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
| Cornell C | Cornell D | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| 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 |
| Michigan State B | West Virginia B (UG) | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Ohio State A (UG) | CWRU A (UG) | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Miami C (DII) | Ohio State C (DII) | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Lehigh B (DII) | Bard A (UG) | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| 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 |
| Purdue A | Northwestern B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Purdue B | WashU B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Chicago A | Purdue C | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| 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 |
| Michigan C | CWRU B (DII) | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| CWRU C (UG) | West Virginia A (UG) | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |