Question
In The Book of the City of Ladies, Lady Rectitude commends this woman for returning to plan a marquis's wedding. For 10 points each:
[10h] Many European folktales describe what woman obediently enduring cruel tests by her husband? In a version of her story, Gualtieri ("g'wal-T'YAIR-ee") pretends to put her children to death.
ANSWER: Griselda [accept Patient Griselda]
[10e] The latter version of the Griselda story appears in this Boccaccio ("bo-KAH-cho") work, in which ten Florentines tell each other stories during a plague outbreak.
ANSWER: The Decameron [or Il Decamerone]
[10m] This author wrote a 1695 novella adapting the Griselda story. The stories "Diamonds and Toads" and "Bluebeard" appear in this French author's collection of fairy tales attributed to Mother Goose.
ANSWER: Charles Perrault ("sharl peh-ROH")
<Literature - European Literature - Short Fiction>
Data
Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total |
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Northmont | Strake Jesuit B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
Summary
Tournament | Edition | Exact Match? | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
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2025 PACE NSC | 06/07/2025 | Y | 1 | 30.00 | 100% | 100% | 100% |