Question
This real-life author befriends society hostess Lesley Hamlyn, a confidant of Dr. Sun Yat Sen and murderess Ethel Proudlock, during a visit to Penang in Tan Twan Eng’s 2023 novel The House of Doors. A line from Christopher Isherwood’s translation of the Katha Upanishad titles a novel by this author about a World War I pilot’s search for enlightenment in India. The missionary Davidson fails to moralize a prostitute in Pago Pago named (*) Sadie Thompson in one of many stories this author set on the South Sea, “Rain.” This author created a stockbroker who abandons his family to become an artist in Tahiti in a novel retelling the life of Paul Gauguin. For 10 points, name this British novelist of The Moon and Sixpence, who wrote about the club-footed orphan Philip Carey in Of Human Bondage. ■END■
Summary
2023 ARCADIA at Emory | Emory, Duke, Yale | Y | 4 | 50% | 0% | 50% | 85.00 |
2023 ARCADIA at Duke | Emory, Duke, Yale | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 123.00 |
2023 ARCADIA at Imperial | Imperial | N | 5 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 107.60 |
2023 ARCADIA Online | Maryland, Online | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 112.00 |
2023 ARCADIA at Maryland | Maryland, Online | Y | 4 | 75% | 0% | 0% | 121.00 |
2023 ARCADIA at Texas | Ohio State, Texas | Y | 3 | 67% | 0% | 33% | 118.00 |
2023 ARCADIA at Ohio State | Ohio State, Texas | Y | 3 | 67% | 0% | 33% | 111.50 |
2023 ARCADIA at WUSTL | Premiere | N | 3 | 67% | 33% | 33% | 80.50 |
2023 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley | Premiere | N | 2 | 100% | 50% | 0% | 83.50 |
2023 ARCADIA at Carleton University | Premiere | N | 3 | 100% | 33% | 33% | 108.33 |
2023 ARCADIA at Claremont Colleges | Premiere | N | 1 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 113.00 |
2023 ARCADIA at Indiana | Premiere | N | 5 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 110.40 |
2023 ARCADIA at RIT | Premiere | N | 2 | 100% | 50% | 50% | 97.00 |
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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Kion You | Texas C | tag magnet: taylor's version | 38 | -5 |
Arya Karthik | Georgia Tech D | Georgia Tech C | 72 | -5 |
Sanjay Srihari | Georgia Tech B | Georgia Tech A | 81 | 10 |
Shourjo Ganguli | Ohio State A | Kenyon B | 87 | 10 |
Kevin Wang | Georgia Tech C | Georgia Tech D | 89 | 10 |
Yash | Michigan A | Kenyon A | 92 | -5 |
Matt Shinnick | Georgetown | George Washington A | 101 | 10 |
Ariel Faeder | MSU A and Friend | Boston College | 110 | 10 |
Khushi Umarwadia | South Carolina A | Duke | 111 | 10 |
Jisoo Yoo | Texas A | Texas B | 111 | 10 |
Sean Farrell | Farrellmagnetism | Arizona State | 114 | 10 |
Robbie Hahn | TAMU | HCC | 125 | 10 |
Emily Bussa | Maryland B | Maryland A | 126 | 10 |
Aidan Leahy | Georgia A | Tennesse A | 127 | -5 |
Dominik Mystkowski | NC State | South Carolina B | 135 | 10 |
Jason Hawkins | Georgia B | Emory A | 136 | 0 |
William Barnes | Tennesse A | Georgia A | 136 | 0 |
Tarun Koti | Emory A | Georgia B | 136 | 0 |
Sinan Yucel | Georgetown | George Washington B | 136 | 0 |
Sinecio Morales | Johns Hopkins | George Washington A | 136 | 10 |
Aidan | Kenyon A | Michigan A | 136 | 0 |
Kevin Zheng | Michigan B | Ohio State B | 136 | 10 |