Question
A writers’ workshop with this name advertises via bright yellow boxes filled with newsprint catalogs. For 10 points each:
[10m] Give this name of a “book mart” where an iconic photo of American literati was taken at a 1948 party for Edith Sitwell. Its sign “Wise Men Fish Here” references a legend about an English village of this name, which also inspired Washington Irving to use this name as a moniker for his home city.
ANSWER: Gotham [or Gotham Writers Workshop; or Gotham Book Mart]
[10e] After being left out of the Gotham photo, this author never set foot there again. This Armenian-American author wrote the novel The Human Comedy and the play The Time of Your Life.
ANSWER: William Saroyan
[10h] This “Pope of Greenwich Village” stands next to W. H. Auden in the photo. E. E. Cummings’s poem “Doveglion” is dedicated to this Filipino modernist who invented “reversed consonance” and “comma poems.”
ANSWER: José Garcia Villa (“VEE-yah”)
<AP, American Literature>
Data
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Exact Match? | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 Chicago Open | 07/28/2024 | Y | 12 | 14.17 | 83% | 58% | 0% |