Packet 3: Bonus 13
Kofi Awoonor’s collection The Promise of Hope was the first volume published in a University of Nebraska Press series named for poetry books from this place. For 10 points each:
[10e] What place’s “writers” name a long-running series of books by Heinemann? Penguin’s anthology of poetry from this place includes works by Christopher Okigbo, Okot p’Bitek (“aw-COT puh-bee-TEK”), and Agostinho Neto.
ANSWER: Africa [accept Sub-Saharan Africa; accept African Poetry Book Series or African Writers Series or The Penguin Book of Modern African Poetry]
[10m] An African Poetry Book Series volume called I Have a Home, There is a We collects the exile poetry of Mohammed Khelef Ghassani, who is from this archipelago. The author of the 1994 novel Paradise was born in this archipelago.
ANSWER: Zanzibar (The author is Abdulrazak Gurnah.)
[10h] The African Poetry Book Series also published a poem by Tsitsi Ella Jaji praising Patricia Jabbeh Wesley, whose exile poetry reflects on this conflict. The memoir The Dragons, The Giant, The Women is about this conflict.
ANSWER: First Liberian Civil War (The Dragons, The Giant, The Women is by Wayétu Moore.)
<UCLA, World Literature> | C. Prelims 3 - Cambridge + UCLA + Stanford B + Virginia
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | 13.33 | 81% | 52% | 0% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brown | NYU A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Chicago A | Georgia Tech A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Columbia B | Indiana | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Cornell | Waterloo | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | M |
| Georgia Tech C | Bruin | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Maryland A | MIT | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Michigan | Stanford A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Minnesota | Penn State | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| North Carolina | Columbia A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| Northwestern A | Illinois B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| Northwestern B | UC Berkeley B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Ohio State | WashU | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Pittsburgh | NYU B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| Swarthmore | Harvard | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | M |
| Texas | Georgetown | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| Toronto A | Purdue | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| Toronto B | Chicago B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| UC Berkeley A | British Columbia | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| UCF | Rutgers | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Vanderbilt | Johns Hopkins | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Virginia Tech | Georgia Tech B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Main Site | 2026-04-17 | ✓ | 21 | 13.33 | 81% | 52% | 0% |