9/11 - 2024 ACF Fall - Buzzpoints App

Question

Keith Neudecker cheats on his wife with Florence and becomes a poker player after this event in a novel titled for a famous photograph. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this event during which Oskar Schell’s father dies in the Jonathan Safran Foer novel Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close.

ANSWER: 9/11 [accept anything about the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center or the Twin Towers on September 11, 2001]

[10m] This author wrote about 9/11 in the novel Falling Man. This author also wrote about Jack Gladney, who teaches Hitler studies before the Airborne Toxic Event, in the novel White Noise.

ANSWER: Don DeLillo [or Donald Richard DeLillo]

[10e] In White Noise, Jack’s wife Babette takes the drug Dylar because she fears this concept. An Emily Dickinson poem is titled “Because I Could Not Stop for [this concept].”

ANSWER: death [accept fear of death; accept “Because I Could Not Stop for Death”]

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Summary


2024 ACF Fall at Cornell	fall	Y	9	14.44	89%	33%	22%
2024 ACF Fall at Ohio State	fall	Y	8	17.50	100%	38%	38%
2024 ACF Fall at Washington	fall	Y	6	23.33	100%	50%	83%
2024 ACF Fall at Georgia	fall	Y	11	19.09	100%	36%	55%
2024 ACF Fall at North Carolina	fall	Y	9	17.78	100%	44%	33%
2024 ACF Fall at Claremont Colleges	fall	Y	5	16.00	100%	20%	40%
2024 ACF Fall at Rutgers	fall	Y	8	16.25	100%	25%	38%

Data


Binghamton A	RIT C	0	10	10	20
Binghamton B	Cornell E	0	10	10	20
Cornell C	Binghamton C	0	0	10	10
Penn State	Cornell F	10	0	0	10
ESF	Cornell G	0	0	10	10
U of Rochester A	Syracuse	10	10	10	30
RIT B	U of Rochester B	0	0	10	10
Cornell A	Cornell D	0	0	10	10
RIT A	Cornell B	0	0	10	10
Michigan C	CWRU A (UG)	0	0	10	10
CWRU B (DII)	CWRU C (UG)	10	0	10	20
West Virginia A (UG)	Miami C (DII)	0	0	10	10
Michigan B (UG)	Ohio State C (DII)	0	10	10	20
Michigan D (UG)	Michigan A (UG)	10	10	10	30
Michigan State A	Jefferson County Scholars (DII)	10	0	10	20
Ohio State B (DII)	Michigan State B	0	0	10	10
Miami A (UG)	West Virginia B (UG)	0	10	10	20
Alberta	Arizona State B	10	0	10	20
UW Gluttony	Boise State	10	10	10	30
UW Greed	UW Lust	10	10	10	30
UBC B	UW Pride	0	0	10	10
Arizona State A	UW Sloth	10	10	10	30
UW Wrath	UBC A	10	0	10	20
Vanderbilt A	Alabama A	10	0	10	20
Auburn C	Georgia Tech B	0	0	10	10
Emory A	Emory Oxford	0	10	10	20
Georgia Tech A	Furman	10	10	10	30
Georgia Tech C	Belmont	0	0	10	10
Tennessee A	Georgia Tech D	10	10	10	30
Georgia Tech B	Missisippi State	10	0	10	20
Mississippi State A	Georgia Tech E	10	0	10	20
Southern	South Carolina B	0	10	10	20
Clemson B	Tennessee B	10	0	10	20
Auburn B	Vanderbilt B	0	0	10	10
VCU	Appalachian State B	0	0	10	10
UNC B	Duke A	0	10	10	20
James Madison B	UNC D	10	0	10	20
Virginia Tech A	Liberty A	10	10	10	30
Liberty C	Tusculum	0	0	10	10
Virginia Tech B	NC State	0	0	10	10
UNC A	Duke B	0	10	10	20
Appalachian State A	UNC C	0	10	10	20
William & Mary	Virginia	10	0	10	20
UCLA C	Claremont C	10	10	10	30
UCLA A	UCLA E	10	0	10	20
Claremont A	UCLA B	0	0	10	10
UCSD	UCLA D	0	0	10	10
USC	Claremont B	0	0	10	10
Columbia A (UG)	Bard A (UG)	10	0	10	20
Lehigh B (DII)	Columbia J (DII)	0	0	10	10
Fordham A	Maryland B (DII)	10	0	10	20
Penn A (DII)	Lehigh A (UG)	10	10	10	30
Maryland A (DII)	NYU B	0	0	10	10
NYU A (UG)	Rowan A (DII)	0	0	10	10
Penn B (DII)	Princeton A (UG)	0	10	10	20
Columbia B	Rutgers B	0	0	10	10