Packet H: Bonus 2
In a novel that won the 2025 Booker Prize, a teenage boy from this country accidentally kills the husband of a 42-year-old woman who had coerced him into a sexual relationship. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this setting of the start of David Szalay’s novel Flesh. This country is also home to the 2002 Nobel-Prize-winning author of Fatelessness.
ANSWER: Hungary [or Magyarország]
[10e] Ironically, despite time spent in concentration camps, Hungarian author Imre Kertész (“EEM-ray KARE-tace”) went on to become a noted translator of works in this language, which included works by Friedrich Dürrenmatt and Friedrich Nietzsche.
ANSWER: German
[10h] In this novel by the Hungarian author Magda Szabó, the elderly housekeeper Emerence dies after learning that people went into her home while she was in the hospital. The protagonist of this novel is also named Magda.
ANSWER: The Door [or Az ajtó]
<Yale A, European Literature> | Packet H - Yale A, Ohio State C, Illinois C, Virginia Tech B, MIT A
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 72 | 15.56 | 100% | 36% | 19% |
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Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| California (North) | Main Site | ✓ | 3 | 23.33 | 100% | 100% | 33% |
| California (South) | Main Site | ✓ | 4 | 15.00 | 100% | 25% | 25% |
| Canada | Main Site | ✓ | 12 | 17.50 | 100% | 33% | 42% |
| Florida | Main Site | ✓ | 3 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| Great Lakes | Main Site | ✓ | 4 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| Midwest | Main Site | ✓ | 8 | 13.75 | 100% | 25% | 13% |
| Overflow | Main Site | ✓ | 4 | 15.00 | 100% | 25% | 25% |
| South Central | Main Site | ✓ | 2 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| Southeast | Main Site | ✓ | 8 | 13.75 | 100% | 25% | 13% |
| UK | Main Site | ✓ | 12 | 14.17 | 100% | 42% | 0% |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | Main Site | ✓ | 8 | 21.25 | 100% | 63% | 50% |
| Upstate NY | Main Site | ✓ | 4 | 12.50 | 100% | 25% | 0% |