Packet 8: Bonus 13

The audience is addressed as “noble and illustrious” performers of this activity before a digression on Silenus boxes in the prologue of a book translated by Thomas Urquhart. For 10 points each:
[10m] Gargamelle gives birth to the title character immediately after a chapter consisting of a ribald “dialogue” about what activity? At the end of a five-book sequence, an oracle uses a single word to compel Panurge to do this action.
ANSWER: drinking alcohol [accept guzzling or boozing]
[10e] Many paeans to the joys of drinking appear in François Rabelais’s novels titled for this gluttonous giant and his son, Pantagruel.
ANSWER: Gargantua
[10h] Most of Chapter 22 of Gargantua consists of a list of these things enjoyed by Gargantua, which include nivinivinack, the twirly whirlytrill, bumdockdousse, Marseilles figs, and torture.
ANSWER: games [or jeux]
<Editors, European Literature> | H. Prelims 8 - Stanford A + Georgia Tech C + Columbia A + Columbia B

HeardPPBE %M %H %
2011.00100%10%0%

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TeamOpponentPart 1Part 2Part 3TotalParts
BrownUC Berkeley B010010E
BruinMichigan010010E
CambridgeBritish Columbia010010E
Chicago AWashU010010E
GeorgetownSwarthmore010010E
Georgia Tech ATexas010010E
Georgia Tech BToronto A010010E
HarvardOhio State010010E
Illinois AStanford B010010E
Illinois BChicago B010010E
IndianaWaterloo010010E
MITPittsburgh1010020ME
MinnesotaPurdue010010E
NYU BMaryland A010010E
North CarolinaRutgers010010E
Northwestern BVanderbilt010010E
Toronto BNorthwestern A010010E
UCLAMaryland B010010E
VirginiaUC Berkeley A010010E
Virginia TechPenn State1010020ME

Summary

TournamentEditionMatchHeardPPBE %M %H %
Main Site2026-04-17✓2011.00100%10%0%