Question
An author who took her name from these plants described a girl becoming a chef for her friend and his trans mother in the novel Kitchen. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name these plants. A poet abandoned his pen name of “unripe peach” after caring for one of these plants once made “disgusting” by “silvergrass.”
ANSWER: bananas [accept banana trees; accept Banana Yoshimoto; accept bashō or Matsuo Bashō; prompt on trees]
[10e] Matsuo Bashō praised his banana tree and other plants in these short Japanese poems with a pattern of five, seven, then five syllables per line.
ANSWER: haiku
[10m] This reclusive 8th century poet claimed his “thatched hut lacks all color” after a storm destroyed his prized conifer Nánmù. The speaker describes the “horses neighing and snorting” in this author’s poem “Ballad of the Army Carts.”
ANSWER: Dù Fǔ [or Tu Fu or Dou Fu]
<Ganon Evans, Literature - World and Miscellaneous> ~23524~ <Editor: Jim Fan>
Data
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Exact Match? | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 PACE NSC | 06/08/2024 | Y | 36 | 18.33 | 100% | 53% | 31% |