Question

A play by this author in which a landlady attempts to seduce her poet tenant Luke Clayson was partially based on the painting The Dead Landlord. In a novel by this author of The Ham Funeral, a man’s lover’s husband orders cats to be drowned rather than rehomed, leading to him producing the work Infinity of Cats. In one of this author’s novels, the protagonist’s Greek lover Hero Pavloussi, acquaintance Kathy Volkov, and adoptive sister (*) Rhoda Courtenay provide inspiration for paintings by that protagonist, Hurtle Duffield. (10[1])Dugald destroys (10[1])the final letters from an explorer to Laura Trevelyen (10[1])in a novel by this author about a German man who is killed while attempting to cross the Australian continent. For 10 points, name this Australian author of The Vivisector and Voss. ■END■

ANSWER: Patrick (Victor Martindale) White
= Average correct buzz position

Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Rob CarsonBHSUJeff Weiner Fan Club8510
Chinmay KansaradoubleplusnegfiveWeird Klaus Barbie8710
Sharath NarayanPalestrina SawayamaOur Job is Buzz9610

Summary

2023 UMN COOT08/19/2023Y3100%0%0%89.33