Question

In a novel in this genre, Abendsen uses the I Ching to write a subversive novel, The Grasshopper Lies Heavy. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name the genre of that aforementioned novel, in which Frank Frink sells antiques. Characters theorize about the kidnapping of Charles Lindbergh's son in another novel in this genre.
ANSWER: alternate history [or alternative history; accept althist; accept answers indicating works set in an alternate reality or alternative reality; accept uchronia; prompt on counterfactual; prompt on speculative fiction; prompt on historical fiction; prompt on science fiction or sci-fi or SF or speculative fiction; prompt on dystopia; prompt on fiction about a parallel universe or world or reality]
[10m] The Man in the High Castle and The Plot Against America are alternate history novels by authors with this first name, the latter of whom created the recurring character Nathan Zuckerman.
ANSWER: Philip [accept Philip K. Dick or Philip Roth; accept Phil]
[10e] Possibly the first English alternate history is a story by this author about a man who claims to know Napoleon, “P’s Correspondence.” Characters watch a meteor from a scaffold in this author’s The Scarlet Letter.
ANSWER: Nathaniel Hawthorne
<Literature - American Literature - Long Fiction>

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TeamOpponentPart 1Part 2Part 3Total
Detroit Catholic Central ALexington0101020
FremdAlabama Cyber Tech0101020
Hinsdale Central AWestwood0101020
Hunter AStrake Jesuit A10101030
Innovation Academy ABelmont0101020
Montgomery Blair ALambert A0101020
NorthmontEastchester0101020
NorthviewAudrain County AT10101030
Richard MontgomeryJohns Creek10101030
Strake Jesuit BThomas Jefferson A10101030
Uni of Illinois LaboratoryAdlai E. Stevenson A0101020
Walter Payton ALindbergh10101030

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TournamentEditionExact Match?HeardPPBEasy %Medium %Hard %
2025 PACE NSC06/07/2025Y1224.17100%100%42%