Question
During the height of a controversy, this person made a surprise appearance on U2’s Zooropa tour. Events surrounding this person led to the title cold case of Norwegian journalist Odd Isungset’s 2010 book Who Shot William Nygaard? Joseph Conrad and Anton Chekhov inspired this person’s alias Joseph Anton. Hitoshi Igarashi was found murdered at Japan’s Tsukuba University just a few days after another (*) translator of this person, Ettore Capriolo, was killed in Italy. While giving a speech at New York’s Chautauqua (“shuh-TAWK-wah”) Institute in August 2022, this person was stabbed by Hadi Matar. In 1989, Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa against, for 10 points, what author of The Satanic Verses? ■END■
ANSWER: Salman Rushdie [accept the Rushdie Affair; or L’affaire Rushdie]
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Summary
| 2023 PACE NSC | 06/10/2023 | Y | 35 | 100% | 54% | 0% | 66.00 |
Buzzes
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aditya Shivaswamy | St. Mark's | Detroit Catholic Central A | 45 | 20 |
| Sam Asplund | Winnebago | Saint Joseph | 45 | 20 |
| Colette Kendrick | Winston Churchill B | Dunbar | 45 | 20 |
| Kaiwen Xiao | Irvington A | Barrington B | 46 | 20 |
| Braden Booth | Dallas County | Winston Churchill A | 46 | 20 |
| Charles Young | Barrington A | Chattahoochee A | 47 | 20 |
| Rachel Ezrielev | Richard Montgomery | William Fremd | 47 | 20 |
| Evan Lin | Woodland | Detroit Catholic Central B | 47 | 20 |
| Aarushi Kanigicherla | Thomas Jefferson C | Hinsdale Central | 47 | 20 |
| Elliott Lee | Thomas Jefferson A | Mexico | 47 | 20 |
| Chris Yoo | Thomas Jefferson B | Hunter A | 47 | 20 |
| Ali Hamzeh | Kinkaid | Solon | 47 | 20 |
| Yaj Jhajhria | Canyon Crest | Carl Sandburg | 47 | 20 |
| Arjun Kala | University Lab | Mira Loma | 47 | 20 |
| Varun Venkatagiri | Innovation Academy B | Waukee | 48 | 20 |
| Armaan Ahmed | Mercer County | Heights | 49 | 20 |
| Sinecio Morales | Rockford Auburn A | Midtown | 49 | 20 |
| Costas Pavlou | Detroit Country Day | Johns Creek A | 52 | 20 |
| Puna Ekka | New Brighton | Johns Creek B | 61 | 20 |
| Monit Karmaker | Stevenson A | Choate Rosemary Hall | 66 | 10 |
| Samuel Li | Thomas Jefferson D | Stevenson B | 72 | 10 |
| Vien Nguyen | Maggie Walker A | Norris | 76 | 10 |
| Nathan Wu | Plymouth | Troy | 79 | 10 |
| Adam Williams | Northmont A | Chattahoochee B | 80 | 10 |
| Ryan Dai | Carbondale | John Adams A | 84 | 10 |
| Stella Broome | Maggie Walker B | Moberly | 85 | 10 |
| Brenden Stremler | Maggie Walker C | Lake Highland | 88 | 10 |
| Owen Arneson | Parkway West | Hoover B | 88 | 10 |
| Noah McRedmond | Cincinnati Hills Christian | West Point | 90 | 10 |
| Caleb Lee | Lincoln-Way East | John Adams B | 90 | 10 |
| C. Schenkel | Washington | Norman | 91 | 0 |
| David Bertolasi | Belvidere | Northmont B | 91 | 0 |
| Luke Snyder | Rockford Auburn B | Elkhorn North | 91 | 10 |
| Moxie Strom | Hunter B | Detroit Catholic Central C | 93 | 10 |
| Krish Chinta | Innovation Academy A | Walter Payton | 102 | 10 |
| Owen Willenborg | Norman | Washington | 108 | 10 |
| Russell Dillak | Northmont B | Belvidere | 109 | 10 |