Question
At the end of a story by this author, a young man who escaped to Rita's house reluctantly hands Rita a stick to beat a slave. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this author who, in one story, wrote about the madness of the title psychiatrist, who confines both healthy and sick people to the "green house."
ANSWER: Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis ("ma-SHA-doo JEE uh-SEES")
[10m] Machado de Assis is best known for a novel written as the fictional memoir of Bras Cubas after one of these events. A collection of sonnets by a different author is titled for one of these events that occurred to Romelio Ureta.
ANSWER: death [accept word forms like dying; accept funerals; accept muerte or morte; accept suicide; accept The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas or Sonnets of Death]
[10e] Esteban Trueba builds the title house of this Isabel Allende novel after the tragic death of his fiancée Rosa the Beautiful.
ANSWER: The House of the Spirits [or La casa de los espíritus]
<Literature - World Literature - Misc Literature>
Data
Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Adlai E. Stevenson A | Innovation Academy A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
Audrain County AT | Montgomery Blair A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
Belmont | Uni of Illinois Laboratory | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
Hinsdale Central A | Lindbergh | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
Hunter A | Lexington | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
Johns Creek | Eastchester | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
Northview | Lambert A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
Richard Montgomery | Northmont | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
Strake Jesuit A | Detroit Catholic Central A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
Strake Jesuit B | Alabama Cyber Tech | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
Thomas Jefferson A | Fremd | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
Westwood | Walter Payton A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
Summary
Tournament | Edition | Exact Match? | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
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2025 PACE NSC | 06/07/2025 | Y | 12 | 19.17 | 100% | 83% | 8% |