Question
Sampath Chawla is mistaken for a holy man while living in a guava tree in a novel by this author with this surname, for 10 points each.
[10h] Give this surname shared by authors Anita and Kiran, the latter of whom depicted the lives of Indian immigrants to the US in her novel The Inheritance of Loss.
ANSWER: Desai [accept Anita Desai or Kiran Desai]
[10e] In The Three Body-Problem, Yè Wénjié compares deforestation and pesticide use to the Cultural Revolution after reading this landmark environmentalist book by Rachel Carson.
ANSWER: Silent Spring
[10m] This author described the tree-covered world of the Terrans in The Word for World is Forest. She also depicted the ambisexual Gethenians in The Left Hand of Darkness.
ANSWER: Ursula K. Le Guin
<Jim Fan, Literature - World and Miscellaneous> ~23914~ <Editor: Jim Fan>
Data
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Exact Match? | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 PACE NSC | 06/08/2024 | Y | 36 | 16.11 | 94% | 39% | 28% |