Question
Irène Némirovsky condemned the citizens that worked with this government in her most famous book before she was executed. For 10 points each:
[10e] The anti-Semitic author Louis-Ferdinand Céline was put on trial for collaborating with what short-lived regime before its 1944 collapse?
ANSWER: Vichy France [or Vichy government or Vichy regime or Régime de Vichy; or État français or French State; prompt on France; reject “French Republic” or “République française”]
[10m] While scholars debate whether the writer Georges Simenon was a Nazi collaborator, he sold the film rights to this character, a pipe-wielding French police detective, to a German studio.
ANSWER: Inspector Maigret [or Jules Maigret; or Chief Inspector Jules Amédée François Maigret]
[10h] Under Nazi occupation, this author worked for the newspaper Le Soir. He included a caricature of a Jewish banker in The Shooting Star and drew on both Hitler and Mussolini for the unseen character Müsstler, the leader of the Syldavian Iron Guard.
ANSWER: Hergé (“air-ZHAY”) [or Georges Prosper Remi] (He created the character of Tintin.)
Data
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicago A | Yale A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Chicago B | Brown A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Claremont A | South Carolina A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Columbia A | Toronto A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Cornell A | Georgia Tech A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Cornell B | North Carolina A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Florida A | Stanford A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Florida B | Houston A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Iowa State A | Illinois A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Johns Hopkins A | Minnesota B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| MIT A | UC Berkeley A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Maryland A | Duke A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| McGill A | Rutgers A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Michigan A | Imperial A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Minnesota A | Chicago C | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| NYU A | Columbia B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Northwestern A | Indiana A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Penn State A | Penn A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Purdue A | UC Berkeley B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Rutgers B | Vanderbilt A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Texas A | Harvard A | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Virginia A | Georgia Tech B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| WUSTL A | Ohio State A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| WUSTL B | Yale B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |