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 WWI 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 | 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% | 0% | 0% | 107.60 |
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 | 67% | 33% | 33% | 80.50 |
2023 ARCADIA at Carleton University | Premiere | Y | 3 | 100% | 33% | 33% | 108.33 |
2023 ARCADIA at Claremont Colleges | Premiere | Y | 1 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 113.00 |
2023 ARCADIA at Indiana | Premiere | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 110.40 |
2023 ARCADIA at RIT | Premiere | Y | 2 | 100% | 50% | 50% | 97.00 |
2023 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley | Premiere | Y | 2 | 100% | 50% | 0% | 83.50 |
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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Mattias Ehatamm | Waterloo | Ottawa A | 58 | 15 |
Gabe Forrest | Squidward Community College | SIUE | 58 | 15 |
Richard Niu | Cornell R | Cornell MATLAB | 60 | 15 |
Eve Fleisig | Berkeley A | Stanford A | 64 | 15 |
Michael Hunding | Illinois A | Chicago A | 72 | 10 |
Cade Reinberger | RIT | Syracuse+Rochester | 85 | -5 |
Braden Booth | Missouri A | Missouri B | 94 | -5 |
Michael Kohn | Durham | Birmingham | 100 | 10 |
Omer Keskin | Oxford | Cambridge A | 100 | 10 |
Enoch Yuen | Imperial A | Warwick | 100 | 10 |
Anuttam Ramji | Berkeley B | Berkeley C | 103 | 10 |
Neal Joshi | WUSTL XYZ | WUSTL H2O | 103 | 10 |
Raymond Chen | Toronto | McDouble West-Carleton | 104 | -5 |
Ben Russell Jones | Edinburgh | Cambridge B | 106 | 10 |
Eylon Caplan | Purdue A | Vanderbilt | 108 | 10 |
Tanuj Chandekar | Indiana | Notre Dame A | 109 | 10 |
Will Alston | SGV Capital | Auxiliary Lofthouse Cookie University | 113 | 10 |
Nermeen Rahman | Chicago B | Purdue B | 130 | 10 |
Kevin Flanagan | Bristol | Imperial B | 132 | 10 |
Ian Chow | McDouble West-Carleton | Toronto | 133 | 10 |
Shardul Parthasarathy | Illinois B | Notre Dame B | 133 | 10 |
Ishan Joshi | Ottawa B | Ottawa C | 134 | 10 |
Sanjeev Uppaluri | Syracuse+Rochester | RIT | 134 | 10 |
Dede Binkhoelter | Missouri B | Missouri A | 134 | 0 |