Question

A story by this author ends with the narrator imagining hairs strung on a fiddle crying out “Mother, mother, you have murdered me!” after she strangles the title character with his own hair and releases (10[1])his caged birds. In another story by this author, a man (10[1])gives the narrator a fire opal ring that had been in his family since an ancestor received it from Catherine de’ Medici. This author wrote about a feral girl taken in by nuns in the story “Wolf-Alice.” (10[1]-5[1])In a story (10[2])by this author, a wealthy marquis gives the narrator (10[2])a choker made (10[1])of rubies, (10[1]-5[1])prefiguring his plan (10[1])to (10[1])decapitate her and place her body in a room with the corpses of his previous wives. (10[3]-5[1])“The Courtship of Mr. Lyon” and “The Company of Wolves” are among this author’s Gothic, (10[1])feminist adaptations (10[1])of fairy tales. (-5[1])For 10 points, name this author of The Bloody (10[2])Chamber. (10[2])■END■ (10[3])

ANSWER: Angela Carter [or Angela Olive Pearce; or Angela Olive Stalker]
<British Literature>
= Average correct buzz position

Summary

2023 ACF Nationals04/22/2023Y23100%0%17%112.65

Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Caleb KendrickMaryland AWUSTL A3410
Shahar SchwartzUC Berkeley AColumbia A4510
Grace LiuMIT ANorthwestern A82-5
Wenying WuToronto AMinnesota A8210
Rosa XiaCornell BIndiana A8510
Tim MorrisonStanford AGeorgia Tech A8510
Darren PetrosinoRutgers AVirginia A9410
Andrew HannaVanderbilt AJohns Hopkins A9410
Ned TagtmeierChicago AChicago B9710
Rohan ShelkeUC Berkeley BImperial A9910
Tracy MirkinFlorida ABrown A99-5
Halle FriedmanNYU AMichigan A10210
Daniel SheinbergYale ADuke A10310
Mitch McCullarIllinois AClaremont A119-5
Vedul PalavajjhalaWUSTL BIowa State A11910
Collin AceRutgers BFlorida B11910
Raymond WangCornell AOhio State A11910
Jim FanNorth Carolina AHarvard A13410
Khushi UmarwadiaSouth Carolina AGeorgia Tech B13610
Ani PerumallaPenn State AMcGill A139-5
Alex PijanowskiPurdue AHouston A14810
Matthew SiffYale BPenn A14810
Tomás Aguilar-FragaClaremont AIllinois A14910
Andrew SalijNorthwestern AMIT A14910
Walter ZhangBrown AFlorida A15010
Jisoo YooTexas AChicago C15010
Kevin FanMcGill APenn State A15010