Packet 2: Tossup 10

In this city, a boy thinks “if we fought with real swords I would kill him” as he lies to a Nobel-prize winning astronomer (15[1])who then punches him (15[1])in the head. That boy, who is disappointed when he meets a hack travel writer his mother calls “Liberace” in this city, reads Homer in Greek as a toddler. (15[1]-5[1])In another novel, (15[2])a test with sodium amytal causes a man stationed in this city to think over the phrase “you never did the Kenosha Kid.” (15[4]-5[1])A resident (-5[1])of this city (-5[1])tries to give her (-5[1])(*) genius son, Ludo, (10[1])male (10[1])role (10[1])models by showing (-5[1])him a Kurosawa film in Helen DeWitt’s novel The Last Samurai. Ned Pointsman uses Pavlovian conditioning to investigate attacks (10[1])on this city that (-5[1])are predicted using a Poisson distribution (10[3]-5[2])by (10[1]-5[1])Roger (10[1])Mexico. (10[5])For 10 points, “a screaming comes (10[1])across” what city’s (10[1]-5[2])sky at the opening of Gravity’s Rainbow? (10[2])■END■ (10[7]0[13])

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