Question

In a novel by this author, a “ball of fire” magnetizes a set of tools and causes a nearby compass to begin pointing south rather than north. A character created by this author described as the “archangel of hatred” is revealed to be Prince Dakkar in The Mysterious Island. The narrator of a novel by this author (10[1])encounters a giant humanoid herding mastodons and crosses an underground ocean on a raft of petrified wood. In another novel by this author, Pierre Aronnax sees the lost city of Atlantis (10[1])while voyaging on the Nautilus, (10[2])a submarine (10[1])built by Captain Nemo. (10[1])For 10 points, name this French author of Journey to the Center of the Earth and 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. ■END■

ANSWER: Jules Verne [or Jules Gabriel Verne]
<Literature - European Literature>
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Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Frank Paz (DII)Swarthmore APenn5610
Rio Lucenet (UG)NYU CUniversity of Delaware A8710
Wade Rogers (DII)FordhamColumbia A9210
Ben Rotko (UG)Swarthmore BColumbia B9210
Ashish KumbhardareRowanNYU B9410
Zaid Asif (DII)NYU ALehigh9810

Summary

2023 ACF Fall (Rutgers)10/14/2023Y6100%0%0%86.50