Question
Kurt Vonnegut lampooned this man as a “jangling journalist” in a review with the passage, "Oxymorons and serpentae carminael! ... Schlock!" For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this New Journalist who wrote a book mocked as "What [This Author] doesn't know about modern architecture." This man wrote The Right Stuff and Bonfire of the Vanities.
ANSWER: Tom Wolfe [or Thomas Kennerly Wolfe Jr.] (The book that was mocked is From Bauhaus to Our House.)
[10h] That Vonnegut quote is from his review of a Wolfe collection lengthily titled for a “kandy kolored” “tangerine flake” one of these objects made by Ed Roth and George Barris.
ANSWER: cars [accept equivalents like automobiles; accept specific models of cars; prompt on vehicles; prompt on The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby] (The collection was originally published under the title "There Goes (Varoom! Varoom!) That Kandy-Kolored (Thphhhhhh!) Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby (Rahghhh!) Around the Bend (Brummmmmmmmmmmmmmm)…".)
[10m] Wolfe was criticized as “Peeping Tom” for his novel I Am Charlotte Simmons, mainly set at one of these places. Jack Gladney works in one of these places in White Noise, and Donna Tartt's The Secret History is set at one of these places.
ANSWER: college campus [accept universities; prompt on schools or campuses]
<Literature - American Literature - Misc Literature>
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| Tournament | Edition | Exact Match? | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 PACE NSC | 06/07/2025 | Y | 36 | 15.56 | 86% | 64% | 6% |