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2001 ACF Nationals - Packet by Carleton - #21 [report this tossup]
Bulfinch states that he was a cousin of Bellerophon, but does not explain the details of the connection. Using his powers, he was able to gain an entire kingdom for himself and his brother, Bias. He did so by learning the cause of the curse upon sickly Prince Iphoclus. He then removed a knife from a nymph's tree, created a potion with the rust, cured the child, and received his wish for the kingdom of King Phylacus. FTP, name this Greek figure who, by saving two baby snakes from death, gained the ability to understand the speech of all animals.
Answer: Melampus
2000 ACF Nationals - Packet by Oklahoma - #21 [report this tossup]
This author, embittered by his service in WWII, became more polemical as time went on. His Adam, Where Art Thou? is an account of the horrors of war, and Absent Without Leave decries militarism. In The Clown, he indicted postwar materialism, while he traced the declining fortunes of a widow in pre- and post-war Germany in Group Portrait of a Lady. FTP name this 1972 Nobel Prize winner and author of Billiards at Half-Past Nine.
Answer: Heinrich Boll
2004 ACF Nationals - Packet by Berkeley - #13 [report this tossup]
One of the main characters defeats the hosts of Pifco and Jodhpur on the Field of Ha-Ha. That character's chief religious ceremony makes use of the Ark of the Manbit, and his prayer recounts how the King of Spit, Fleckwus, spoke out of his chinkle-chankle and offered his only begotten son, the title character. Centering on Dr. Dysart, FTP, name this play in which Alan Strang creates and worships a personal horse-god, written by Peter Shaffer.
Answer: Equus