In one story, this man wrote about an abolitionist who finds a stone idol’s ear and escapes the Marie Celeste. This man’s friend Harry Houdini mocked his belief in the Cottingley Fairies. One story by this author promises to tell the reader about “the giant rat of Sumatra, a story for which the world is not yet prepared,” but never mentions it again. Professor Challenger discovers dinosaurs in South America in a novel by this man, (*) The Lost World. This man’s most famous character realizes that a snake coming through a ventilator is “the Speckled Band.” In the story “The Final Problem,” that character created by this author is killed at the Reichenbach Falls by Professor Moriarty. For 10 points, name this creator of Sherlock Holmes. ■END■
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| Alan Fan | Thomas Jefferson D | Lincoln-Way East | 27 | 0 |
| Kyunghwan Lim | Chattahoochee A | Barrington B | 30 | 20 |
| Aeres Zhou | Detroit Country Day | Woodland | 30 | 20 |
| Chris Yoo | Thomas Jefferson B | Thomas Jefferson A | 33 | 20 |
| Luca Balescu | Mercer County | Washington | 35 | 20 |
| Anthony Zhao | Thomas Jefferson C | Johns Creek B | 36 | 20 |
| Prahalad Rao | Solon | Maggie Walker A | 36 | 20 |
| Ethan Kral | Northmont A | Midtown | 36 | 20 |
| Jacob Hardin-Bernhardt | Hunter A | St. Mark's | 39 | 20 |
| Joy An | Choate Rosemary Hall | Winnebago | 40 | 20 |
| Nathan Wu | Plymouth | Rockford Auburn A | 41 | 20 |
| Kaiwen Xiao | Irvington A | Innovation Academy A | 65 | 0 |
| Brodie Henry | West Point | John Adams A | 65 | 0 |
| Bryce Cruise | Heights | Stevenson A | 66 | 0 |
| Camden Williams | Mexico | Hinsdale Central | 66 | 20 |
| Braden Booth | Dallas County | Barrington A | 66 | 20 |
| Arjun Kala | University Lab | Dunbar | 66 | 20 |
| Dominic Apap | Detroit Catholic Central B | Norris | 69 | 20 |
| Keefer Lin | Chattahoochee B | Winston Churchill B | 74 | 0 |
| Sam Konkel | Johns Creek A | Kinkaid | 75 | 0 |
| Alvin Guo | Winston Churchill A | Troy | 78 | 0 |
| Kevin Adler | Northmont B | Elkhorn North | 78 | 10 |
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| Atharva Upadhye | Waukee | Cincinnati Hills Christian | 95 | 0 |
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| Aryan Pathak | Lake Highland | Hoover B | 101 | 10 |
| Luke Snyder | Rockford Auburn B | Norman | 101 | 10 |
| Ali Hamzeh | Kinkaid | Johns Creek A | 102 | 10 |
| Caleb Lee | Lincoln-Way East | Thomas Jefferson D | 107 | 10 |
| David Bertolasi | Belvidere | Moberly | 116 | 10 |
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| Kevin Yang | Stevenson A | Heights | 116 | 10 |
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| Eden Blakemore | John Adams A | West Point | 126 | 10 |