Question
In a play by this author, the experience of seeing a unicorn is “thinned” into seeing a horse with an arrow stuck in its head. In a play by this author, Bernard Nightingale owns a tortoise whose name changes from Lightning to Plautus. In that play by this author, the “hermit of Sidley Park,” Septimus Hodge, tutors Thomasina Coverly. In another play, this author depicted the Player and the Tragedians hiding in barrels after performing The Murder of Gonzago. A flipped coin lands on heads 92 times in a play by this author about two minor characters from Hamlet. For 10 points, name this British playwright of Arcadia and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. ■END■
ANSWER: Tom Stoppard [or Tomas Straussler]
<British Literature>
= Average correct buzz position
Summary
2024 ACF Fall at Cornell | fall | Y | 9 | 56% | 0% | 22% | 88.40 |
2024 ACF Fall at Ohio State | fall | Y | 7 | 86% | 0% | 29% | 82.33 |
2024 ACF Fall at Washington | fall | Y | 6 | 67% | 0% | 50% | 92.50 |
2024 ACF Fall at Georgia | fall | Y | 9 | 89% | 0% | 11% | 78.50 |
2024 ACF Fall at North Carolina | fall | Y | 9 | 78% | 0% | 22% | 76.86 |
2024 ACF Fall at Claremont Colleges | fall | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 20% | 75.40 |
2024 ACF Fall at Rutgers | fall | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 74.13 |
2024 ACF Fall at Rutgers | fall | Y | 7 | 86% | 0% | 14% | 75.33 |
2024 ACF Fall at Illinois | fall | Y | 9 | 89% | 0% | 56% | 91.38 |
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
---|---|---|---|---|
Karthik Krishnamurthy (DII) | USC | UCSD | 32 | 10 |
William Foster | Chicago A | Notre Dame B | 39 | -5 |
Vedh Ramesh (DII) | Penn A (DII) | Fordham A | 40 | 10 |
Jason Lee (DII) | Rutgers A (UG) | Penn B (DII) | 53 | 10 |
Sarah Patel | Vanderbilt A | Tennessee A | 54 | 10 |
Jeffery Xu | Georgia Tech D | Auburn B | 55 | 10 |
Rachel Fanous (DII) | Michigan A (UG) | Ohio State A (UG) | 56 | 10 |
Beckett Gilmore (DII) | Jefferson County Scholars (DII) | Michigan State B | 57 | 10 |
Cameron Wiliams | Appalachian State A | UNC A | 57 | 10 |
Rahul Jogadhenu (DII) | UCLA C | UCLA A | 57 | -5 |
Sam Hicks-Jirkans (DII) | Ohio State B (DII) | Miami C (DII) | 58 | -5 |
Henry Bylinowski | Auburn A | Georgia Tech C | 58 | 10 |
Ilyas Choukri | Virginia Tech A | Appalachian State B | 58 | 10 |
Derek Chen (UG) | Columbia A (UG) | Penn A (DII) | 58 | 10 |
Nolan Keating (DII) | Lehigh B (DII) | Maryland B (DII) | 58 | 10 |
Stephen Heritage | Notre Dame A | Purdue B | 58 | -5 |
Anila Moparthi | Illinois B | Chicago B | 61 | 10 |
Dylan Bianchi | UW Greed | UW Pride | 64 | -5 |
Alec West | Syracuse | Cornell D | 66 | 10 |
Andrew Yang | Columbia B | Rutgers A (UG) | 66 | 10 |
Josh Schmidt | Liberty A | Virginia | 69 | 10 |
Andrew Nucci (DII) | UCLA E | Claremont A | 69 | 10 |
Daniel Kim (DII) | Maryland B (DII) | Princeton A (UG) | 69 | 10 |
Ishan Joshi (DII) | Rutgers B | Rowan A (DII) | 72 | 10 |
Sebastian Pujet | WashU A | Illinois C | 72 | 10 |
Derek Aldridge | William & Mary | VCU | 73 | 10 |
Peter Smith | Binghamton A | RIT B | 77 | -5 |
Beck Faletti | UW Gluttony | UW Envy | 78 | 10 |
Varun Venkatagiri | Georgia A | Georgia Tech E | 78 | -5 |
Elizabeth Bowling | Indiana | Iowa B | 78 | -5 |
Jaden Bandy (DII) | Rutgers B | Lehigh B (DII) | 80 | -5 |
Miller Doerr | Liberty B | UNC C | 82 | 10 |
Anna Kuang | Cornell E | Cornell C | 83 | -5 |
Aidan Craner | U of Rochester A | ESF | 83 | 10 |
Lucas Gagen (DII) | Miami A (UG) | Michigan B (UG) | 84 | 10 |
Towery McNeil | Mississippi State A | Clemson A | 84 | 10 |
Ethan Altshul | Emory A | Tennessee B | 84 | 10 |
Tianyu Xu | Georgia Tech A | Auburn C | 84 | 10 |
Daniel Tritasavit (DII) | UCLA D | UCLA B | 84 | 10 |
Jason Qin (DII) | Columbia J (DII) | Fordham A | 84 | 10 |
Olin Bose (DII) | Columbia A (UG) | Columbia B | 84 | 10 |
Theodor Martin | WashU B | Illinois A | 84 | -5 |
Nayel Tekle | Cornell B | Penn State | 86 | 10 |
Ruchir Kodihalli (UG) | CWRU A (UG) | Miami B (UG) | 86 | 10 |
Skand Parvatikar | Arizona State B | Boise State | 86 | 10 |
Jessica Pham | Duke A | Liberty C | 86 | 10 |
Ian Parsons (DII) | Maryland A (DII) | NYU A (UG) | 86 | 10 |
John Shelly (DII) | Rowan A (DII) | Lehigh A (UG) | 86 | 10 |
Noah McRedmond | Notre Dame B | Chicago A | 86 | 10 |
Matthew Wang | UBC B | Arizona State A | 89 | -5 |
Hannah Nieuwveld (DII) | Penn B (DII) | NYU A (UG) | 89 | 10 |
Anthony Yin (DII) | CWRU B (DII) | West Virginia B (UG) | 91 | -5 |
Karl Wang (DII) | UCLA A | UCLA C | 92 | 10 |
Kritanu Saha | Cornell A | Cornell F | 93 | 10 |
Chase Barrick (DII) | Lehigh A (UG) | Bard A (UG) | 93 | 10 |
David Mathew | Purdue A | Purdue C | 93 | 10 |
Carly Hemani | James Madison A | Virginia Tech B | 94 | -5 |
Quinn Whitlow | Illinois D | Northwestern B | 94 | 10 |
Cade Smith (UG) | Michigan State A | West Virginia A (UG) | 98 | 10 |
Sean Jackson | South Carolina A | Belmont | 98 | 10 |
Brielle Rach | Iowa A | SIUE | 98 | -5 |
Aneesh Shrotriya | Purdue B | Notre Dame A | 98 | 10 |
Adam Hermann (DII) | Claremont B | Claremont C | 100 | 10 |
Anne Fjeld | Alberta | UW Wrath | 101 | 10 |
Florian Chiu | UW Sloth | UW Chastity | 105 | -5 |
Simarya Ahuja | UW Pride | UW Greed | 105 | 10 |
Michael Li | Duke B | James Madison B | 107 | -5 |
Lucas Shedlock (UG) | Princeton A (UG) | NYU B | 107 | 10 |
Allen Xu | Georgia Tech E | Georgia A | 111 | 10 |
Bailey Steed (DII) | Miami C (DII) | Ohio State B (DII) | 113 | 10 |
Malachi Ledford | Tusculum | UNC B | 113 | 10 |
Sam Alahi | Illinois A | WashU B | 113 | 10 |
Will Hoover | RIT B | Binghamton A | 114 | 10 |
Claire Chambers | Binghamton B | Cornell G | 114 | 0 |
Claire Wang | RIT C | RIT A | 114 | 0 |
Gianna Pettine | U of Rochester B | Binghamton C | 114 | 0 |
Pranaav Senthilkumar | Cornell C | Cornell E | 114 | 0 |
Elijah O'Sick Johnson | Binghamton C | U of Rochester B | 114 | 0 |
Brian Chen | Cornell G | Binghamton B | 114 | 0 |
Stefan Stealey-Euchner | Arizona State A | UBC B | 114 | 0 |
Andrea Yu | UW Chastity | UW Sloth | 114 | 0 |
Colin Vess | Vanderbilt B | Southern | 114 | 0 |
Akajiugo Amucheazi | Southern | Vanderbilt B | 114 | 0 |
Waverly O'Malley | Iowa B | Indiana | 114 | 10 |
Danielle Webb | SIUE | Iowa A | 114 | 0 |