Question
A 1978 book by Peter Matthiessen chronicles a months-long search for one of these animals. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name these animals. In the opening of a short story, the frozen carcass of one of these animals is mysteriously located at a place the Maasai called the “House of God.”
ANSWER: leopards [accept snow leopards; accept African leopards or Panthera pardus pardus; accept Panthera uncia] (The mentioned short story is “The Snows of Kilimanjaro.”)
[10e] In The Snow Leopard, Matthiessen is aided in his search by footprints on this mountain. In Jon Krakauer’s Into Thin Air, eight people die trying to summit this Himalayan mountain.
ANSWER: Mount Everest [accept Sagarmāthā; accept Chomolungma; accept Zhūmùlǎngmǎ Fēng]
[10m] In this novel, Allie Cone experiences a hallucinatory vision upon scaling Everest. She dies later in this novel after Farishta pushes her off the Everest Vilas apartment complex.
ANSWER: The Satanic Verses
<Jeffrey Liu, Literature - World and Miscellaneous> ~23612~ <Editor: Jim Fan>
Data
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Exact Match? | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 PACE NSC | 06/08/2024 | Y | 35 | 17.14 | 100% | 49% | 23% |