Question
In this novel’s final chapter, a group of men is led past a “little round hole in the red-earth wall” by a man who repeatedly asks “perhaps your men can help us.” This novel’s protagonist realizes that people “would not go to war” after he attacks a man who came to stop a town meeting. This novel ends with a character pondering whether a man might be subject of “perhaps not a whole chapter but a reasonable (*) paragraph” in “The Pacification of the Primitive Tribes,” a book being written by the District Commissioner. A character in this novel who spends seven years in exile for killing Ezeudu’s (“eh-zay-OO-doo’s”) son eventually hangs himself in the town of Umuofia (“oo-moo-OH-fee-uh”). For 10 points, the suicide of Okonkwo (“oh-KONK-woh”) concludes what novel by Chinua Achebe ■END■
Summary
2023 PACE NSC | 06/10/2023 | Y | 35 | 97% | 26% | 0% | 94.29 |
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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Sam McNamee | Maggie Walker A | Solon | 54 | 20 |
Brielle Rach | Rockford Auburn B | Norman | 54 | 20 |
Johnathon Franke Gordon | Stevenson B | Hunter B | 60 | 20 |
Aeres Zhou | Detroit Country Day | Woodland | 60 | 20 |
Samuel Li | Thomas Jefferson D | Lincoln-Way East | 68 | 20 |
Elliott Lee | Thomas Jefferson A | Thomas Jefferson B | 73 | 20 |
Arjun Kala | University Lab | Dunbar | 73 | 20 |
Alvin Guo | Winston Churchill A | Troy | 73 | 20 |
Nathan Wu | Plymouth | Rockford Auburn A | 76 | 20 |
Omkar Marathe | William Fremd | Belmont | 77 | 10 |
Tanay Bodducherla | Mira Loma | Richard Montgomery | 77 | 10 |
Michael Zheng | Irvington A | Innovation Academy A | 78 | 10 |
Braden Booth | Dallas County | Barrington A | 80 | 10 |
Dominic Apap | Detroit Catholic Central B | Norris | 83 | 10 |
Monit Karmaker | Stevenson A | Heights | 84 | 0 |
Camden Williams | Mexico | Hinsdale Central | 84 | 0 |
Aditya Shivaswamy | St. Mark's | Hunter A | 84 | 10 |
Clete Reinberger | Cincinnati Hills Christian | Waukee | 84 | 10 |
Joy An | Choate Rosemary Hall | Winnebago | 87 | 0 |
Ali Hamzeh | Kinkaid | Johns Creek A | 88 | 0 |
Ryan Dai | Carbondale | New Brighton | 90 | 10 |
Miley Henton | Hoover B | Lake Highland | 92 | 10 |
Ave Rieger | Northmont A | Midtown | 92 | 10 |
Riona Duncan | Walter Payton | Maggie Walker C | 92 | 0 |
Nick Murray | Detroit Catholic Central A | Canyon Crest | 97 | 0 |
Kaushik Gollamudi | Barrington B | Chattahoochee A | 103 | 0 |
Rohan Dalal | Johns Creek B | Thomas Jefferson C | 103 | 10 |
Colette Kendrick | Winston Churchill B | Chattahoochee B | 107 | 10 |
Matt Mokrzycki | Carl Sandburg | Parkway West | 107 | 10 |
Brenden Stremler | Maggie Walker C | Walter Payton | 108 | 10 |
David Bertolasi | Belvidere | Moberly | 110 | 10 |
Brodie Henry | West Point | John Adams A | 115 | 10 |
Varun Venkatagiri | Innovation Academy B | Saint Joseph | 115 | 10 |
Uma Mukhopadhyay | Chattahoochee A | Barrington B | 122 | 10 |
Owen Gibbs | Heights | Stevenson A | 122 | 10 |
C. Schenkel | Washington | Mercer County | 126 | 10 |
Sam Asplund | Winnebago | Choate Rosemary Hall | 128 | 10 |
Abigail AuYeung | Hinsdale Central | Mexico | 128 | 10 |
Russell Dillak | Northmont B | Elkhorn North | 128 | 0 |
Yaj Jhajhria | Canyon Crest | Detroit Catholic Central A | 129 | 10 |
Stella Broome | Maggie Walker B | John Adams B | 129 | 10 |
Michelle Luo | Johns Creek A | Kinkaid | 129 | 10 |