Question
A trucker drives across this state to go on a disappointing date with a schoolteacher in a story from Maile Meloy’s (“MY-lee ma-LOY’s”) collection Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this state, the setting of The Lady in Kicking Horse Reservoir by Richard Hugo. Hugo spearheaded a regionalist movement in this state while working at its flagship university under Leslie Fiedler.
ANSWER: Montana [or MT]
[10m] One of Hugo’s students at the University of Montana was this Blackfeet novelist who set Winter in the Blood on the Belknap Reservation. His novel Fools Crow is a landmark work of the Native American Renaissance.
ANSWER: James Welch [accept Jim Welch]
[10e] Hugo’s most-anthologized poem is titled for “degrees of” this color in the Montana town of Philipsburg. An author with this surname used Montana as a setting in The Border Legion and wrote Riders of the Purple Sage.
ANSWER: gray [accept “Degrees of Gray in Philipsburg” or Zane Grey]
<TH, American Literature>
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Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Exact Match? | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 Chicago Open | 07/28/2024 | Y | 13 | 9.23 | 69% | 15% | 8% |