Packet C: Bonus 13
Gabriel García Márquez began writing fiction after an opening line by this author showed him that people were “allowed to write things like that.” For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this author who is described as creating “his own precursors” in one essay. Max Brod published the works of this author, including a novella in which Gregor Samsa awakens after the title transformation.
ANSWER: Franz Kafka
[10m] This author of “Kafka and his Precursors” translated several works by Kafka into Spanish. In a short story by this author, a man dreams into existence a son in the ruins and later learns that he too was dreamed into existence.
ANSWER: Jorge Luis Borges
[10h] In this Kafka story, the mere harsh words of a father compels his son Georg to drown himself in a river.
ANSWER: “The Judgment”
<Waterloo A, European Literature> | Packet C - Virginia Tech A, Waterloo A, UCSD A, UBC A
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 72 | 19.03 | 99% | 67% | 25% |
Conversion
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| California (North) | Main Site | ✓ | 3 | 26.67 | 100% | 100% | 67% |
| Canada | Main Site | ✓ | 10 | 19.00 | 100% | 70% | 20% |
| Florida | Main Site | ✓ | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| Great Lakes | Main Site | ✓ | 5 | 20.00 | 100% | 80% | 20% |
| Midwest | Main Site | ✓ | 8 | 18.75 | 100% | 63% | 25% |
| Northeast | Main Site | ✓ | 6 | 21.67 | 83% | 67% | 67% |
| Overflow | Main Site | ✓ | 4 | 22.50 | 100% | 100% | 25% |
| South Central | Main Site | ✓ | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| Southeast | Main Site | ✓ | 7 | 12.86 | 100% | 29% | 0% |
| UK | Main Site | ✓ | 12 | 15.83 | 100% | 50% | 8% |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | Main Site | ✓ | 8 | 23.75 | 100% | 88% | 50% |
| Upstate NY | Main Site | ✓ | 4 | 17.50 | 100% | 50% | 25% |