Question
A 2023 play adapts this character as Alvita, who recalls her five marriages while telling stories at a pub. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this character who tears pages out of the book Valerie and Theofraste. This woman tells a story about King Midas' asses' ears, and goes deaf in one ear after her husband hits her.
ANSWER: the Wife of Bath [or Alison; accept The Wife of Willesden]
[10h] In Zadie Smith's The Wife of Willesden, Alvita was born in this country, and she sets the Wife of Bath’s tale there. Josey Wales fails to kill "the Singer" in this country in the 2015-Booker winning novel A Brief History of Seven Killings.
ANSWER: Jamaica (Marlon James' A Brief History of Seven Killings is about the attempted assassination of Bob Marley.)
[10e] Smith described turning "Alyson from Bath into Alvita from Willesden" while maintaining the "colloquial flow" of this author's The Canterbury Tales.
ANSWER: Geoffrey Chaucer
<Literature - British Literature - Short Fiction>
Data
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adlai E. Stevenson A | Alabama Cyber Tech | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Carmel A | Glenbrook South | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Downingtown STEM | Classen SAS | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Eastchester | Hinsdale Central A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Fremd | Uni of Illinois Laboratory | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Johns Creek | Lindbergh | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Montgomery Blair A | Hunter A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Northview | Detroit Catholic Central A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Uni School of Nashville A | Innovation Academy B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| West Point | Georgetown Day | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Exact Match? | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 PACE NSC | 06/07/2025 | Y | 10 | 18.00 | 100% | 50% | 30% |