Packet 1: Bonus 17

God bursts “into wild guffaws” after the protagonist jumps off a cliff in Louis Aragon’s Dadaist retelling of this novel. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this 18th-century bestseller that critiques luxury, war, and divine monarchy. Minerva, disguised as Mentor, guides a character from Homer’s Odyssey in this didactic novel by François Fénelon.
ANSWER: The Adventures of Telemachus, son of Ulysses [or Les Aventures de Télémaque, fils d’Ulysse; prompt on Télémaque or Telemachus]
[10e] This book’s protagonist reads The Adventures of Telemachus after being gifted a copy by his eventual wife Sophie. This novelistic treatise by Jean-Jacques Rousseau is subtitled “On Education.”
ANSWER: Émile, or On Education
[10m] Marivaux published Le Télémaque travesti, a burlesque of Fénelon, during this literary dispute in the French academy. This “quarrel” pitted classicists like Boileau (“bwah-LOH”) against contemporary writers like Charles Perrault.
ANSWER: Quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns [or Querelle des Anciens et des Modernes]
<Editors, European Literature> | J. Playoffs 1 (Editors 1)

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Chicago AUC Berkeley B0101020EM
Columbia ANorthwestern A010010E
Columbia BPenn State010010E
Illinois APittsburgh0101020EM
Illinois BUCF010010E
IndianaVirginia Tech010010E
Johns HopkinsNYU B0101020EM
MITUCLA010010E
MinnesotaCambridge010010E
NYU AMaryland A10101030HEM
North CarolinaMaryland B0101020EM
Ohio StateBruin010010E
Stanford AHarvard010010E
TexasToronto B010010E
Toronto AUC Berkeley A010010E
VanderbiltWashU010010E
VirginiaGeorgia Tech B0101020EM

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TournamentEditionMatchHeardPPBE %M %H %
Main Site2026-04-17✓1814.44100%39%6%