Question
The Valencian-language book Tirant lo Blanch ("blahnk") belongs to this genre's "chivalric" subtype. For 10 points each:
[10m] What genre of historical fiction has a name now used in English for a type of genre fiction? This genre's name is cognate to the French and German for "novel."
ANSWER: romance [accept roman or chivalric romance]
[10e] Tirant lo Blanch is saved from being burned in this Miguel de Cervantes novel, whose protagonist reads so many romances that he acts like a knight.
ANSWER: Don Quixote [or The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha or El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha]
[10h] The title character of Tirant lo Blanch fights for this state, whose own romance genre inspired Cervantes's last novel. This historical state's literature included Acritic songs and a history that a princess wrote about her father.
ANSWER: Byzantine Empire [or Eastern Roman Empire; accept Byzantine romances or Byzantine novels; prompt on Roman Empire] (The history is the Alexiad.)
<Literature - European Literature - Long Fiction>
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Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Exact Match? | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 PACE NSC | 06/07/2025 | Y | 36 | 16.39 | 100% | 25% | 39% |