As This Novel Opens, the Protagonist Watches an Indian Girl Get Kicked out of a Library
Folly & Glory – Playoff VIII: 1
1. This author modeled a poetry collection on the Divan of the Persian poet Hafiz and his disapproval of the French Revolution shone through in pro-establishment works such as The Sorcerer’s Apprentice. In a work written when he was 60, he explores the nature of free will through a foursome of characters: Charlotte, Eduard, Ottilie, and the Captain and after his death Schiller published a collection of his erotic poetry. For 10 points—name this German author of Elective Affinities, Roman Elegies and Faust.
Answer: Johann Wolfgang vonGoethe
2. Following the revolutions of 1848 this author, to whom Dickens dedicated Hard Times, attacked democracy as an absurd social ideal in the "Latter Day Pamphlets" and he later suggested that slavery should never have been abolished in "An Occasional Discourse on the Nigger Question." He was the subject of Whistler's second Arrangement in Grey and Black and his best-known work centers on the author of a tome on the origins and influence of clothing, Diogenes Teufelsdröckh. For 10 points-- name this author of an accidentally burned history of the French Revolution and Sartor Resartus.
Answer: Thomas Carlyle
3. His mother is a fortuneteller whose husband is sent to the galley that accounts for the unusual circumstances of his birth. He is the only person who doubts Monsieur Madeleine, the mayor of Monteril-sur-mer, and almost tenders his resignation upon realizing his mistake. He later moves to Paris, where he nearly infiltrates the Friends of the ABC, but is discovered by Gavroche. For 10 points-- name this character that commits suicide in the River Seine, the ruthless inspector who pursues Jean Valjean in Victor Hugo’s Les Miserables.
Answer: Inspector Javert
4. Samuel Richardson's Pamela was used as the source of this Irish Comic playwright's The Maid of the Mill. In 1772 his career was brought to a halt after his exile for sodomy, though he did achieve some prior success with the drama The Padlock. Another author by this name wrote, in 1708, “Predications for the Ensuing Year.” In that work the author predicted cobbler-astrologer John Partridge's death. For 10 points-- give this shared name, the latter of which was a nom de plume for Johnathan Swift and was later borrowed by Richard Steele in The Tatler.
Answer: Isaac Bickerstaff(e)
5. In this novel, the character Goosefoot is asked to collect a loan given out for a load of beans and Don Michele is a coast guard commander who is stabbed by a member of the titular family whose patriarch relies on local wisdom. Another member of the family, Bastianazzo, dies in a shipwreck after which his wife signs over to Uncle Crucifix her rights to the titular location. For 10 points-- name this verismo novel centering on the home (*) to the Malavoglia family, by Giovanni Verga.
Answer: The House by the Medlar Tree (accept: I Malavogliabefore *)
6. Scene six of act two of this play takes place on April 11 after a pistol shot has been fired. The cottage of one of the characters, whose clear identity is unknown until the last scene, is stacked with pages of “cabalistic” mathematical proofs that he had appropriated from his brilliant young student, Thomasina. That character is revealed at the end of the play to be Septimus Hodge, an old school chum of Lord Byron, when the housekeeper Gus shows Hannah Jarvis a sketch of the painting “Septimus holding Plautus.” For 10 points—name work of Tom Stoppard.
Answer: Arcadia
7. The main antagonist of this novel engages a solicitor named Finney and newspaperman Tom Tower, to bring to light a financial discrepancy at the central institution. The protagonist's son-in-law, Dr. Grantly, does not agree with the appropriateness of the suit brought by John Bold and insisted that the protagonist had an obligation to the church to execute the duties of his post and even makes a speech supporting Septimus Harding to the inmates. For ten points-- name this first of Anthony Trollope’s Barchester novels centering on the titular head of Hiram's Hospital.
Answer: The Warden
8. In this novel, the letters R-A-C-H-E are found scrawled on the wall after a letter from Tobias Gregson summons the main characters to the scene. Earlier we learn Stamford had introduced his Afghan war veteran friend to the main character, whom he once found beating a cadaver. Eventually the protagonist announces that Jefferson Hope is the man he was looking for and since he will soon die of an aneurism, Hope recounts his tale of murder and malevolent Mormons. For 10 points-- name this first full-length detective novel by Arthur Conan Doyle.
Answer: A Study in Scarlet
9. Parnell is the only white to attempt to contradict Jo's testimony. The drama opens in darkness with a gunshot and ends with Parnell and Juanita, a black civil rights activist, agreeing to walk in the same direction. Meridian Henry, a black minister, had advocated a non-violent civil rights approach until his son's murder prompts him to hide a gun under his pulpit Bible. Inspired by the 1955 murder of Emmett Till, For 10 points-- name this play by James Baldwin in which Lyle Britten murders Richard Henry but is acquitted by a white jury.
Answer: Blues for Mister Charlie
10. In the foreword to this poem in iambic pentameter couplets, the editor mentions that he was forced to leave New Wye after interviewing the man who murdered the author. In the fourth canto, the author is shaving and thinking about himself writing a poem about being in the bathtub, shaving, while thinking about a poem he is going to write. The larger work, in which it appears, concerns the imaginary country of Zembla and its King Charles II, who is actually the poem's editor Charles Kinbote. For 10 points name this 999-line poem, the centerpiece of a novel of the same title by Vladimir Nobokov.
Answer: Pale Fire
11. Many of the speakers in this work can be identified as former residents of Lewistown and Petersburg, Illinois. Originally published in parts in Reedy's Mirror under the name Webster Ford, the first poem is "The Hill" followed by "Hod Putt," the voice of a man hung for murder. Including a fragment of an epic by Jonathan Swift Somers, it also tells of schoolteacher Emily Sparks and Daisy Fraser, the town prostitute. For 10 points--, identify this collection of 243 free verse epitaphs by Edgar Lee Masters.
Answer: Spoon River Anthology
12. In this poem's fifth couplet, the poet remembers seeing the Pleiades "glitter like a swarm of fire-flies tangled in a silver braid." The poet makes apostrophe and it is to his lost love Amy that he addresses the poem's most familiar line, "In the Spring a young man’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love." Beginning by requesting his comrades leave him, the poem was written in trochaic meter at the suggestion of Arthur Hallam. For 10 points-- name this dramatic monologue spoken at the home of his wealthy uncle by Alfred Lord Tennyson.
Answer: “Locksley Hall”
13. Founder of the Bread and Cheese Club, his Notions of the American was a defense of the US against attacks from European travelers. He renounced novel writing In Letter to His Countrymen, following bad reviews of his second novel, The Spy. However he continued writing and produced what is considered the first sea novel, The Pilot. For 10 points-- name this author more famous for The Prairie, The Pioneers, and the other Leatherstocking Tales.
Answer: James Fenimore Cooper
14. This title character spends a summer in Provincetown at Jacob Kahn’s beachhouse. Raised in Brooklyn, he draws pictures of his memories, including his mother and his times rowing in Prospect Park. His father moves to Vienna after the death of Stalin at the request of the Rebbe, whom this character depicts as menacing in an early work. His guilt over the pain he has caused his mother Rivkeh is manifested in his masterpiece, which shows his mother crucified between him and his father. For 10 points--, identify this title character of a Chaim Potok novel.
Answer: Asher Lev
15. The prologue to Jorge Luis Borges's “Secret Miracle” is an excerpt from this work, which was first translated by Robert of Ketton. Roughly arranged such that chapters range from longest to shortest, the twelfth of its 114 chapters is drawn from Hebrew sources and retells the story of Joseph, son of Jacob. Transcribed prior to its author's death in 632 C.E., he legendarily received the text from angel Gabriel. For 10 points-- name this holy book of Islam.
Answer: Koran OR Qu'ran
16. The story begins at Canby's saloon where a game of poker erupts into a fight over Gil's good luck. The fight is interrupted by Farnley's news, leading Croft to accompany Davies' assistant Joyce to see Judge Tyler, while Gil joins the group lead by Ma Grier and Major Tetley. Despite Greene not actually seeing Kinkaid's body, the lynching mob leaves Bridger's Wells in search of the accused cattle rustlers. Ending with the hanging of three innocent men, --for 10 points-- identify this novel by William Van Tilburg Clark.
Answer: Ox-Bow Incident
17. The protagonist attempts to blame his situation on his wife claiming things would have been different if she hadn't left her people, the old Westbury, Saratoga, Palm Beach people. The protagonist feels he should have written about the long house and the Black Forest after the war, his buddy Williamson, and the rail station in Karagatch before he remembers the flight old Compton and him took to view African scenery. Harry doesn't feel the gangrene creeping down his right leg in --for 10 points--, what short story by Ernest Hemingway.
Answer: Snows of Kilimanjaro
18. One of the main characters of this novel is named after Ahura Mazda. That character’s father is an old anglophile who causes one of his sons to be mute by accidentally hitting him with a line drive at a cricket match. Although it begins with the death of one of the main characters near a tequila factory in Mexico, the novel is primarily set successively in Bombay, London, and New York, and follows the travels of the narrator and the band VTO, or Vina to Ormus. For 10 points-- name this novel chronicling the history of rock and roll through the eyes of the narrator Raj, a work of Salman Rushdie.
Answer: The Ground Beneath Her Feet
19. The protagonist of this short story notes that the first night that her husband was brought home drunk, he had the brown variety of the titular object "in his butthole." The protagonist is a mother of two with a third on the way and her husband works in the local coalmines. The culmination of the plot occurs when her husband is brought into her parlor late one night dead, and the workmen knock over a vase of the titular flowers. Centering on one night in the life of Elizabeth Bates, --for 10 points-- name this short story by D.H. Lawrence.
Answer: “Odor of Chrysanthemums”
20. In 1936 the author produced a supplementary volume called Aftermath to this work, whose best-known version was revised and edited by Theodore Gaster in 1959. The work opens on the Italian coast at Aricia where the central character waits in the grove of Diana to be murdered. Throughout the work the author seeks the meaning of life and death and uses the legend of Balder to draw his themes together and describe the idea of the priest of the sacred wood. Subtitled A Study in Magic and Religion --for 10 points-- name this anthropological classic by George Frazer.
Answer: The Golden Bough
21. This author’s memoirs are titled La Cucaña, of which the first volume is La Rosa. His short fiction includes El molino de viento and Esas nubes que pasan. His first novel, which inaugurated the “tremendismo” movement, is the memoir of the titular psychopathic killer awaiting his execution, while another work contains dozens of vignettes about life in post-civil war Spain. For 10 points name this author of The Hive and The Family of Pascual Duarte.
Answer: Camilo Jose Cela
22. One of the seminal influences on the development of modern science fiction, this man is not primarily known now for his novels, although Ralph 124C 41+ is a good early robot yarn and in 1972 his last novel The Ultimate World was published posthumously. He is remembered rather for his work as an editor of early pulp magazines, including the first radio magazine, Modern Electrics. In 1926 he founded the, Amazing Stories, and it soon included many of the outstanding early science fiction writers among its contributors. For 10 points-- give the namesake of the World Science Fiction Convention’s achievement award, the Hugo.
Answer: Hugo Gernsback
23. As this novel opens, the protagonist watches an Indian girl get kicked out of a library for whites only. In response to the Suppression of Communism Act and the Group Areas Act, Prem Bodasingh and Dr. Monty participate in a Defiance Campaign against the Nationalist regime. Several non-fictional figures make appearances, including the tribal leader Albert Lutuli and the “Architect of Apartheid” HenrikVerwoerd. For 10 points-- name this third novel of Alan Paton, which capitalized on the success of Cry, the Beloved Country and Too Late the Phalarope.
Answer: Ah, but Your Land Is Beautiful
24. In this novel, Robbie abandons his uncle George after George rescues a cousin from a train on a family outing. Uncle George is well liked by Uncle Battle and Aunt Ellen, as observed by Laura on her journey to Shellmound. The handmade quilts sent by Troy's mother for the titular festivities reflect the disapproval of Troy’s future in-laws in--For 10 points—what chronicle by Eudora Welty of the Fairchild family prior to their daughter’s nuptials?
Answer: Delta Wedding
25. The author of this work begins by saying he was inspired neither by Apollo nor Clio, but drew on personal experience. It consists of three books written in elegiac couplets and features such advice as “If you know her name, give it. If you don’t, invent it.” The author suggests the Circus Maximus as a good location for meeting women and admits an affair with the maid of his love, Corinna. Resulting in the banishment of its author –for 10 points—name this romantic guide, written by Ovid.
Answer: Art of Love or Ars Armatoria