Question

This character is admonished for using midnight blue instead of canary yellow in a Wind of the Willows coloring book. This character and Beth Gryglewicz (“grigg-LAY-vitch”) miss a football game to dress up as con men named Billy McKean and Bobby McCool, which she records in a diary filled with a shorthand symbol (-5[1])for the phrase “I think,” a (10[1])symptom of her OCD. (10[1])This character’s grandmother tells her a story about a mailman saving her father as a child from getting stuck in the mud. As a college student, this character returns home to Beech Creek, Pennsylvania, (10[1])with Joan. (10[2]-5[1])This character’s (10[1])father is obsessed with restoring a Gothic revival house and later kills himself with a Sunbeam (10[1])bread truck, which (10[1])this character believes was related to her coming out as (10[1])a lesbian. (10[3])For 10 points, (10[1])name this narrator (10[1])and author (10[3])who (10[1])reflects (10[1])on her relationship with her closeted gay father (10[1])in the graphic memoir Fun Home. ■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: Alison Bechdel [or Alison Bechdel] 
<American Literature>
= Average correct buzz position

Summary

2023 ACF Nationals04/22/2023Y21100%0%10%120.10

Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Leo LawFlorida AYale B51-5
Joel MilesMinnesota AHarvard A5710
Tanis NielsenClaremont AGeorgia Tech B6110
William GrogerColumbia BWUSTL A9510
Eve FleisigUC Berkeley AJohns Hopkins A9710
Halle FriedmanNYU AMinnesota B97-5
Natan HoltzmanStanford ANorthwestern A9710
Arthur Delot-VilainYale AMcGill A9910
Jacob EgolDuke AFlorida B11510
Karsten RynearsonYale BFlorida A11810
Khushi UmarwadiaSouth Carolina APurdue A12810
Vincent DuNorth Carolina AChicago B13010
Walter ZhangBrown ACornell B13010
Clark SmithOhio State AColumbia A13010
Neal JoshiWUSTL BUC Berkeley B13310
Mitch McCullarIllinois AChicago C13610
Arya KarthikGeorgia Tech APenn State A13810
Ricky LiMIT AMichigan A13810
Connor MayersMaryland ARutgers A13810
Collin AceRutgers BTexas A13910
Joseph ChambersVirginia AImperial A14010
Benjamin McAvoy-BickfordPenn AHouston A14810
Puna EkkaMinnesota BNYU A15510