Question
This character proposes marriage in Latin to an Oxford alumna by asking "Placetne ("plah-SET-nay"), magistra?" in Gaudy Night. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this detective who solves murders with, and eventually marries, the crime writer Harriet Vane. Dorothy Sayers wrote about this foolish-looking lord in works like Whose Body? and Murder Must Advertise.
ANSWER: Lord Peter Wimsey [or Lord Peter Wimsey]
[10m] Sayers wrote a chapter in the collaborative mystery The Floating Admiral, for which this man wrote a prologue. This Catholic creator of the detective Father Brown wrote The Napoleon of Notting Hill and The Man Who Was Thursday.
ANSWER: G. K. Chesterton
[10e] Sayers did not consider her best work to be her mysteries, but instead her translation of Dante’s Divine Comedy, with this first section followed by Purgatorio and Paradiso.
ANSWER: Inferno [accept Dante’s Inferno]
<Literature - British Literature - Long Fiction>
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Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Exact Match? | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 PACE NSC | 06/07/2025 | Y | 42 | 14.29 | 98% | 38% | 7% |