Round 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 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. In another novel, a test with sodium amytal causes a man stationed in this city to think over the phrase “you never did the Kenosha Kid.” A resident of this city tries to give her (*) genius son, Ludo, male role (10[1])models by showing him a Kurosawa film in Helen DeWitt’s novel The Last Samurai. Ned Pointsman uses Pavlovian conditioning to investigate attacks on this city that are predicted using a Poisson distribution by Roger Mexico. For 10 points, “a screaming comes across” what city’s sky at the opening of Gravity’s Rainbow? ■END■

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