Question
John Hughes’s novel The Dogs was removed from the longlist for Australia’s Miles Franklin Prize after The Guardian discovered 58 instances of plagiarism from this author’s book The Unwomanly Face of War. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this author and journalist who wrote oral histories like Zinky Boys and Voices from Chernobyl.
ANSWER: Svetlana Alexievich [or Svetlana Alexandrovna Alexievich]
[10e] Hughes took verbatim the description of a man who crawls “for a full half-mile on his hands, dragging his legs behind him” from this novel about Paul Bäumer’s (“BOY-mer’s”) harrowing experiences during World War I.
ANSWER: All Quiet on the Western Front [or Im Westen nichts Neues] (by Erich Maria Remarque)
[10h] Hughes also ripped off this 1992 novel about four Jewish men in exile, including the doctor and gardening enthusiast Henry Selwyn and the narrator’s gay great-uncle Adelwarth.
ANSWER: The Emigrants [or Die Ausgewanderten] (by W.G. Sebald)
Data
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brown A | Maryland A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Chicago A | WUSTL A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Duke A | Cornell A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Georgia Tech A | Florida A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Illinois A | South Carolina A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Imperial A | Florida B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| MIT A | Indiana A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| McGill A | Claremont A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| North Carolina A | Columbia A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Ohio State A | Chicago B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| UC Berkeley A | Chicago C | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Virginia A | WUSTL B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Yale A | Stanford A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |