scholar's bowl

Question 1

Russian author, wrote “Lolita”.

Answer 1

Valdimir Nabokov

Question 2

Often dealt with meta-fiction themes.

Answer 2

Jorge Luis Borges

Question 3

Wrote “Slaughter-House Five”

Answer 3

Kurt Vonnegut

Question 4

Wrote “If on a Winter’s Night Traveler”.

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Italo Calvino

Question 5

Wrote “Catch-22”.

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Joseph Heller

Question 6

Wrote “White Noise”.

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Don DeLillo

Question 7

Wrote “Gravity’s Rainbow”.

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Thomas Pynchon

Question 8

Wrote “Midnight’s Children”.

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Salman Rushdie

Question 9

Wrote “Infinite Jest”

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David Foster Wallace

Question 10

British author, wrote “White Teeth”.

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Zadie Smith

Question 11

Grew up in Harlem. Wrote “Go Tell it to the Mountain”

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James Baldwin

Question 12

Wrote a poetry collection named “Annie Allen”

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Gwendolyn Brooks

Question 13

Wrote “Invisible Man”

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Ralph Ellison

Question 14

Wrote “A Raisin in the Sun”

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Loraine Hansberry

Question 15

Wrote a poem named “I, Too”

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Langston Hughes

Question 16

Works in her home town Eatonville, Florida.

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Zora Neale Hurston

Question 17

Wrote “Beloved”.

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Toni Morrison

Question 18

Wrote “The Color Purple”.

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Alice Walker

Question 19

Wheatley was her slave name, she was freed in the 1770s.

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Phillis Wheatley

Question 20

Wrote “Native Son”

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Richard Wright

Question 21

An american author, known for twist endings.

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O. Henry

Question 22

An american author, presents a character named “Nick Adams”.

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Ernest Hemingway

Question 23

Wrote “The Lottery”.

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Shirley Jackson

Question 24

Wrote “The Catcher in the Rye”. Many of his stories present the Glass Family.

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J. D. Salinger

Question 25

Best known for detective fiction, science fiction, and horror genres. Wrote “The Cask of Amontillado”.

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Edgar Allan Poe

Question 26

Wrote “There Will Come Soft Rains”.

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Ray Bradbury

Question 27

A french author known for his ironic endings. Wrote the story named “The Necklace”.

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Guy De Maupassant

Question 28

Wrote “The Minister’s Black Veil”.

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Nathaniel Hawthorne

Question 29

She wrote in the “Southern Gothic” style. Wrote the story “A Good Man is Hard to Find”.

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Flannery O’ Conner

Question 30

An Argentine author best known for his philosophical stories. Wrote “The Library of Babel”.

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Jorge Luis Borges

Question 31

Originally consisted of five tribes native to upstate New York: the Mohawk, Cayuga, Oneida, Seneca, and Onondaga.

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The Iroquois Confederacy

Question 32

An Algonquin-speaking people who lived in eastern Virginia.

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The Powhatan

Question 33

Lived as one of the so-called “Five Civilized Tribes” of the southeastern United States.

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The Cherokee

Question 34

Another “civilized tribe,” lived in what is now Florida.

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The Seminole

Question 35

Are native to the Ohio Valley. Their leader Blue Jacket allied with the Miami people to crush an American incursion into the region at the Battle of the Wabash in 1791.

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The Shawnee

Question 36

The preeminent tribe of the northern Great Plains for most of the 19th century.

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The Lakota Sioux

Question 37

Held lands on the northern plains, while their linguistic relatives the Comanche dominated the southern plains.

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The Shoshone

Question 38

Lived along the Columbia River in the Pacific Northwest and maintained friendly relationships with Americans through most of the 19th century.

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The Nez Perce

Question 39

Live in the American southwest and contested land claims with both Mexican and American settlers, having earlier gained a reputation for ferocity by raiding other tribes in the southwest for generations.

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The Apache

Question 40

Indigenous to the American southwest. After their homeland was devastated in a campaign led by Kit Carson.

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The Navajo

Question 41

The sponges are all water-dwellers.

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Porifera [por-IF-ur-uh]

Question 42

Also called Coelenterata, the cnidarians develop from a diploblastic (two-layered) embryo, and have two separate tissue layers and radial body symmetry.

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Cnidaria [ny-DAIR-ee-uh]

Question 43

The flatworms are the most primitive phylum to develop from a triploblastic (three-layered) embryo.

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Platyhelminthes [plat-ee-hel-MIN-theez]

Question 44

The roundworms are unsegmented worms that live in a variety of habitats. They are pseudocoelomate; the three tissue layers are concentric, but the body cavity is not lined with tissue derived from the mesoderm (middle embryonic layer).

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Nematoda [nee-muh-TOH-duh]

Question 45

The annelids are segmented worms and represent the first lineage of truly eucoelomate animals, meaning their body cavities are lined with tissue derived from the embryonic mesoderm.

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Annelida [an-uh-LEE-duh]

Question 46

The most diverse and successful animal phylum on earth (incorporating about 75% of all described animal species), the Arthropoda are characterized by jointed legs and a chitinous exoskeleton.

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Arthropoda [arth-roh-POH-duh]

Question 47

The molluscs are second in diversity only to the arthropods. Body plans within this phylum are diverse, but general characteristics include a soft body covered by a thin mantle, with a muscular foot and an internal visceral mass.

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Mollusca [moh-LUS-kuh]

Question 48

Characteristics of this phylum include an endoskeleton composed of many ossicles of calcium and magnesium carbonate, a water vascular system, a ring canal around the esophagus, and locomotion by tube feet connected to the water vascular system.

Answer 48

Echinodermata [eh-KY-noh-dur-MAH-tuh]

Question 49

The phylum that contains humans, Chordata is divided into three subphyla: Urochordata, the sea squirts; Cephalochordata, the lancelets, and Vertebrata, the true vertebrates, which is the most diverse subphylum.

Answer 49

Chordata [kor-DAH-tuh]

Question 50

Novelist, diarist, and lady-in-waiting. She was the author of the Tale of Genji (Genji monogatari), the first known novel; the diary Murasaki Shikibu nikki; and a collection of tanka poems.

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Lady Murasaki Shikibu

Question 51

Like Lady Murasaki, Sei Shonagan was a lady-in-waiting of the Empress. Since Lady Murasaki and Sei Shonagan were contemporaries and known for their wit, they were often rivals*.

Answer 51

Sei Shonagon

Question 52

also called Kanze Motokiyo: The second master of the Kanze theatrical school, which had been founded by his father, he is regarded as the greatest playwright of the No theater.

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Zeami

Question 53

a pseudonym of Matsuo Munefusa: Generally acknowledged as the master of the haiku form, the most notable influences on his work were Zen Buddhism and his travels throughout Japan.

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Matsuo Basho

Question 54

He was one of Japan’s first professional dramatists (as opposed to playwright-actors). Originally named Sugimori Nobumori, Chikamatsu wrote more than 150 plays for both the bunraku (puppet theater) and the kabuki (popular theater).

Answer 54

Chikamatsu Monzaemon

Question 55

His mother died insane while he was a child, and his father was a failure who gave him up to relatives. Despite this inauspicious childhood, his 1915 short story “Rashomon” brought him into the highest literary circles and started him writing the macabre stories for which he is known. In 1927 he committed suicide by overdosing on pills, and his suicide letter “A Note to a Certain Old Friend” became a published work.

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Akutagawa Ryunosuke

Question 56

Recipient of the 1968 Nobel Prize for Literature, he was the first Japanese author to win the Nobel. His works combine classic Japanese values with modern trends, and often center on the role of sex in people’s lives.

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Kawabata Yasunari

Question 57

a pseudonym of Hiraoka Kimitake: He was a novelist whose central theme was the disparity between traditional Japanese values and the spiritual emptiness of modern life. He failed to qualify for military service during World War II, so worked in an aircraft factory instead.

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Mishima Yukio

Question 58

He converted to Catholicism at the age of 11, and majored in French literature. His first works, White Man and Yellow Man, explored the differences between Japanese and Western values and national experiences.

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Endo Shusaku

Question 59

Novelist and recipient of the 1994 Nobel Prize for Literature. His first work, Shiiku (The Catch), describes a friendship between a Japanese boy and a black American POW, and won him the Akutagawa award while he was still a student.

Answer 59

Oe Kenzaburo