Question
An author from this country lost the Nobel Prize in Literature to Albert Camus by a single vote. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this home country of Nikos Kazantzakis (“kaz-uhn-DZAK-is”). His character Zorba meets Madame Hortense on this country’s island of Crete.
ANSWER: Greece [accept Hellenic Republic or Ellada, or Elliniki Dimokratia]
[10m] Kazantzakis wrote a “Modern Sequel” to this work, whose first four books follow the protagonist’s son Telemachus.
ANSWER: The Odyssey
[10h] Kazantzakis’s title character Zorba the Greek has this profession in Crete. Etienne Lantier leads a strike of members in this specific profession in Emile Zola’s novel Germinal (“zher-mee-NAHL”).
ANSWER: coal miners
<Literature - European Literature - Long Fiction>
Data
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Exact Match? | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Snowball Fight 2 | 1/11/2025 | N | 3 | 23.33 | 100% | 100% | 33% |
| 2024 FARSI @ Columbia | 12/08/2024 | Y | 11 | 25.45 | 100% | 91% | 64% |
| 2024 FARSI @ Columbia | 12/08/2024 | Y | 9 | 21.11 | 100% | 33% | 78% |