Question

The narrator of a novel by this author suggests that his neighbor sponsored a midwife so that townspeople would stop “borrowing” the man’s horse out of spite. (-5[1])This author (15[1])may have intentionally (15[1])left unfinished a novel that concludes as the protagonist “caught hold of a fille de chambre’s...end of Vol. II.” A character created by this author explains freedom by drawing a wiggly line in the air with his walking stick, which (15[1])Balzac reproduced in the epigraph to (15[1])(*) The Wild Ass’s Skin. A novel by this author uses a completely black page to represent the death of a character (10[1]-5[2])who also (-5[1])travels through (-5[1])France and Italy (-5[1])in a satirical (10[1])“sentimental journey” (10[1])by (-5[1])this (10[1])author. The protagonist believes his life to be altered after Dr. Slop’s forceps (10[2])flatten his nose in a novel (10[1])by this author that features his alter ego Parson Yorick. For 10 points, name this author of Tristram Shandy. (10[2])■END■ (10[3]0[4])

ANSWER: Laurence Sterne
<HG, British Literature>
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Aden SunChicago ANotre Dame A26-5
Omer KeskinOxfordImperial A2815
Mattias EhatammWaterlooA Ray of Sun in the Sky3115
Raymond WangCornell RSyracuse+Rochester7115
Anderson WangI will play anything with a buzzer in front of meAuxiliary Lofthouse Cookie University7715
Kevin FlanaganBristolCambridge A98-5
Ben LaFondCambridge BDurham9810
Cade ReinbergerRITCornell MATLAB98-5
Nicholas EdwardsMcDouble West-CarletonOttawa C100-5
Swapnil GargBerkeley ABerkeley C102-5
Yash MandaviaIllinois BChicago B105-5
Ben DahlPurdue APurdue B10810
Andrew ZengStanford ABerkeley B11010
Justin WytmarIllinois AVanderbilt111-5
Ben Russell JonesEdinburghWarwick11210
Neal JoshiWUSTL XYZMissouri A12510
Gabe ForrestSquidward Community CollegeWUSTL H2O12510
Tanuj ChandekarIndianaNotre Dame B13110
Nermeen RahmanChicago BIllinois B15010
Gavin MarkoffVanderbiltIllinois A15010
Kevin YeBerkeley CBerkeley A1510
Sam FooCambridge ABristol15110
Jaime Salamanca CamachoImperial BBirmingham15110
Maya KvaratskheliaNotre Dame AChicago A1510
Nathan ZhangCornell MATLABRIT15110
Dede BinkhoelterMissouri BSIUE1510
Logan MathisSIUEMissouri B1510