Question
This event causes the bookstore employee Pollux to be hospitalized in Louise Erdrich's novel The Sentence. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this real-world event that began in early 2020. Zadie Smith wrote the collection Intimations to support a fund for people affected by lockdowns due to this event.
ANSWER: COVID-19 pandemic [or COVID pandemic; or coronavirus pandemic; prompt on pandemic]
[10h] Gaspery-Jacques reveals information about the upcoming COVID pandemic while investigating a time anomaly in this author’s 2022 novel Sea of Tranquility.
ANSWER: Emily St. John Mandel
[10m] This author's mother, who died shortly before the pandemic, inspired the title character of Violeta. Eva Luna’s mother chokes on a chicken bone in the first part of one novel by this author.
ANSWER: Isabel Allende [or Isabel Angélica Allende Llona]
<Literature - World Literature - Misc Literature>
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Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Exact Match? | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 PACE NSC | 06/07/2025 | Y | 42 | 18.57 | 100% | 76% | 10% |