Question

Photographs and letters are interspersed in a nonfiction work by this author that follows his great aunt Hennerle Gerda Caro, with whom the protagonist lives while attending Tonbridge School. In a novel by this author, whose table of contents uses rhyming couplets (15[1])to summarize (15[3])its nineteen parts, (15[1])a character writes a wedding proposal through the acrostic “A Modest Proposal.” (15[2])This author of (15[1])Two Lives included the claim “The Dow-Jones of my heart’s depressed” in a novel whose protagonist (15[1])meets (*) Liz Dorati. The programmer (10[1])John Brown is the protagonist of a novel by this author composed of 590 (10[1])Onegin stanzas. (10[3])Kabir (10[3])plays (10[1])Malvolio (10[1])in a rendition of Twelfth Night in a novel by this author (10[1])in which Rupa Mehra tries to find a husband (10[1])for (10[1])Lata. (10[2])For 10 points, name this Indian author (10[1])of (-5[1])The Golden Gate and (10[1])A Suitable Boy. ■END■ (10[2])

ANSWER: Vikram Seth
<Noah Sheidlower, World Literature>
= Average correct buzz position

Summary

2023 Penn Bowl (Harvard)10/21/2023Y3100%0%0%124.00
2023 Penn Bowl (Mainsite)10/21/2023Y6100%50%0%77.67
2023 Penn Bowl (Norcal)10/28/2023Y2100%50%0%78.00
2023 Penn Bowl (South Central)10/28/2023Y367%33%33%93.00
2023 Penn Bowl (UK)10/28/2023Y5100%60%0%71.60
2023 Penn Bowl @ Waterloo10/28/2023Y4100%0%0%114.00
2023 Penn Bowl @ UNC10/28/2023Y4100%0%0%110.75
2023 Penn Bowl @ FSU10/28/2023Y2100%50%0%78.00

Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Aum MundheRutgersCornell B4115
Biniam AlaroFlorida AFlorida B4315
Ben Russell JonesFour Neg OmeletteBroken Hearts4315
Omer KeskinBetrayed by Rita IzzatdustScottish, Irish, Both or Neither4315
Jisoo YooTexas AOklahoma B4615
Eshan PantNYUSwarthmore5815
Shahar SchwartzBerkeley ABerkeley C5815
Raymond WangCornell ARIT6115
Michael Mays3HK1MMTabearnacle7715
Moses KitakuleColumbia AJHU A8210
Michael KohnFoucault's PenndulumYes, Moderator9610
Tony ChenToronto WearyLa Clique du Château9810
Henry AtkinsLibrary of Babel School of Continuing StudiesToronto Rofl9810
Allan LeeStanfordBerkeley B9810
Paul SteeplesOld London Town10 Negs that Shook the Quiz9910
Vincent DuUNC AUNC C9910
Vincent DuUNC AUNC C9910
Connor MayersUMD APitt10010
Jeffrey FungHarvardTufts10110
Sean FarrellNorth FloridaFSU A11310
Khushi UmarwadiaUSC AUSC B12210
Jim FanUNC BDuke A12310
Ben WismathToronto JoyWaterloo Miku12410
William GrogerColumbia BUMD B12410
Nathan SheffieldMITBrandeis13110
Owen GilroyTexas CRice132-5
Jared HeWaterloo HatsuneMixed-Affiliated Contingency, Off the Team & Absent: Wong, Adrian13610
Jason HongBrownBoston College14010
Oliver WuOklahoma ATexas B14010