W. Somerset Maugham - 2023 ARCADIA

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 (-5[1])2023 (-5[1])novel The House of Doors. A line from Christopher Isherwood's translation of the Katha Upanishad titles a novel by this author about a WWI (15[1])pilot’s search for enlightenment in India. The missionary Davidson fails to moralize a prostitute in Pago Pago named (15[1])(*) Sadie Thompson in one of many stories this author set on the South Sea, (15[1])“Rain.” This author (10[1])created a stockbroker who abandons his family to become an (10[1])artist in Tahiti in a novel retelling the life of (-5[1])Paul Gauguin. For 10 points, name (10[1])this British novelist of The (10[1])Moon and (10[1])Sixpence, (10[3])who wrote (10[1])about (10[1])the club-footed orphan Philip (10[2])Carey in Of Human Bondage. ■END■

ANSWER: W. Somerset Maugham [or William Somerset Maugham] (Proudlock is the subject of Maugham’s story “The Letter.” The novel is The Razor’s Edge.)

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2023 ARCADIA at Emory	Emory, Duke, Yale	N	4	50%	0%	50%	85.00
2023 ARCADIA at Duke	Emory, Duke, Yale	N	2	100%	0%	0%	123.00
2023 ARCADIA at Imperial	Imperial	Y	5	100%	20%	40%	104.60
2023 ARCADIA at Maryland	Maryland, Online	N	4	75%	0%	0%	121.00
2023 ARCADIA Online	Maryland, Online	N	2	100%	0%	0%	112.00
2023 ARCADIA at Ohio State	Ohio State, Texas	N	3	67%	0%	33%	111.50
2023 ARCADIA at Texas	Ohio State, Texas	N	3	67%	0%	33%	118.00
2023 ARCADIA at WUSTL	Premiere	Y	3	100%	0%	0%	110.67
2023 ARCADIA at Carleton University	Premiere	Y	3	67%	0%	0%	117.00
2023 ARCADIA at Claremont Colleges	Premiere	Y	1	100%	0%	0%	123.00
2023 ARCADIA at Indiana	Premiere	Y	5	100%	20%	0%	123.20
2023 ARCADIA at RIT	Premiere	Y	2	100%	50%	0%	109.50
2023 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley	Premiere	Y	2	100%	0%	50%	132.00

Buzzes

Player	Team	Opponent	Buzz Position	Value
Ben LaFond	Cambridge B	Edinburgh	27	-5
James Byrne	Bristol	Imperial B	28	-5
Agnijo Banerjee	Cambridge A	Oxford	52	15
Aden Sun	Chicago A	Illinois A	70	15
Nathan Zhang	Cornell MATLAB	Cornell R	84	15
Gabe Forrest	Squidward Community College	SIUE	87	10
Thomas Hart	Warwick	Imperial A	97	10
Andrew Zeng	Stanford A	Berkeley A	107	-5
Raymond Chen	Toronto	McDouble West-Carleton	113	10
Sam Moore	Durham	Birmingham	118	10
Anuttam Ramji	Berkeley B	Berkeley C	120	10
Mattias Ehatamm	Waterloo	Ottawa A	121	10
Eylon Caplan	Purdue A	Vanderbilt	121	10
Neal Joshi	WUSTL XYZ	WUSTL H2O	121	10
Will Alston	SGV Capital	Auxiliary Lofthouse Cookie University	123	10
Braden Booth	Missouri A	Missouri B	124	10
Rahim Dina	Imperial B	Bristol	128	10
Ben Russell Jones	Edinburgh	Cambridge B	128	10
Sanjeev Uppaluri	Syracuse+Rochester	RIT	135	10
Tanuj Chandekar	Indiana	Notre Dame A	140	10
Nermeen Rahman	Chicago B	Purdue B	142	10
Shardul Parthasarathy	Illinois B	Notre Dame B	143	10
Eve Fleisig	Berkeley A	Stanford A	144	10
Ian Theysmeyer	Ottawa C	Ottawa B	144	0