Question
In a story by this author, a family pretends to be on a fishing trip before William Thomas destroys his family’s way home to Minnesota so they can escape a war. This author wrote a story where the psychologist David McClean picks up Lydia’s bloody scarf after visiting the nursery of two troubled children. In a story by this author, Travis tells a character to dig bullets from the mouth of an animal marked with red paint before that man realizes Deutscher won an election. In a novel by this author, the protagonist learns a girl is hit by a car after she says to him that “I’m seventeen and I’m crazy.” This author of “The Veldt” wrote about Eckels stepping on a butterfly in “A Sound of Thunder.” For 10 points, name this author of The Martian Chronicles, who wrote about Guy Montag in Fahrenheit 451. ■END■
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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Eshan Pant | NYU A | Princeton A | 53 | 10 |
William Orr | Yale A | Vassar | 56 | 10 |
Jason Qin | Columbia B | Rutgers A | 56 | 10 |
Chenyao Liu | Penn B | Yale C | 66 | 10 |
Alex Moon | Penn A | Rutgers B | 76 | 10 |
Forrest Weintraub | Columbia A | Cornell C | 84 | 10 |
Ethan Furman | Haverford | Princeton B | 137 | 10 |
Ashish Kumbhardare | Rowan A | NYU B | 141 | 10 |
William Helman | Bard A | Columbia C | 147 | 10 |