Question
The title character of a short story by this author suggests, “maybe it was good to smell your own stink,” in a passage in which he slowly crushes an empty beer can. At the end of a story by this author, the narrator is reminded of his daughter’s death from polio as he watches a glass of Scotch and milk shake “like the very cup of trembling” on top of a piano. After reading about his arrest in the newspaper, an unnamed math teacher takes in his (*) heroin-addicted brother and watches him play jazz at a nightclub in a story that this author included in the collection Going to Meet the Man. A series of religious visions on a threshing-floor opens the final section of a novel by this author set on the 14th birthday of a preacher’s son named John Grimes. For 10 points, name this author of “Sonny’s Blues” and Go Tell It on the Mountain. ■END■
Summary
2023 ARCADIA at Emory | Emory, Duke, Yale | Y | 3 | 100% | 33% | 33% | 123.33 |
2023 ARCADIA at Duke | Emory, Duke, Yale | Y | 3 | 100% | 33% | 0% | 113.67 |
2023 ARCADIA at Imperial | Imperial | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 119.40 |
2023 ARCADIA Online | Maryland, Online | Y | 3 | 100% | 33% | 0% | 116.67 |
2023 ARCADIA at Ohio State | Ohio State, Texas | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 121.33 |
2023 ARCADIA at Texas | Ohio State, Texas | Y | 3 | 100% | 33% | 33% | 129.33 |
2023 ARCADIA at WUSTL | Premiere | N | 3 | 100% | 33% | 0% | 122.00 |
2023 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley | Premiere | N | 2 | 100% | 50% | 50% | 87.00 |
2023 ARCADIA at Carleton University | Premiere | N | 3 | 100% | 33% | 0% | 113.33 |
2023 ARCADIA at Claremont Colleges | Premiere | N | 1 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 111.00 |
2023 ARCADIA at Indiana | Premiere | N | 5 | 100% | 0% | 20% | 119.80 |
2023 ARCADIA at RIT | Premiere | N | 2 | 100% | 0% | 100% | 158.00 |
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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Jack Oberman | South Carolina A | North Carolina B | 66 | 15 |
Roan Dowling | Ganon Evans Fan Club | Farrellmagnetism | 66 | 15 |
Jeffrey Xu | Georgia Tech C | Georgia A | 71 | 15 |
William Barnes | Tennessee A | Georgia Tech A | 71 | -5 |
Robbie Hahn | TAMU | TAG Magnet: Taylor's Version | 71 | -5 |
Jisoo Yoo | Texas A | Texas C | 74 | 15 |
Omer Keskin | Oxford | Warwick | 92 | 10 |
Yashwanth Bajji | Michigan A | Michigan B | 101 | 10 |
Michael Mays | Imperial A | Imperial B | 103 | 10 |
Ben Russell Jones | Edinburgh | Durham | 111 | 10 |
Ivan Stanisavljevic | Duke | James Madison A | 126 | 10 |
Ariel Faeder | MSU A and Friend | Arizona State | 126 | 10 |
Roxanne | Ohio State A | Kenyon A | 130 | 10 |
Chase | Team 2 | Kenyon B | 133 | 10 |
Luke Zhang | Emory A | Georgia Tech B | 141 | 10 |
Ben Biggs | Birmingham | Bristol | 141 | 10 |
Dominik Mystkowski | NC State | South Carolina B | 149 | 10 |
Sam Foo | Cambridge A | Cambridge B | 150 | 10 |
Owen Gilroy | Texas B | HCC | 156 | 10 |
Arunn Sankar | Georgia Tech A | Tennessee A | 158 | 10 |
Anh Khoa Tran | Zen and the Art of Buzzing | Boston College | 158 | 10 |
Ketan Pamurthy | TAG Magnet: Taylor's Version | TAMU | 158 | 10 |