Packet 3: Bonus 13

Olivia Manning drew on her own time in wartime café society for The Great Fortune, the first novel in her trilogy about this region. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this transnational region. Rebecca West wrote of visiting this region since it “might explain to me how I shall die, and why” in the huge travelogue Black Lamb and Grey Falcon.
ANSWER: Balkan Peninsula [or Balkans; accept Yugoslavia; accept The Balkan Trilogy; prompt on Eastern Europe or Southeastern Europe]
[10e] When the Going Was Good collects the interwar travel writing of this author of Brideshead Revisited, who served as a liaison to Tito’s Partisans during World War II.
ANSWER: Evelyn Waugh [or Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh]
[10h] This scholar describes the English traveler as “a hypertrophied freak of British empiricism” in Abroad, a study of the interwar travelogue. In a 1975 book, this American reads authors like Edmund Blunden to argue that trench warfare’s “suffering and irony” shaped 20th-century culture.
ANSWER: Paul Fussell (The book is The Great War and Modern Memory.)
<Editors, British Literature> | L. Playoffs 3 (Editors 3)

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BruinNYU B1010020ME
Chicago AVirginia Tech1010020ME
Chicago BCornell010010E
Columbia AUC Berkeley B1010020ME
Georgia Tech CTexas010010E
Illinois BSwarthmore010010E
IndianaUC Berkeley A1010020ME
Johns HopkinsGeorgia Tech B010010E
MITCambridge010010E
MichiganOhio State1010020ME
MinnesotaIllinois A1010020ME
NYU AToronto A1010020ME
Northwestern AHarvard0101020EH
Northwestern BUCF010010E
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PurdueGeorgetown010010E
Stanford AMaryland A1010020ME
Stanford BRutgers1010020ME
Toronto BPittsburgh1010020ME
VanderbiltBritish Columbia010010E
VirginiaColumbia B0101020EH
WashUUCLA1010020ME
WaterlooNorth Carolina1010020ME

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Main Site2026-04-17✓2416.25100%54%8%