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2009 ACF Fall - Packet by Princeton A and Cornell - #3 [report this tossup]
Literature — European
In one scene in this play, two characters tie their belts together to trap another character. Earlier, the protagonists employ tennis scoring in their Game of Questions. Two characters in this play hear music emanating from some barrels before the arrival of pirates prompts them to hide. The protagonists encounter the Player, who leads a troupe of actors called the Tragedians in a performance of the Murder of Gonzago. This play opens as one character continuously wins a coin flipping game, and ends with the English ambassador announcing the deaths of the title characters at Elsinore Castle. For 10 points, name this Tom Stoppard play centered on two minor characters from Hamlet.
Answer: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

2009 ACF Fall - Packet by UCLA B - #3 [report this tossup]
Literature — European
This poet wrote that to “get with child a mandrake root” is more likely than to find a “woman true, and fair” in one poem. This author delivered a deathbed sermon about “Death's Duel” and wrote that “virtuous men pass mildly away” in a poem that uses a compass metaphor to connect him to his love. This author of the lines “Go and Catch a Falling Star” tells the listener to "mark this" titular creature that “suck'd me first, and now sucks thee" in his poem “The Flea.” This poet coined the phrase “For whom the bell tolls” in his Meditation XVII and wrote the sonnet “Death Be Not Proud.” For 10 points name this English poet of “A Valediction Forbidding Mourning.”
Answer: John Donne

2009 ACF Fall - Packet by Princeton A and Cornell - #7 [report this tossup]
Literature — European
This relation was discovered by Irving Fisher in the 1920s, thirty-two years before its namesake published his work on it. The New Classical version of it was developed by Robert Lucas. Robert Solow and Paul Samuelson showed that this it applied to the United States. It was criticized by Edmund Phelps and Milton Friedman, who argued that it could not hold in the long run. This relation, which is similar to Okun's law, came under increasing attack in the 1970s due to stagflation. For 10 points, identify this curve in economics that gives an inverse relationship between inflation and unemployment.
Answer: Phillips curve

2009 ACF Fall - Packet by Princeton A and Cornell - #11 [report this tossup]
Literature — European
One work by this author centers on a play about the pilot Rico Verri directed by Dr. Hinkfuss's. The protagonist of one of this author's novels abandons his wife Romilda and wins big at Monte Carlo before trading identities with a dead man. This author of Tonight We Improvise and The Late Mattia Pascal wrote about a man who falls off of his horse and believes he is the title Holy Emperor. One of his plays is partially set in Madame Pace's shop and sees the Father, the Mother, the Stepdaughter, the Son, The Boy, and the Little Girl ask the Stage Manager to put them in a play. For 10 points, identify this Italian author of Henry IV and Six Characters in Search of an Author.
Answer: Luigi Pirandello

2009 ACF Fall - Packet by St Anselm’s HS and Truman State A - #8 [report this tossup]
Literature — European
In this work, the protagonist's uncle introduces him to Huld, whose nurse becomes the protagonist's lover. After the protagonist encounters a tradesman named Block, he is unable to sway the Whipper from beating two agents. Despite the nosy Assistant Manager, the protagonist manages to obtain the address of Titorelli, a painter of the Magistrates who sells the protagonist a set of identical landscapes. The protagonist of this novel describes his own death as “Like a Dog!” when he is stabbed by two men. For 10 points, name this work about the bank clerk Joseph K., an unfinished novel by Franz Kafka about the title mysterious legal proceeding.
Answer: The Trial [or Der Prozess]

2009 ACF Fall - Packet by Vanderbilt, Brown A, and Iowa - #2 [report this tossup]
Literature — European
One character in this novel adorns a cave with marble after burying the protagonist's severed head in it. The protagonist of this novel steals Voltaire books from a library, and his friend Foque offers him a position in his lumber business. The corrupt poorhouse official Valenod writes an anonymous letter that results in the protagonist losing his tutoring job. After he leaves the seminary at Besancon, the protagonist of this work has his marriage to the wealthy Mathilde de la Mole ended when he shoots at Madame de Renal after she reveals his affair with her. For 10 points, name this novel in which the Napoleonic ambition of Julien Sorel results in his downfall, a novel by Stendhal.
Answer: The Red and the Black [or Le Rouge et le noir]

2009 ACF Fall - Packet by St Anselm’s HS and Truman State A - #11 [report this tossup]
Literature — European
While staying at the Villa Esmeralda, the title character of this work meets the gondoliers Daniele and Giovanni and is urged to marry the abstract painter Duncan Forbes by her older sister Hilda. Bertha Coutts spreads rumors about her husband's infidelity, and one character in this novel has an affair with the playwright Michaelis, one of the intellectuals who gather at the estate of Wragby. The owner of that estate drives a motorized wheelchair after being paralyzed in World War I, an injury that leads the title character to seek companionship from the gamekeeper Oliver Mellors. For 10 points, name this novel in which Clifford is cheated on by Constance Reid, a work of DH Lawrence.
Answer: Lady Chatterley's Lover

2009 ACF Fall - Packet by St Anselm’s HS and Truman State A - #20 [report this tossup]
Literature — European
This poet wrote about “the one landscape that we, the inconstant ones, Are consistently homesick for” in one work. In another of this poet's works, “the thin-lipped armorer, Hephaestos” carves a martial scene instead of a bucolic one into the title object. This author of “In Praise of Limestone” and “The Shield of Achilles” began one poem in “one of the dives, On Fifty-second Street.” This poet opened his “Funeral Blues” with “Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,” and wrote about a “delicate ship” ignoring “a boy falling out of the sky” in a poem based on a Breughel painting. For 10 points, name this author of “September 1, 1939” and “Musee des Beaux Arts.”
Answer: Wystan Hugh Auden

2009 ACF Fall - Packet by Washington A and South Carolina - #14 [report this tossup]
Literature — European
This author mentions “Callimachus, Who handled marble as if it were bronze,” in a poem that includes “a long legged bird” and “Two Chinamen, behind them a third” inscribed into the title gem. The narrator of another of his poems wishes for “such a form as Grecian goldsmiths make,” and asks “sages standing in God's holy fire” to “be the singing-masters” of his soul after leaving a place that is “no country for old men.” This author of “Lapis Lazuli” also asked “what rough beast” “Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born” in a poem in which “Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold.” For 10 points, name this Irish poet of “Sailing to Byzantium,” and “The Second Coming.”
Answer: William Butler Yeats

2009 ACF Fall - Packet by UCLA B - #19 [report this tossup]
Literature — European
The switchboard operator Madelaine argues with her husband about how to get rid of a constantly growing corpse in the next room in this author's play Amédée. The title character lures people to their death by offering to show them “a picture of the colonel” in his The Killer. The Orator is a deaf mute who is left alone after the Old Man and Old Woman jump out windows in this author's play The Chairs. This author used the recurring character of Berenger in Exit the King and a play in which Berenger's girlfriend Daisy and the rest of the world transform into the title horned animals. For 10 points, name this Romanian-French playwright whose absurdist works include The Bald Soprano and Rhinoceros.  
Answer: Eugene Ionesco

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