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 Duke | Emory, Duke, Yale | N | 3 | 100% | 33% | 0% | 113.67 |
2023 ARCADIA at Emory | Emory, Duke, Yale | N | 3 | 100% | 33% | 33% | 123.33 |
2023 ARCADIA at Imperial | Imperial | N | 5 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 119.40 |
2023 ARCADIA Online | Maryland, Online | N | 3 | 100% | 33% | 0% | 116.67 |
2023 ARCADIA at Texas | Ohio State, Texas | N | 3 | 100% | 33% | 33% | 129.33 |
2023 ARCADIA at Ohio State | Ohio State, Texas | N | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 121.33 |
2023 ARCADIA at RIT | Premiere | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 100% | 158.00 |
2023 ARCADIA at Indiana | Premiere | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 20% | 119.80 |
2023 ARCADIA at Claremont Colleges | Premiere | Y | 1 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 111.00 |
2023 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley | Premiere | Y | 2 | 100% | 50% | 50% | 87.00 |
2023 ARCADIA at Carleton University | Premiere | Y | 3 | 100% | 33% | 0% | 113.33 |
2023 ARCADIA at WUSTL | Premiere | Y | 3 | 100% | 33% | 0% | 122.00 |
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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Raymond Chen | Toronto Ray of Sun in the Sky | Ottawa B | 64 | 15 |
Ryan Sun | Berkeley B | Berkeley A | 69 | -5 |
Tim Morrison | Stanford A | Berkeley C | 71 | 15 |
Gabe Forrest | Squidward Community College | WUSTL XYZ | 71 | 15 |
Nathan Zhang | Cornell MATLAB | Syracuse+Rochester | 72 | -5 |
Davis Johnson | Purdue B | Illinois A | 81 | -5 |
Gavin Markoff | Vanderbilt | Notre Dame A | 96 | 10 |
Michael Hunding | Illinois A | Purdue B | 96 | 10 |
Eve Fleisig | Berkeley A | Berkeley B | 103 | 10 |
Anderson Wang | I will play anything with a buzzer in front of me | SGV Capital | 111 | 10 |
Eylon Caplan | Purdue A | Illinois B | 111 | 10 |
Cade Reinberger | RIT | Cornell R | 111 | -5 |
Mattias Ehatamm | Waterloo | McDouble West-Carleton | 119 | 10 |
Braden Booth | Missouri A | SIUE | 137 | 10 |
Robert Condron | Chicago A | Indiana | 139 | 10 |
Anastacia Healey | Ottawa C | Ottawa A | 157 | 10 |
Narmeen Rahman | Chicago B | Notre Dame B | 157 | 10 |
Sanjeev Uppaluri | Syracuse+Rochester | Cornell MATLAB | 158 | 10 |
Richard Niu | Cornell R | RIT | 158 | 10 |
Cyrus Zhou | WUSTL H2O | Missouri B | 158 | 10 |