Question

In a story from Sergio Pitol’s (“SAIR-hee-oh pee-TOLL’s”) collection Mephisto’s Waltz, this animal gives the narrator a message of “twelve enlightening words.” For 10 points each:
[10h] A novel by a different author opens with a man’s description of a young woman from the Carpathians painting what type of animal at a zoo?
ANSWER: panthers [accept black panthers; prompt on big cats or felines or Cat People; prompt on black leopards] (The novel is Manuel Puig’s Kiss of the Spider Woman.)
[10e] Pitol’s story “The Panther” is included in Sun, Stone, and Shadows, an anthology of stories from this country. This country is home to the author of the poem “Sunstone.”
ANSWER: Mexico [or United Mexican States; or Estados Unidos Mexicanos; reject “Estados Unidos”] (Octavio Paz wrote “Sunstone.”)
[10m] Sun, Stone, and Shadows also includes this author’s story “Tell Them Not to Kill Me!”, which is part of his collection The Burning Plain. In a novel by this author, the title tyrant lets the town die of hunger out of spite while he is mourning Susana’s death.
ANSWER: Juan Rulfo [or Juan Nepomuceno Carlos Pérez Rulfo Vizcaíno; prompt on Vizcaíno] (The novel is Pedro Páramo.)

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TeamOpponentPart 1Part 2Part 3Total
Brown ANorthwestern A0101020
Chicago APenn A0101020
Chicago BJohns Hopkins A010010
Chicago CDuke A0101020
Columbia BIndiana A010010
Florida AToronto A0101020
Georgia Tech AMIT A1010020
Iowa State ANorth Carolina A010010
Maryland AHarvard A0101020
Michigan AIllinois A1010020
Minnesota AHouston A010010
Minnesota BGeorgia Tech B1010020
NYU ACornell B10101030
Ohio State AYale A0101020
UC Berkeley AImperial A10101030
UC Berkeley BColumbia A010010
Vanderbilt ARutgers A10101030
WUSTL ASouth Carolina A0101020
WUSTL BTexas A0101020
Yale BPurdue A10101030