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This author surveyed the literary history of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion in one of his Six Walks in the Fictional Woods. For 10 points each:
[10e] What author wrote of Simone Simonini forging the Protocols in The Prague Cemetery and drew on them as inspiration for “The Plan” in Foucault’s Pendulum?
ANSWER: Umberto Eco
[10h] Eco claims the Protocols plagiarized Maurice Joly’s play The Dialogue in Hell, which itself plagiarized this novel. This best-selling serial novel spawned an urban genre imitated by writers like Paul Féval and George Lippard.
ANSWER: The Mysteries of Paris [or Les Mystères de Paris] (by Eugène Sue. The genre is the “city mystery.”)
[10m] Eco’s depiction of Sergei Nilus in Foucault’s Pendulum adapts this author’s story about the Protocols, “The Book of Kings and Fools.” That story appears in this Serbian author’s postmodern collection The Encyclopedia of the Dead.
ANSWER: Danilo Kiš (“keesh”)
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TeamOpponentPart 1Part 2Part 3TotalParts
British ColumbiaOttawa1001020EM
Chicago BGeorgia Tech10101030EHM
Columbia AWaterloo A100010E
Cornell AToronto B10101030EHM
Cornell BColumbia B100010E
FloridaLSE100010E
HarvardMIT100010E
Illinois AStanford1001020EM
Illinois BVanderbilt100010E
MichiganUCF1001020EM
MinnesotaVirginia Tech1001020EM
North Carolina AIndiana100010E
North Carolina BVirginia100010E
NorthwesternChicago A100010E
Ohio StateRIT100010E
Penn StateArizona State1001020EM
RutgersToronto A100010E
TexasIowa State100010E
Toronto CJohns Hopkins100010E
UC Berkeley AWUSTL A10101030EHM
UC Berkeley BNYU100010E
WUSTL BGeorgia State100010E
Waterloo BYale1001020EM
Winona StateMaryland100010E

Summary

TournamentExact Match?HeardPPBEasy %Medium %Hard %
2025 ACF NationalsYes2415.00100%38%13%