Question
Description acceptable. Near the end of a novel, a character returns to this location after being confronted by her husband over her racy emails with “wildinwembley.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Name or describe this place that has a central “basin” with buildings named after Hobbes and Locke. In a 2012 novel, a character who grew up in this place becomes a lawyer and “tithes” part of her income to her family here.
ANSWER: the council estate in NW [or Caldwell; prompt on partial answer; accept council house, council flat, corporation house, housing estate, or public housing in place of “council estate”; prompt on less specific answers like apartment complex or housing development]
[10e] The protagonist’s father abandons his family after moving into a council flat in this novel by Douglas Stuart, which follows the title character’s youth in Glasgow and won the 2020 Booker Prize.
ANSWER: Shuggie Bain
[10m] Andrea Levy’s novels draw on her youth at a council estate in London after her parents moved there from this city. In White Teeth, the devout Jehovah’s Witness Hortense is born during a disaster in this city.
ANSWER: Kingston, Jamaica
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| Tournament | Edition | Exact Match? | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 Chicago Open | 07/28/2024 | Y | 15 | 14.00 | 80% | 60% | 0% |