Packet 11: Bonus 3
Answer the following about the fictional town of Macondo, the setting of One Hundred Years of Solitude. For 10 points each:
[10h] The town was first introduced in this Gabriel García Márquez novella about the burial of a doctor, which is often published in English alongside the short story “A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings.”
ANSWER: Leaf Storm [or La Hojarasca]
[10e] García Márquez got the name of Macondo from a plantation that grew this curved yellow fruit in his birthplace of Aracataca, Colombia.
ANSWER: bananas
[10m] BP employees chose the name Macondo for a prospect in the Gulf of Mexico which was the site of this 2010 ecological disaster.
ANSWER: Deepwater Horizon oil spill [or Deepwater Horizon drilling rig explosion or Deepwater Horizon disaster; prompt on BP oil spill]
<Other Academic — Andrew Gao> | SHOW-ME Four Packet 11
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |