Question
In a short story by this author, a character invents the word “ziuthre” to describe a paper talisman he crafted to ward off hallucinations. The narrator of another of this author’s short stories urinates on a pile of coal dust that trickled down from a crack in the ceiling. The narrator of a novel by this author of “The Room” insists that he and his surroundings are “superfluous” after being left at a loss for words by a (*) chestnut tree. This author wrote a story in which a man is discovered in a gravedigger’s shack, having had his location accidentally ratted out by political prisoner Pablo Ibbieta. In a novel by this author, the pedophilic “Self-Taught Man” Ogier P frequents a library visited by Antoine Roquentin. For 10 points, name this author of the short story “The Wall,” who also wrote the novel Nausea. ■END■
Summary
2023 Penn Bowl (Harvard) | 10/21/2023 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 122.00 |
2023 Penn Bowl (Mainsite) | 10/21/2023 | Y | 6 | 100% | 17% | 0% | 93.50 |
2023 Penn Bowl (Norcal) | 10/28/2023 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 109.50 |
2023 Penn Bowl (South Central) | 10/28/2023 | Y | 3 | 67% | 0% | 0% | 108.00 |
2023 Penn Bowl (UK) | 10/28/2023 | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 111.80 |
2023 Penn Bowl @ Waterloo | 10/28/2023 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 125.67 |
2023 Penn Bowl @ UNC | 10/28/2023 | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 25% | 120.50 |
2023 Penn Bowl @ FSU | 10/28/2023 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 132.50 |
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
---|---|---|---|---|
Moses Kitakule | Columbia A | JHU A | 70 | 15 |
Nathan Sheffield | MIT | Brandeis | 79 | 10 |
Richard Niu | Cornell B | Rutgers | 79 | 10 |
Raymond Wang | Cornell A | RIT | 79 | 10 |
Mitchell Shadden | Texas A | Oklahoma B | 90 | 10 |
Michael Mays | 3HK1MM | Tabearnacle | 93 | 10 |
Anuttam Ramji | Berkeley C | Berkeley A | 94 | 10 |
Ben Russell Jones | Four Neg Omelette | Broken Hearts | 94 | 10 |
Omer Keskin | Betrayed by Rita Izzatdust | Scottish, Irish, Both or Neither | 104 | 10 |
Caleb Kendrick | UMD A | Pitt | 105 | 10 |
Anish Kodali | UNC C | UNC A | 105 | 10 |
Anish Kodali | UNC C | UNC A | 105 | 10 |
Eshan Pant | NYU | Swarthmore | 106 | 10 |
Jim Fan | UNC B | Duke A | 112 | -5 |
Tony Chen | Toronto Weary | La Clique du Château | 117 | 10 |
Yuliang Huang | Florida A | Florida B | 121 | 10 |
Patrick Torre | UMD B | Columbia B | 122 | 10 |
Caleb Ott | Waterloo Miku | Toronto Joy | 125 | 10 |
Allan Lee | Stanford | Berkeley B | 125 | 10 |
Michael Kohn | Foucault's Penndulum | Yes, Moderator | 125 | 10 |
Oliver Wu | Oklahoma A | Texas B | 126 | 10 |
Khushi Umarwadia | USC A | USC B | 128 | 10 |
Erik Christensen | Library of Babel School of Continuing Studies | Toronto Rofl | 135 | 10 |
Jeffrey Fung | Harvard | Tufts | 143 | 10 |
Ben Beardsley | Old London Town | 10 Negs that Shook the Quiz | 143 | 10 |
Sean Farrell | North Florida | FSU A | 144 | 10 |
Jason Hong | Brown | Boston College | 144 | 10 |
Charles Wells | Rice | Texas C | 144 | 0 |
Aditya Sharma | Duke A | UNC B | 144 | 10 |