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Folly & Glory – Playoff II:1
1. It cites Luke 12 and Psalms 73 multiple times and the Westminster Confession explains its inclusion of the phrase “means of grace”. Originally presented in Enfield, the people of Suffield are cited as a positive example. The work features an epigraph, an excerpt of Deuteronomy 32:35, "Their foot shall slide in due time." Likening men to a spider hanging by a thread above the fire of God's wrath, For 10 points—name this sermon of Jonathan Edwards.
Answer: “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”
2. During the twentieth century W. H. Auden in his Letter to Lord Byron used this verse form. Usually employed in iambic pentameter, the stanza can be constructed either as a tercet and two couplets or a quatrain and a tercet. It first appeared in its most famous practitioner’s “Complaint unto Pity.” Shakespeare used it for his “Rape of Lucrece” and Edmund Spenser adapted his namesake stanza from it. Having rhyme scheme a-b-a-b-b-c-c --for 10 points-- name this stanza form used by Chaucer and most likely not named for its use in the “Kingis Quaire” by King James I.
Answer: Rhyme Royal
3. The climax of this novel occurs in a fire where the antagonist attempts to burn a parish registry but is killed in the process. The novel begins with the arrival at Limmeridge of a young artist named Walter who is to tutor the sisters Marian and Laura. Laura is betrothed to Percival Glyde, a ruthless swindler intent on stealing her fortune. Following the death of Ann Chatherick, he arranges for her to be buried under his wife's name and his wife to be sent in her place to a mental hospital. Featuring the sinister Count Fosco --for 10 points-- name this novel by Wilkie Collins.
Answer: Woman in White
4. The kantele, a zither-like instrument was lost during the quest to recover this (*) object whose history is the subject of the 1959 movie “The Day the Earth Froze.” Its history dates to when the ruler of Pohjola found the singer-hero son of the wind on his beach. In return for the hand of one of his daughters, the ruler requests the hero build it for him, though the ruler eventually sinks it to the bottom of a lake after Väinämöinen attempts to recapture it. For 10 points—name this magic mill of Finnish myth.
Answer:Sampo[Accept:Väinämöinen(until *)]
5. This author's work was inspired by a credo borrowed from Jung and was influenced by the ideas espoused in her therapist’s Art and Artist. The author explored aspects of her relationship with her lover's wife in both the poem, “House of Incest,” and in her better-known work's last volume, Henry and June. That most famous work includes portraits of Lawrence Durrell, Martha Graham, Salvador Dali, Otto Rank, and lover, Henry Miller. For 10 points-- name this twentieth century French Diarist.
Answer: Anaïs Nin
6. The work, which follows this one, speaks of a man who "is now entered into the possession of his better estate." A part of a twenty-three-part collection in which the poet observes the stages of the world's spiritual disease, the poet says, "If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less." The poet is "involved in mankind" and instructs the reader to never wonder, "For whom the bells tolls." Including the famous line "No man is an island, entire of itself" --for 10 points-- name this most famous part of John Donne's Devotions upon Emergent Occasions.
Answer: “Meditation XVII” or “Devotion XVII”
7. The collection On Life and Letters includes his literary reviews for the paper Le Temps. His early work consists primarily of historical fiction including a fanciful account of the life of one of the magi, Balthazar, and a story of an Alexandrian courtesan during the Christian era, Thais, but neither of those was as successful as 1881’s The Crime of Sylvester Bonnard. His most well known work, however, was a 1908 novel about a Breton evangelical priest who is transported by the devil to the North Pole. For 10 points— name this author of Penguin Island.
Answer: Anatole France
8. This author was the subject of Richard Aldington's "Portrait of a Genius, But..." and his earliest poems were published in the English Review by Ford Madox Ford. A trip around the world provided the inspiration for the stories of Benjamin Cooley and Kate Leslie, in which he explores his reactions to World War I and a fictional religious revival led by Don Ramón Carrasco, "the living Quetzalcoatl." For 10 points-- name this author of Kangaroo and The Plumed Serpent.
Answer: David Herbert Lawrence
9. In chapter 43 this protagonist, who was legendarily hatched from a stone egg, tells his companion, “you have forgotten the verse…no eye, ear, nose, tongue, body or mind.” During a battle with the Celestial General, he changes himself into a fish and on another occasion is swallowed by a Python, due to Pigsy who joins him and his companion on their quest for the Heart Sutra. For 10 points—name this character that was likely modeled on the Ramayana’s Hanuman and who accompanies Tripitaka on the Journey to the West.
Answer: Monkey or Sun’Wu’Kung or Sun Aware of Vacuity
10. Blaise Gavender and Dora Greenfield are the protagonists of this modern author's novels, Sacred and Profane Love Machine and The Bell. This author's debut novel centers on a love quadrangle involving the young writer, Jake Donaghue. The author herself was well-versed in the romantic escapades of novelists; she married novelist John Bayley and had an affair with Nobel-Laureate Elias Canetti. The winner of the Booker Prize for her novel The Sea, --for 10 points-- name this author who was portrayed by Kate Winslet and Judy Dench in the movie Iris.
Answer: Dame Jean Iris Murdoch
11. This character notes, "The cock, that is the trumpet to the morn, / Doth with his lofty and shrill-sounding throat / Awake the god of day;" prior to entering with Barnado and Marcellus to tell the play's central character that they have seen a ghost. He promises to speak the "carnal, bloody, and unnatural acts" that have taken place following the announcement that "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead." The person to whom was spoken the line, "Alas, Poor Yorick, I knew him" --for 10 points-- name this loyal friend to Hamlet.
Answer: Horatio
12. The first narrator of this novel is on business trying to secure the sale of the Carfax estate at Purfleet near London. He then finds himself prisoner, and his absence worries his fiancée, Mina Murray, who is taking care of her friend Lucy. When Lucy comes down with a strangely draining affliction after a strange ship washes ashore carrying only a gray wolf, one of her suitors, Dr. John Seward, enlists the help of a Dutch doctor, who diagnoses the illness as the work of a vampire. For 10 points-- name this novel by Bram Stoker.
Answer: Dracula
13. Attempting to woo his love interest, the protagonist of this novel buys a beige suede handbag, an automobile, and a three million yen diamond ring. That love interest attracts the affections of two other men: the protagonist’s nephew Haruhisha and his son Jokichi. Though the novel ends with reports by the nurse Sasaki and the protagonist’s daughter Itsuko, most of it is narrated by the title character who lusts after his daughter-in-law Satsuko. For 10 points-- name this novel in which Tokusuke Utsugi chronicles his life from June to November of 1960, a work by Junichiro Tanizaki.
Answer: Diary of a Mad Old Man or Futen Rojin Nikki
14. In the fourth line of this poem, which was written in the Italian woods near the Arno coast, the poet alludes to tuberculosis, the "hectic red, pestilence-stricken multitudes." In the last section the poet asks the title character to scatter his words like Ashes and Spark might scatter from unextinguish'd hearth. The poet then alludes to the Book of Revelations and wonders, "If Winter comes, can spring be far behind?" Published along with the author's Prometheus Unbound --for 10 points-- name this poetic ode to Zephyrus by Percy Shelley.
Answer: “Ode to the West Wind”
15. The son in this play was named Cain, until an accident kills his brother and he changes it to Henry. As it opens, pianos are being burned in Boston, and the central family takes in a group of refuges including a judge and a blind beggar named Homer. The central household consists of daughter Gladys, maid Sabrina, a baby dinosaur, and a mammoth. For 10 Points-- name this play that follows through an Ice Age, a great flood, and a devastating war, the Antrobus family of New Jersey, by Thornton wilder.
Answer: The Skin of Our Teeth
16. In Celebration of You is an unpublished collection of love poetry this man wrote to his lover, Lou Andreas. He took a trip to Scandinavia in 1904 where he took notes for his novel about a Dane in Paris, The Notebook of Malte Laurids Brigge. The three segments Of the Monastic Life, Of Pilgrimage, and Of Poverty and Death make up his collection The Book of Hours, but it is a set of sonnets and a collection of elegies from a Czech castle for which he is most famous. For 10 points—name this poet of Duino Elegies and Sonnets to Orpheus.
Answer: Rainer MariaRilke
17. Lucy Weatherby replaces Sally Dupre in Clay's affections in this poem on the same night Spade escapes from the Zachry plantation. Melora Vilas gives birth to Jack's baby and finally finds him in her cart. It is seen from the perspective of a young Connecticut boy, Jack Ellyat, and Clay Wingate, a Georgian planter's son and interweaves historical and fictional events including the surrender at Appomattox Court House and the raid at Harper's Ferry. For 10 points-- name this epic poem by Stephen Vincent Benet based on a Civil War era historical figure.
Answer: “John Brown's Body”
18. The last play of Hugo von Hofmannstahl, The Tower, is based on this play. The name of that play comes from the tower in which the protagonist spends most of his life chained to a metal ring in the floor. After his true identity is revealed to him by his father, he falls in love with his cousin, who ends up being seduced by Duke Astolfo of Muscovy, but the protagonist breaks up the union and sets up Astolfo with Rosaura, claiming his cousin Estrella for himself. For 10 points-- name this play, whose title refers to what Clotaldo convinces Prince Segismund the day’s events have been, a work of Pedro Calderon de la Barca.
Answer: Life is a Dream
19. McClintic Sphere, a jazz musician, has a girlfriend named Ruby who is really Raola Maijstral Hod, married to Pappy. This novel concerns two plots, one an account of "The Whole Sick Crew" of people in New York led by Benny Profane and the other Herbert Stencil's attempts to re-create the past of his father Sidney. The plots resolve in Malta with the search for the title woman, who appears in various forms as an English girl named Victoria, Botticelli's Venus, and the Virgin. FTP, identify this novel by Thomas Pynchon named for a mysterious woman from Sidney Stencil's past.
Answer: V
20. Title's the same! This is the name of one memoir subtitled “Scenes from Provincal Life II,” in which the author recalls his decision to work for IBM and give up a thesis on the works of Ford Maddox Ford. In another author's memoir, whose third section has this title, the thinly veiled narrator Vladimir Petrovich goes to the University of Moscow and explores love. In a novel of this title, Marlow narrates a sea adventure aboard the Judea. For 10 points-- what is this title shared by works of Coetzee, Tolstoy, and Conrad, all named for the time period which Shakespeare referred to as "Salad Days."
Answer: Youth
21. The last words of the titular protagonist of this novel are “To thee I deliver up my soul.” The protagonist’s first love is the girl with the harelip, whom he buries with her stillborn child after she is stoned to death. While working in the Cypriot mines he meets the tall Christian Sahak, who thinks him a holy man due to his having witnessed the crucifixion of Jesus, but Sahak is crucified for his beliefs, as, eventually, is the title character. For 10 points-- give this novel about a crisis of faith by Pär Lagerkvist, whose title character was replaced by Jesus on the cross.
Answer: Barabbas
22. Aunt Carroll passes her over to be a companion on a Europe trip, so she goes to New York to serve as a governess for Mrs. Kirke. She sells her long, chestnut hair for twenty-five dollars to allow her mother to travel to her sick father, a Civil War chaplain. After inheriting her Aunt March's home Plumfield, she turns it into a boys' school. She marries Professor Bhaer after turning down Laurie's proposal. Reappearing in a book about her "boys," For 10 points—name this Alcott character, the second oldest of the Little Women.
Answer: Jo March
23. One of the central characters in this story only utters two words, "talitha cumi.' The titular character argues that humanity yearns for three qualities: “mystery,” “miracle,” and “authority,” and associates the entities with Satan's three temptations of Jesus in the desert. He argues that 800 years earlier the Catholic Church accepted these temptations when Pope Stephen II accepted the Donation of Pepin. Essentially a monologue in which the title character rationalizes to a Divine visitor --for 10 points-- name this story that Ivan tells Alexei in Dostoevsky's Brothers Karamazov.
Answer: “The Grand Inquisitor”
24. His imprisonment at Point Lookout, Maryland and experiences as a scout in the Confederate army is reflected in his novel Tiger-Lilies. A trip to Texas resulted in a series of letters and the essays “The Mesquite in Texas” and “The Mexican Border Troubles”, which were both published under the pseudonym Otfall. After moving to Maryland, he wrote a cantata for the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia, but he is better know for his poetry. The Georgia roots of -for 10 points-- what American poet are reflected in "The Marshes of Glynn?"
Answer: Sidney Lanier
25. The protagonists of this novel delight in inventing departmental words such as “Tetrapyloctomy” and “Avunculogratulation.” One of the protagonists utters his favorite phrase, “Ma gavte la nata,” before being hanged, while another attributes his death from cancer to “The Plan.” The protagonists use a computer named Abulafia to draw links among occult theories and legends of the Knights Templars. From these links, Diotallevi, Belbo, and the narrator Causabon create a giant map to place beneath the titular object. For 10 points-- identify this novel by Umberto Eco.
Answer: Foucault’s Pendulum or Il Pendolo di Foucault