of Hester in Hawthorne’s classic novel.

Pearl Prynne

Bonus Questions

1*.  We begin with the end.  Answer the following about a “Z”, 15-10-5.

15:  This Russian novelist, playwright, and satirist, one of the greatest writers of the pre-Revolutionary period, is known for such works as A Provincial Tale, At The World’s End, and The Islanders. 

Yevgeny Zamyatin

10:  This 1924 novel, Zamyatin’s masterpiece, portrays life in the “Single State,” where workers live in glass houses, have numbers instead of names, wear uniforms, eat chemical foods, and enjoy rationed sex.

My or We
 
5:  My was the first novel of this genre, whose other entries include novels such as Brave New World and 1984.

Anti-Utopian  (Prompt on Futurist or any such future answer)

2***. 30-20-10, identify the author given works.

30: I’m Crazy; De Daumier-Smith’s Blue Period
20: Hapworth 16, 1924; Teddy
10: Franny and Zooey; The Catcher in the Rye

Jerome David “J.D.” Salinger

3.  As a child, many of us enjoyed the “Baby-Sitter’s Club” series, written by Ann M. Martin. 

a)  For five points each, name the four original members of the club.

Kristy (Thomas), Mary Anne (Spier), Stacey (McGill), Claudia (Kishi) (Accept either name)

b) F5PE, name the town and state where the stories took place.

Stoneybrook, Connecticut

4*.  30-20-10-5, name the playwright

30:  Summer and Smoke, Period of Adjustment
20:  Clothes for a Summer Hotel, Sweet Bird of Youth
10:  Orpheus Descending, Night of the Iguana
5:  The Glass Menagerie

Tennessee Williams

5**.	30-20-10-5 Name the Author

30:  The Leaning Tower; The Never Ending Wrong
20:  The Days Before; “Noon Wine,” “Old Mortality”
10:  Flowering Judas; Pale Horse, Pale RiderHeart
5:  Ship of Fools

Katherine Anne Porter

6*.	A question about the misfit letters… For 15 Points Each

a)  This Athenian’s works include On Horsemanship, Cavalry Officer, On Hunting, Cyropaedia, and the Anabasis.

Xenophon

b)  “She” was actually two cousins, who created the character to win a writing contest, and would appear in public behind masks as the character/author. They later created the penname Barnaby Ross, who was later “revealed” to be the original author.

Ellery Queen

7*.  Name the playwright, 30-20-10-5

30:  In The Zone, Bound East For Cardiff
20:  Ah, Wilderness!, Hairy Ape 
10:  Beyond the Horizon, Anna Christie
5:  Long Day’s Journey Into Night, The Iceman Cometh

Eugene O’Neill

8.  From the synopsis, name the Amy Tan work, ten each.

a)  A group of women who gather together to play Mah-Jong, and their stories, as well as their daughters’.

The Joy-Luck Club

b)  Olivia and her psychic sister Kwan travel to China to visit the village Kwan grew up in and explore their connection to the “yin people” that Kwan tells stories about.

The Hundred Secret Senses

c)  Upon the prompting of Auntie Helen, Winnie tells her daughter Pearl her story of a bad marriage in China, and her travels to America, finally letting go of many hidden secrets.

The Kitchen God’s Wife

9.  Sci Fi time! I’ll give you the premise of the Jules Verne novel, you give me its name.

a)  A hot air balloon blows off course, crashes, and Captain Nemo saves its passengers from pirates.

The Mysterious Island

b)  A hot air balloon doesn’t blow off course (much), as Philaes Fogg goes on an adventure on a bet, which includes saving a woman from ritual immolation, all the while being chased by a detective.

Around the World in Eighty Days

c)  No hot air balloons in this one, because who needs one when you’ve got a mysterious aquatic beast that actually turns out to be a submarine? 

20,000 Leagues Under The Sea

10*.  Answer these questions about the author Salman Rushdie, 5-10-15.

5:  For what novel was Rushdie given a death sentence?

The Satanic Verses

10:  What is the word used for this death sentence?

Fatwa

15:  One of  Rushdie’s most recent novels , it is a retelling of the Orpheus and Euridice myth set in a rock and roll group?

The Ground Beneath Her Feet

11*. 30-20-10, name the author

30:  A final novel, Sanditon, remained unfinished at this author’s death.
20:  Another novel, The Watsons, was abandoned in 1804 after her novel Lady Susan was not published.
10:  Lady Susan was renamed Northanger Abbey and would be published after her death in 1817.

Jane Austen

12*.  Oh Bronte!  F5PE, given the book, name the Bronte who wrote it.  5 point bonus for running the table.

The Professor			Charlotte
Jane Eyre 			Charlotte
Wurthering Heights		Emily
Villette				Charlotte
Agnes Grey			Anne

13*. 30-20-10 Given works, name the author
 
30: The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar, The Gremlins
20:  You Only Live Twice
10:  Matilda, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
	
Roald Dahl

14. For ten points each, name the Dr. Seuss book in which these characters appear, ten each.

A)  Sam I Am				Green Eggs and Ham
B)  Sylvester McMonkey McBean		The Sneetches
C)  Cindy Lou Who			How the Grinch Stole Christmas

15*.  FTPE, given the book, name the authors who may or may not be related.

Eyeless in Gaza				Aldous Huxley
Tess of the D’Ubbervilles			Thomas Hardy
The Man Who Came To Dinner		Moss Hart
The Ways of White Folks			Langston Hughes
The House with Seven Gables		Nathanial Hawthorne

16. 30-20-10 Given short stories, name the author.

30:  “The Sundial”
20:  “The Haunting of Hill House”
10:  “The Lottery”

Shirley Jackson

17***. He lived in Prague, he wrote in German, he created Gregor Samsa. F5P, name him.

Franz Kafka

Shortly before Kafka wrote this book, he read a description of Casanova’s time spent in a Venice prison. Inspired by that man’s struggle for justice, he wrote Der Prozess. FTP, give its English title.

The Trial

Before he died, Kafka told this friend to burn all his manuscripts. Somehow, this guy heard that as, “Hey, dude, edit my stuff and publish it.” F15P, name him.

Max Brod

18**.  Lolita, sweet Lolita.  Identify the following works of Vladimir Nabokov, none of which are Lolita, for ten each.

A)  This autobiography describes his happy childhood in an aristocratic family in St. Petersburg, as well as his years at Cambridge and his time as an intellectual and fledgling writer in Berlin and Paris.

Speak, Memory

B)  Cincinnatus is a former teacher who has been convicted of “gnostic turpitude” for being different from his mediocre fellow countrymen.  Sentenced to be executed, he sits in his cell and records his private thoughts and intuitions about an ideal world he considers to be his “true” home.

Invitation to a Beheading

C)  Franz works in his rich uncle Dreyer’s store.  Out of boredom Dreyer’s wife, Martha, seduces Franz.  They plot to drown Dreyer and marry, but Martha learns that one of Dreyer’s inventions will make them rich.  She decides to stay with Dreyer, but dies abruptly of pneumonia.  Sniffle.

King, Queen, Knave

19**.  Answer the following about an English lyrical poet, critic, and philosopher.

A)  Identify this man whose Lyrical Ballads, written with William Wordsworth, heralded the English Romantic movement.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

B)  Published in Lyrical Ballads, it begins with the description of a silent night and proceeds through the relationship between the quiet work of the titular phenomenon and the quiet breathing of the silent baby at the poet’s side.

Frost At Midnight

C)  Published with Kubla Khan, the title character is the innocent daughter of Sir Leoline.  While praying in the woods, she encounters Geraldine, who says she is the daughter of Lord Roland, but is actually a supernatural creature.  Forced into silence by magic, when she finally speaks, her father doesn’t believe her.

Christabel

20*.  The end is nigh!  Of the packet, that is.  We already did Z.  Let’s swing around and do A…A…Atticus…Atticus Finch!  For five points each, first, name Atticus Finch’s two children in To Kill a Mockingbird.

Scout or Jean Louise Finch, Jem 

Now, for ten, identify this boy who spent his summer with one of the Finch’s neighbors, but who was really from Meridian, Mississippi.

Dill or Charles or Charles Baker Harris

For the final ten, she was the neighbor Dill was staying with for the summer.

Aunt Rachel