Question

After interrupting a figure at prayer, a character in a story by this author smiles at a slim girl before bursting into tears. The godparents of a protagonist created by this author read off names from a calendar until his mother settles on naming him after his father. A character created by this author is caught with a false passport trying to escape to Riga in a stagecoach. In a story by this author, a “prominent personage” refuses to help the protagonist (10[1])track down a stolen item he paid Petrovich 150 rubles for. The title feature (-5[1])of a story by this author is found by the barber Yakovlevitch in a loaf of bread after it detaches from Kovalyov’s (10[1])face. For 10 points, name this author of “The Nose” (10[1])and (10[1])“The Overcoat.” ■END■ (10[1]0[4])

ANSWER: Nikolai Gogol [or Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol]
<Literature - European Literature>
= Average correct buzz position

Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Ivy Chen (DII)PrincetonUniversity of Delaware B8110
Shadmehr Khan (UG)RutgersMaryland95-5
Emily Bussa (UG)MarylandRutgers11710
Frank Paz (DII)Swarthmore ANYU C12710
Ashish KumbhardareRowanFordham12810
Will Hollister (DII)LehighNYU B13110
Udbhav Bodapati (DII)University of Delaware ASwarthmore B1310
Ben Rotko (UG)Swarthmore BUniversity of Delaware A1310
Luke McCrory (DII)NYU BLehigh1310
EdwardColumbia BNYU A1310

Summary

2023 ACF Fall (Rutgers)10/14/2023Y771%0%14%116.80