Question

Characters created by this author encounter words that unfreeze on the deck of a ship. This author wrote about the many inventions of Gaster, who resembles a stomach, in a book that includes chapters praising the benefits of a magical herb that may be Cannabis sativa. A critic analyzed this man’s use of “billingsgate” speech in the marketplace as part of a history of laughter. This author’s last words were “I go to seek a Great Perhaps.” Lengthy lists of food, including “chitterlings” (-5[1])that participate in a “sausage war,” appear in a (10[1])novel this author wrote under the anagrammatic pseudonym Alcofribas Nasier. This author inspired Aleister Crowley’s motto “Do what thou wilt,” which was taken from the Abbey of Thélème (10[1])(“teh-lehm”). For 10 points, Mikhail Bakhtin analyzed the profane “carnivalesque” writing of what French author who created a fictional giant that inspired the word “gargantuan”? ■END■

ANSWER: François Rabelais (“frahn-swah rob-leh”) (The herb’s name is Pantagruelion. Mikhail Bakhtin wrote Rabelais and His World.)
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Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Hari ParameswaranGeorgia Tech ACornell A82-5
Raymond WangCornell AGeorgia Tech A9110
Neal JoshiWUSTL BPenn A11910

Summary

2023 ACF Nationals04/22/2023Y2100%0%50%105.00