Packet 3: Bonus 10
Leopoldo Marechal used this text as a model for the structure of his Joycean novel Adán Buenosayres. For 10 points each:
[10h] Jorge Luis Borges calls choosing between two possible literary deaths a “false problem” in one of nine essays on what text? This text appears in the conventional English title for a novel whose Spanish title instead puns on Pavane for a Dead Princess.
ANSWER: The Divine Comedy [or Divina Commedia; accept Inferno, Purgatorio, or Paradiso] (Borges collected “The False Problem of Ugolino” in Nine Dantesque Essays. Guillermo Cabrera Infante’s novel La Habana para un Infante Difunto was translated into English as Infante’s Inferno.)
[10e] This Borges story reworks Dante into the hack poet Daneri. This story’s narrator descends into a basement and sees his dead beloved, Beatriz, in a point that contains the universe.
ANSWER: “The Aleph” [or “El Aleph”]
[10m] Borges’ fragment “Inferno, I, 32” appears before “Borges and I” in a collection whose American edition is titled for these animals. In a Borges story, a Scotsman looking for these animals finds blue stones that multiply.
ANSWER: tigers [or tigres; accept Dreamtigers; accept “Blue Tigers” or “Tigres azules”; prompt on cats]
<Editors, World Literature> | L. Playoffs 3 (Editors 3)
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 | 17.08 | 100% | 67% | 4% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| British Columbia | Vanderbilt | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Brown | Maryland B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Bruin | NYU B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Chicago A | Virginia Tech | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Chicago B | Cornell | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Columbia B | Virginia | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Georgetown | Purdue | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Georgia Tech C | Texas | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Johns Hopkins | Georgia Tech B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| MIT | Cambridge | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Michigan | Ohio State | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Minnesota | Illinois A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| NYU A | Toronto A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Northwestern A | Harvard | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Penn State | Georgia Tech A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Pittsburgh | Toronto B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Stanford A | Maryland A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Stanford B | Rutgers | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Swarthmore | Illinois B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| UC Berkeley A | Indiana | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | HEM |
| UC Berkeley B | Columbia A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| UCF | Northwestern B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| WashU | UCLA | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Waterloo | North Carolina | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Main Site | 2026-04-17 | ✓ | 24 | 17.08 | 100% | 67% | 4% |