Question
A work by this author opens with men wagering body parts for a dice game and Dr. Bero torturing his father. This author of Madmen and Specialists featured a play-within-a-play where four women call a camera “the one-eyed box.” A son insults his father by calling him an “eater of leftovers,” and leaves for England to study medicine in a play by this author. The story of the “Not-I” bird is told by one of this author’s characters who later strangles himself upon seeing the corpse of his son. In that play, Simon Pilkings intervenes in the ritual suicide of Elesin Oba. For 10 points, The Lion and the Jewel and Death and the King’s Horseman were written by what Nigerian playwright? ■END■
ANSWER: Wole Soyinka [or Akinwande Oluwole Babatunde Soyinka]
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= Average correct buzz position
Summary
2024 ACF Fall at Cornell | fall | Y | 7 | 43% | 0% | 14% | 85.33 |
2024 ACF Fall at Ohio State | fall | Y | 9 | 56% | 0% | 11% | 92.60 |
2024 ACF Fall at Washington | fall | Y | 7 | 100% | 0% | 14% | 85.00 |
2024 ACF Fall at Georgia | fall | Y | 14 | 86% | 0% | 14% | 103.42 |
2024 ACF Fall at North Carolina | fall | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 99.50 |
2024 ACF Fall at Claremont Colleges | fall | Y | 1 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 50.00 |
2024 ACF Fall at Rutgers | fall | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 17% | 92.17 |
2024 ACF Fall at Illinois | fall | Y | 9 | 100% | 0% | 22% | 101.67 |
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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Rachel Fanous (DII) | Michigan A (UG) | Ohio State B (DII) | 30 | -5 |
Tai Belke | UBC A | UW Greed | 38 | 10 |
Jason Qin (DII) | Columbia J (DII) | Penn A (DII) | 44 | -5 |
Nitish Sudhakar | Georgia Tech A | Tennessee A | 50 | -5 |
Henry Bylinowski | Auburn A | Georgia Tech D | 50 | -5 |
Rahul Jogadhenu (DII) | UCLA C | Claremont A | 50 | 10 |
Ilyas Choukri | Virginia Tech A | Duke A | 51 | 10 |
Beckett Gilmore (DII) | Jefferson County Scholars (DII) | Michigan B (UG) | 57 | 10 |
Beck Faletti | UW Gluttony | UW Pride | 57 | 10 |
William Foster | Chicago A | Purdue A | 57 | -5 |
Erin Chen | UBC B | UW Wrath | 60 | 10 |
Pranaav Senthilkumar | Cornell C | Syracuse | 62 | 10 |
Ethan Altshul | Emory A | Mississippi State A | 68 | 10 |
Matthew Lam (DII) | Ohio State A (UG) | Miami B (UG) | 69 | 10 |
Olin Bose (DII) | Columbia A (UG) | NYU A (UG) | 69 | 10 |
Alex Wyrick | Tennessee A | Georgia Tech A | 71 | 10 |
Anna Kuang | Cornell E | RIT B | 72 | 10 |
Josh Schmidt | Liberty A | UNC B | 74 | 10 |
Sam Alahi | Illinois A | Notre Dame C | 74 | 10 |
Sanika Iyer | Indiana | Northwestern A | 76 | 10 |
Braeden Laroche | South Carolina A | Georgia Tech E | 77 | 10 |
Andy Yu (DII) | Maryland A (DII) | Rutgers A (UG) | 77 | 10 |
Ethan Furman (DII) | Penn A (DII) | Columbia J (DII) | 80 | 10 |
Stefan Stealey-Euchner | Arizona State A | Alberta | 81 | -5 |
Haylee Weisner | UW Lust | Boise State | 81 | 10 |
Stephen Heritage | Notre Dame A | Chicago B | 92 | 10 |
Sidhant Chaliha (DII) | Princeton A (UG) | Bard A (UG) | 94 | 10 |
Owen Ashbrook | Iowa B | Illinois B | 97 | 10 |
Brielle Rach | Iowa A | Illinois C | 101 | 10 |
Sophie Lyman | WashU A | Illinois D | 101 | -5 |
Matthew Kelley (DII) | Michigan D (UG) | Michigan State A | 104 | 10 |
Dylan Missal | Alabama A | Georgia Tech C | 109 | 10 |
Dylan Missal | Alabama A | Georgia Tech C | 109 | 10 |
Dylan Missal | Alabama A | Georgia Tech C | 109 | 10 |
Hayes Brown | Furman | Clemson B | 109 | 10 |
Malachi Ledford | Tusculum | William & Mary | 109 | 10 |
Noah McRedmond | Notre Dame B | Purdue C | 109 | 10 |
Lucas Gagen (DII) | Miami A (UG) | Michigan C | 111 | 10 |
Varun Venkatagiri | Georgia A | Auburn B | 111 | 10 |
Rohit Chintala (DII) | Maryland B (DII) | Rowan A (DII) | 111 | 10 |
Blake Enwiller | Vanderbilt A | Georgia Tech B | 112 | 10 |
Alec Riso | Cornell D | Binghamton A | 115 | -5 |
James O'Reilly | Arizona State B | UW Chastity | 115 | 10 |
Robert Merriman | VCU | Liberty C | 119 | 10 |
Ethan Maddox | U of Rochester A | Cornell A | 122 | 0 |
Pierce DeCain | Cornell F | Cornell B | 122 | 0 |
Nayel Tekle | Cornell B | Cornell F | 122 | 0 |
Giuseppe Piccirilli | Binghamton A | Cornell D | 122 | 0 |
Elijah O'Sick Johnson | Binghamton C | RIT A | 122 | 0 |
Tom Scheri | RIT A | Binghamton C | 122 | 0 |
Gianna Pettine | U of Rochester B | Binghamton B | 122 | 10 |
Matthew Stall (DII) | CWRU B (DII) | CWRU A (UG) | 122 | 0 |
Alan Lee (UG) | CWRU A (UG) | CWRU B (DII) | 122 | 0 |
Katia Gercheva (DII) | CWRU C (UG) | Miami C (DII) | 122 | 0 |
Malcolm D’Souza (DII) | Ohio State B (DII) | Michigan A (UG) | 122 | 10 |
Nidhi Kundargi (DII) | Michigan State B | Ohio State C (DII) | 122 | 0 |
Venkat Das (DII) | West Virginia A (UG) | West Virginia B (UG) | 122 | 0 |
Connor Channels (UG) | West Virginia B (UG) | West Virginia A (UG) | 122 | 0 |
Liam Markland | Alberta | Arizona State A | 122 | 10 |
Gavin Morrow | UW Envy | UW Sloth | 122 | 10 |
Jeffery Xu | Georgia Tech D | Auburn A | 122 | 10 |
John Mcqueen | South Carolina B | Emory Oxford | 122 | 10 |
Akajiugo Amucheazi | Southern | Clemson A | 122 | 10 |
Brandon Hunt | Auburn C | Tennessee B | 122 | 0 |
Alina Moore | Tennessee B | Auburn C | 122 | 0 |
Justin Hetrick | Belmont | Vanderbilt B | 122 | 0 |
Max Khurzman | UNC A | NC State | 122 | 10 |
Zachary Bornstein | Virginia Tech B | UNC C | 122 | 10 |
Andrew Yang | Columbia B | Fordham A | 122 | 10 |
Azura Gollamudi | Northwestern B | SIUE | 122 | 10 |
David Mathew | Purdue A | Chicago A | 122 | 10 |
Quinn Whitlow | Illinois D | WashU A | 122 | 10 |