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A visit to the Salzburg salt mines led this author to analogize falling in love to the process of “crystallization” in On Love. For 10 points each:
[10e] An experience of fainting in the Basilica of Santa Croce (“KROH-chay”) inspired a “syndrome” triggered by great beauty, named for what author of The Charterhouse of Parma?
ANSWER: Stendhal [or Marie-Henri Beyle; accept Stendhal syndrome]
[10m] This poet who promoted “magical idealism” wrote much of his work while director of the Saxony salt mines. A 13th-century Minnesinger (“MIN-uh-zing-er”) goes spelunking and searches for a blue flower in a fragmentary novel by this author.
ANSWER: Novalis [or Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg] (The novel is Heinrich von Ofterdingen.)
[10h] A visit to the Wieliczka (“v’yeh-LEECH-ka”) Salt Mines informed depictions of the Egyptian Labyrinth in this author’s novel Pharaoh. In a Positivist novel by this author, a merchant abandons science and pines after a shallow aristocrat to enter high society.
ANSWER: Bolesław Prus (“prooss”) (The novel is The Doll.)
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TeamOpponentPart 1Part 2Part 3TotalParts
Arizona StateOttawa1010020EM
Columbia ANorthwestern1010020EM
Cornell AGeorgia Tech10101030EMH
FloridaPenn State100010E
Georgia StateBritish Columbia1010020EM
Illinois AUC Berkeley A10101030EMH
IndianaRutgers10101030EMH
Johns HopkinsHarvard100010E
MarylandNorth Carolina B100010E
MinnesotaIowa State100010E
NYUWaterloo B1010020EM
StanfordNorth Carolina A10101030EMH
TexasToronto C1010020EM
Toronto AWaterloo A1010020EM
UC Berkeley BLSE1010020EM
UCFWinona State100010E
VanderbiltOhio State100010E
VirginiaIllinois B100010E
Virginia TechToronto B1010020EM
WUSTL AChicago A1010020EM
YaleWUSTL B1010020EM

Summary

TournamentExact Match?HeardPPBEasy %Medium %Hard %
2025 ACF NationalsYes2118.57100%67%19%