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Question

One of these characters belonging to Mr. Sneaze (“sneeze”) falls into a barrel of water at the end of the novel it appears in. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this type of character that Toru is tasked with finding by his wife Kumiko at the start of the section “The Thieving Magpie.”

ANSWER: a cat [or neko; prompt on animals or felines; prompt on pets] (Lead-in is from Natsume Soseki’s I Am a Cat.)

[10m] This Japanese author wrote The Wind-up Bird Chronicle. Nakata can understand the language of cats in this author's Kafka on the Shore.

ANSWER: Haruki Murakami

[10e] The Town of Cats appears in Murakami's 1Q84, whose title is a reference to this British author's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.

ANSWER: George Orwell [or Eric Arthur Blair]

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Summary


2024 ACF Fall at Cornell	fall	Y	1	30.00	100%	100%	100%
2024 ACF Fall at Ohio State	fall	Y	9	20.00	100%	78%	22%
2024 ACF Fall at Washington	fall	Y	7	18.57	100%	71%	14%
2024 ACF Fall at Georgia	fall	Y	12	20.83	100%	83%	25%
2024 ACF Fall at North Carolina	fall	Y	10	18.00	100%	70%	10%
2024 ACF Fall at Rutgers	fall	Y	8	20.00	100%	75%	25%
2024 ACF Fall at Illinois	fall	Y	9	22.22	100%	100%	22%

Data


Michigan C	CWRU B (DII)	0	0	10	10
CWRU C (UG)	West Virginia A (UG)	0	10	10	20
Miami A (UG)	Miami B (UG)	0	10	10	20
Michigan A (UG)	Jefferson County Scholars (DII)	10	10	10	30
Ohio State B (DII)	Michigan D (UG)	0	10	10	20
Michigan State A	Michigan B (UG)	0	10	10	20
Lehigh B (DII)	Bard A (UG)	0	0	10	10
Michigan State B	West Virginia B (UG)	0	10	10	20
Ohio State A (UG)	CWRU A (UG)	0	10	10	20
Miami C (DII)	Ohio State C (DII)	10	0	10	20
Appalachian State A	Tusculum	0	10	10	20
UNC D	Appalachian State B	0	10	10	20
Duke A	Duke B	10	10	10	30
Virginia	James Madison A	0	10	10	20
James Madison B	Liberty C	0	0	10	10
NC State	VCU	0	10	10	20
UNC A	Virginia Tech A	0	0	10	10
Liberty B	UNC B	0	0	10	10
Liberty A	UNC C	0	10	10	20
Virginia Tech B	William & Mary	0	10	10	20
Cornell C	Cornell D	10	10	10	30
Arizona State B	Alberta	0	0	10	10
UW Pride	UBC A	0	10	10	20
UBC B	UW Gluttony	0	10	10	20
Arizona State A	UW Chastity	0	10	10	20
UW Envy	Boise State	10	10	10	30
UW Sloth	UW Lust	0	0	10	10
UW Wrath	UW Greed	0	10	10	20
Georgia Tech A	Auburn A	0	10	10	20
Auburn B	Furman	0	0	10	10
Belmont	Clemson A	0	10	10	20
Alabama A	Clemson B	0	10	10	20
Emory A	South Carolina B	10	10	10	30
Georgia Tech C	Georgia A	0	10	10	20
Emory Oxford	Georgia Tech B	0	10	10	20
Tennessee A	Georgia Tech E	10	10	10	30
Georgia Tech D	South Carolina A	10	10	10	30
Auburn C	Southern	0	0	10	10
Mississippi State A	Vanderbilt A	0	10	10	20
Vanderbilt B	Tennessee B	0	10	10	20
Columbia A (UG)	Maryland A (DII)	0	10	10	20
NYU A (UG)	Fordham A	10	10	10	30
Lehigh A (UG)	NYU B	0	0	10	10
Maryland B (DII)	Rutgers B	0	10	10	20
Penn B (DII)	Columbia J (DII)	0	10	10	20
Rowan A (DII)	Princeton A (UG)	0	10	10	20
Penn A (DII)	Rutgers A (UG)	10	10	10	30
Chicago B	Indiana	0	10	10	20
Illinois A	Illinois B	10	10	10	30
Illinois C	SIUE	0	10	10	20
Iowa A	Notre Dame B	0	10	10	20
Notre Dame A	Iowa B	0	10	10	20
Northwestern A	Notre Dame C	0	10	10	20
Purdue A	Northwestern B	10	10	10	30
Purdue B	WashU B	0	10	10	20
Chicago A	Purdue C	0	10	10	20