Question
At this event, guests are served a three-tiered cake topped with lakes of jam, nutshell boats, and Cupid on a chocolate swing. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this event whose host, Monsieur Rouault (“roo-OH”), is mocked by some guests despite its extravagance. Later in the novel, a dried-up item from this event is discovered in a drawer and burned.
ANSWER: Madame Bovary’s wedding [or equivalents such as Madame Bovary getting married; accept marriage, matrimony, or nuptials in place of “wedding”; accept Emma Bovary or Charles Bovary or the Bovarys in place of “Madame Bovary”; prompt the feast or banquet in Madame Bovary by saying “which comes after what event?”]
[10m] In a different novel, this character serves cakes to the ambitious law student Rastignac (“ra-stin-YOCK”) and a retired pasta maker. This power-hungry former convict disguises himself as Abbé Herrera in the novel Lost Illusions.
ANSWER: Vautrin (“vo-TRON”) [or Jacques Collin; or Jacques Collin]
[10e] The narrator describes the “architectural splendor” of a chocolate cake served by Gilberte (“zheel-BAIRT”) at this family’s residence. Charles (“sharl”), a member of this family, titles the first book in Marcel Proust’s Remembrance of Things Past.
ANSWER: Swann family [accept Swann’s Way; accept Charles Swann]
Data
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brown A | Florida A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Chicago A | Chicago B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Chicago C | Texas A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Claremont A | Illinois A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Columbia B | Minnesota B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Duke A | Yale A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Florida B | Rutgers B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Georgia Tech A | Stanford A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Georgia Tech B | South Carolina A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Imperial A | UC Berkeley B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Indiana A | Cornell B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Johns Hopkins A | Vanderbilt A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| McGill A | Penn State A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Michigan A | NYU A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Minnesota A | Toronto A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| North Carolina A | Harvard A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Northwestern A | MIT A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Ohio State A | Cornell A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Penn A | Yale B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Purdue A | Houston A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Rutgers A | Virginia A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| UC Berkeley A | Columbia A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| WUSTL A | Maryland A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| WUSTL B | Iowa State A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |