Question
In one of this author’s stories, a detective’s over-complication of a murder case results in his entrapment and death by the criminal Red Scharlach. In another story, this author used the phrase “upward behind the onstreaming it mooned” to illustrate the lack of nouns in an imaginary language. This author of Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius (“t’LERN UCK-bar OR-biss TER-shuss”) wrote of characters going insane after looking for prophetic works called “Vindications.” In that story, this author described the Purifiers’ frantic search for a Crimson Hexagon in a library containing all possible 410-page books. For 10 points, The Library of Babel is by what Argentine short-story writer? ■END■
ANSWER: Jorge Luis Borges (The first line is from Death and the Compass.)
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= Average correct buzz position
Summary
2024 ACF Fall at Ohio State | fall | Y | 9 | 100% | 0% | 11% | 74.44 |
2024 ACF Fall at Washington | fall | Y | 7 | 86% | 0% | 14% | 71.67 |
2024 ACF Fall at Georgia | fall | Y | 11 | 100% | 0% | 9% | 78.36 |
2024 ACF Fall at North Carolina | fall | Y | 8 | 88% | 0% | 0% | 68.00 |
2024 ACF Fall at Rutgers | fall | Y | 7 | 100% | 0% | 14% | 71.57 |
2024 ACF Fall at Illinois | fall | Y | 10 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 70.60 |
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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Jeffery Xu | Georgia Tech D | Georgia Tech A | 11 | 10 |
Beckett Gilmore (DII) | Jefferson County Scholars (DII) | Michigan D (UG) | 16 | 10 |
Josh Schmidt | Liberty A | UNC A | 18 | 10 |
Orion Keller | Virginia Tech A | UNC C | 21 | 10 |
Henry Bylinowski | Auburn A | Georgia Tech E | 23 | 10 |
Ben Koberlein | Notre Dame A | Chicago A | 37 | 10 |
Arjun Saulnier (DII) | CWRU B (DII) | Miami B (UG) | 47 | 10 |
Sam Alahi | Illinois A | Illinois D | 47 | 10 |
Carson Kessler | UW Lust | UW Envy | 51 | 10 |
Jacob Puthipiroj | Northwestern A | Iowa A | 51 | 10 |
Kevin Zheng (UG) | Michigan A (UG) | Michigan State A | 52 | 10 |
Andy Yu (DII) | Maryland A (DII) | Columbia J (DII) | 52 | 10 |
Erin Chen | UBC B | UBC A | 53 | 10 |
Davis Johnson | Purdue C | Notre Dame C | 53 | 10 |
James O'Reilly | Arizona State B | Arizona State A | 54 | 10 |
Ethan Rehder | Duke B | Liberty C | 54 | 10 |
John Shelly (DII) | Rowan A (DII) | Bard A (UG) | 54 | 10 |
Alexandra Duan (DII) | Columbia B | Penn B (DII) | 54 | 10 |
Matthew Lam (DII) | Ohio State A (UG) | Michigan C | 66 | 10 |
Zachary Kant | Emory A | Vanderbilt A | 66 | -5 |
Towery McNeil | Mississippi State A | Emory Oxford | 66 | 10 |
Elijah Scheinson (UG) | Columbia A (UG) | Rutgers A (UG) | 69 | 10 |
Henry Nonnemaker (DII) | CWRU A (UG) | Miami A (UG) | 74 | -5 |
Jack Piros | Illinois C | Chicago B | 79 | 10 |
David Mathew | Purdue A | Purdue B | 79 | 10 |
Peter Zeng (DII) | Ohio State B (DII) | Michigan B (UG) | 84 | 10 |
Luke Strole | UW Pride | UW Wrath | 84 | 10 |
Malachi Ledford | Tusculum | Liberty B | 84 | 10 |
Daniel Kim (DII) | Maryland B (DII) | Lehigh A (UG) | 84 | 10 |
Azura Gollamudi | Northwestern B | Indiana | 84 | 10 |
Beck Faletti | UW Gluttony | UW Greed | 86 | 10 |
Griffin Elder | Tennessee A | South Carolina A | 86 | 10 |
Noah McRedmond | Notre Dame B | WashU B | 86 | 10 |
Hayes Brown | Furman | Georgia Tech C | 87 | 10 |
Ishan Joshi (DII) | Rutgers B | Princeton A (UG) | 87 | -5 |
Vinayak Singh Bhadoriya | NYU B | Lehigh B (DII) | 87 | 10 |
Monish Jampala | Georgia Tech B | South Carolina B | 88 | 10 |
Waverly O'Malley | Iowa B | SIUE | 88 | 10 |
Dylan Missal | Alabama A | Georgia A | 95 | 10 |
Bailey Steed (DII) | Miami C (DII) | West Virginia B (UG) | 99 | 10 |
Liam Markland | Alberta | UW Chastity | 99 | -5 |
Meredie Cohen | William & Mary | NC State | 99 | 10 |
Alina Moore | Tennessee B | Southern | 100 | 10 |
Carly Hemani | James Madison A | Appalachian State B | 100 | 10 |
Simon Burstein | Virginia | UNC D | 100 | 10 |
Sidhant Chaliha (DII) | Princeton A (UG) | Rutgers B | 101 | 10 |
Lucas Gagen (DII) | Miami A (UG) | CWRU A (UG) | 102 | 10 |
Daniel Luebs (DII) | Michigan State B | CWRU C (UG) | 102 | 10 |
Kate Merritt (UG) | West Virginia A (UG) | Ohio State C (DII) | 102 | 10 |
Euan McCubbin | UW Chastity | Alberta | 102 | 10 |
Stella Brown | UW Sloth | Boise State | 102 | 0 |
Blake Enwiller | Vanderbilt A | Emory A | 102 | 10 |
Colin Vess | Vanderbilt B | Clemson A | 102 | 10 |
Gannon Rice | Clemson A | Vanderbilt B | 102 | 0 |
Coy Mier | Auburn C | Belmont | 102 | 10 |
Ben Kantsiper | James Madison B | Duke A | 102 | 0 |
Andrea Owusu | Duke A | James Madison B | 102 | 0 |
Conner Yamnitz | WashU A | Illinois B | 102 | 10 |