Packet 1: Bonus 8
This author became fluent in Malay as a colonial official, an experience he fictionalized in the comic trilogy The Long Day Wanes. For 10 points each:
[10e] What linguist invented partial conlangs for his novels M/F, Tremor of Intent, and A Clockwork Orange?
ANSWER: Anthony Burgess [or John Anthony Burgess Wilson]
[10m] In A Clockwork Orange, Alex and his droogs speak this fictional youth dialect, which incorporates elements of cockney rhyming slang and “Slav. Propaganda.” Its name is derived from the Russian word for “teen.”
ANSWER: Nadsat
[10h] Burgess invented the Ulam conlang for a film adaptation of a J.-H. Rosny novel about people of this type. In a 1955 novel, people of this type named Lok and Fa struggle as their family is slowly picked off by the New People.
ANSWER: Neanderthals [accept cavemen or troglodytes; accept archaic humans; accept prehistoric or paleolithic humans; prompt on apes, primates, hominins, or hominids; reject specific species other than Neanderthals like “Homo habilis”; reject “early modern humans” or “Cro-magnons”] (The novels are The Quest for Fire and William Golding’s The Inheritors.)
<NYU B, British Literature> | I1. Prelims Tiebreaker - NYU A + NYU B + Case Western (Tiebreaker Half 1)
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |