Packet 3: Bonus 16

An 1888 novel from this country has a title that references both the feline appearance of its central family and an acronym for financial reforms proposed by an ex-finance minister. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this country whose foremost realist author wrote the novel Miau and a cycle of 46 historical novels titled National Episodes. In a later novel from this country, the title character rues his murder of the pimp Stretch.
ANSWER: Spain [or España] (The latter novel is The Family of Pascual Duarte by Camilo José Cela.)
[10h] This prolific translator made a 2025 translation of Benito Pérez Galdós’s Miau. This translator of the oeuvre of Javier Marías and José Saramago has won the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize more than any other person.
ANSWER: Margaret Jull Costa
[10e] Pérez Galdós’s National Episodes is sometimes called the Spanish equivalent to this sprawling series of interlinked novels and stories by Honoré de Balzac.
ANSWER: The Human Comedy [or La Comédie humaine]
<Editors, European Literature> | L. Playoffs 3 (Editors 3)

HeardPPBE %M %H %
2414.17100%29%13%

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TeamOpponentPart 1Part 2Part 3TotalParts
British ColumbiaVanderbilt10101030MHE
BrownMaryland B001010E
BruinNYU B001010E
Chicago AVirginia Tech1001020ME
Columbia AUC Berkeley B001010E
Columbia BVirginia001010E
CornellChicago B001010E
Georgia Tech CTexas001010E
HarvardNorthwestern A001010E
Johns HopkinsGeorgia Tech B001010E
MITCambridge1001020ME
MichiganOhio State001010E
MinnesotaIllinois A001010E
Penn StateGeorgia Tech A10101030MHE
PittsburghToronto B001010E
PurdueGeorgetown001010E
Stanford AMaryland A1001020ME
Stanford BRutgers001010E
SwarthmoreIllinois B001010E
Toronto ANYU A1001020ME
UC Berkeley AIndiana1001020ME
UCFNorthwestern B001010E
UCLAWashU0101020HE
WaterlooNorth Carolina001010E

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TournamentEditionMatchHeardPPBE %M %H %
Main Site2026-04-17✓2414.17100%29%13%