Question
Name some authors who were roommates in the February House, for 10 points each.
[10e] While living in the February House, this author collaborated with Benjamin Britten on an operetta about Paul Bunyan. This poet also wrote "Funeral Blues" and "September 1, 1939."
ANSWER: W. H. Auden [or Wysten Hugh Auden]
[10h] The February House was also home to a married couple with this last name, one member of whom wrote Two Serious Ladies and the other The Sheltering Sky. Christopher Isherwood created a singer with this last name in Goodbye to Berlin.
ANSWER: Bowles [accept Paul Bowles or Jane Bowles or Sally Bowles]
[10m] This author based characters in her novella The Ballad of the Sad Cafe on people she met in the February House's local bar. In a novel by this author, the Deaf man John Singer misses his institutionalized friend Spiros Antonapoulos.
ANSWER: Carson McCullers [or Lula Carson Smith] (The novel is The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.)
<Literature - American Literature - Long Fiction>
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Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Exact Match? | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 PACE NSC | 06/07/2025 | Y | 31 | 14.84 | 90% | 42% | 16% |