Question
In a short story by this author, Delia’s abusive husband Sykes dies from a rattlesnake bite. That short story by this author, “Sweat,” was published in the only edition of the literary magazine Fire!! In a novel by this author, a chorus of vultures chant “bare, bare fat” following the funeral of Mat Bonner’s mule. An unmarked grave believed to belong to this author was inscribed with the epitaph “a genius of the South” in reference to an Alice Walker essay. A character created by this author returns to Eatonville, Florida after shooting her rabid third husband Tea Cake during a hurricane. For 10 points, name this author who wrote about Janie Crawford in Their Eyes Were Watching God. ■END■
ANSWER: Zora Neale Hurston (Fire!! magazine only printed a single issue before its headquarters burned down.)
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Summary
2024 ACF Fall at Cornell | fall | Y | 9 | 89% | 0% | 11% | 95.50 |
2024 ACF Fall at Ohio State | fall | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 25% | 82.88 |
2024 ACF Fall at Washington | fall | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 90.50 |
2024 ACF Fall at Georgia | fall | Y | 10 | 100% | 0% | 20% | 87.30 |
2024 ACF Fall at North Carolina | fall | Y | 9 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 88.33 |
2024 ACF Fall at Claremont Colleges | fall | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 20% | 84.20 |
2024 ACF Fall at Rutgers | fall | Y | 8 | 63% | 0% | 38% | 58.20 |
2024 ACF Fall at Rutgers | fall | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 81.38 |
2024 ACF Fall at Illinois | fall | Y | 9 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 45.00 |
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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Sanika Iyer | Indiana | Iowa B | 10 | 10 |
Jacob Moeller (DII) | Miami A (UG) | Michigan B (UG) | 15 | 10 |
Brielle Rach | Iowa A | SIUE | 15 | 10 |
Saif Virani (UG) | Fordham A | Penn A (DII) | 18 | 10 |
Dylan Bianchi | UW Greed | UW Pride | 21 | 10 |
Greta Hong (DII) | Bard A (UG) | NYU B | 22 | 10 |
Timothy Chiu | Northwestern B | Illinois D | 24 | 10 |
Steven McPhillimey (UG) | Lehigh A (UG) | Bard A (UG) | 27 | -5 |
David Mathew | Purdue A | Purdue C | 27 | 10 |
Benny Feldman | Chicago A | Notre Dame B | 33 | 10 |
Vinayak Singh Bhadoriya | NYU B | Princeton A (UG) | 36 | 10 |
Alex Lin (DII) | Rutgers B | Rowan A (DII) | 36 | -5 |
Olin Bose (DII) | Columbia A (UG) | Columbia B | 37 | 10 |
Henry Bylinowski | Auburn A | Georgia Tech C | 47 | 10 |
Vivian Fan (DII) | Claremont A | UCLA E | 54 | -5 |
Sam Alahi | Illinois A | WashU B | 54 | 10 |
Ivan Karp (UG) | UCLA B | UCLA D | 56 | 10 |
Mary Wells | VCU | William & Mary | 57 | 10 |
Sophia Madrazo | Purdue B | Notre Dame A | 58 | 10 |
Daniel Kim (DII) | Maryland B (DII) | Princeton A (UG) | 61 | 10 |
Cameron Wiliams | Appalachian State A | UNC A | 63 | 10 |
Euan McCubbin | UW Chastity | UW Sloth | 68 | 10 |
Henry Nonnemaker (DII) | CWRU A (UG) | Miami B (UG) | 73 | -5 |
Allen Xu | Georgia Tech E | Georgia A | 73 | 10 |
Nolan Keating (DII) | Lehigh B (DII) | Maryland B (DII) | 74 | -5 |
Rachel Fanous (DII) | Michigan A (UG) | Ohio State A (UG) | 75 | 10 |
Sarah Patel | Vanderbilt A | Tennessee A | 75 | -5 |
Alex Chen (DII) | Claremont C | Claremont B | 78 | 10 |
Anna Kuang | Cornell E | Cornell C | 80 | 10 |
Sam Hicks-Jirkans (DII) | Ohio State B (DII) | Miami C (DII) | 80 | 10 |
Venkat Das (DII) | West Virginia A (UG) | Michigan State A | 80 | -5 |
Meredith Wiper (DII) | CWRU B (DII) | West Virginia B (UG) | 80 | 10 |
Ethan Altshul | Emory A | Tennessee B | 80 | 10 |
Orion Keller | Virginia Tech A | Appalachian State B | 80 | 10 |
Nikola Wu (DII) | UCLA A | UCLA C | 80 | 10 |
Parker McCoig | Tennessee A | Vanderbilt A | 81 | 10 |
Malachi Ledford | Tusculum | UNC B | 82 | 10 |
Jaden Bandy (DII) | Rutgers B | Lehigh B (DII) | 83 | 10 |
Albert Zeng (DII) | Penn B (DII) | Rutgers A (UG) | 88 | 10 |
Brandon Hunt | Auburn C | Georgia Tech A | 89 | 10 |
Xander DiGiovanni (DII) | USC | UCSD | 89 | 10 |
Hannah Nieuwveld (DII) | Penn B (DII) | NYU A (UG) | 89 | 10 |
Carlos Gonzalez | Syracuse | Cornell D | 90 | 10 |
Nidhi Kundargi (DII) | Michigan State B | Jefferson County Scholars (DII) | 90 | 10 |
Daniel Chen | Emory Oxford | Clemson B | 90 | 10 |
Towery McNeil | Mississippi State A | Clemson A | 90 | 10 |
Olin Bose (DII) | Columbia A (UG) | Penn A (DII) | 90 | 10 |
Owen Linder | Binghamton A | RIT B | 92 | 10 |
Joanna Xiao | Georgia Tech D | Auburn B | 92 | 10 |
Ethan Ma | Illinois B | Chicago B | 92 | 10 |
Jack Piros | Illinois C | WashU A | 92 | 10 |
Josh Schmidt | Liberty A | Virginia | 93 | 10 |
Brian Hoff | Cornell B | Penn State | 94 | 10 |
Gianna Pettine | U of Rochester B | Binghamton C | 94 | 10 |
Cara Monroe (DII) | Miami B (UG) | CWRU A (UG) | 94 | 10 |
Justin Hetrick | Belmont | South Carolina A | 96 | -5 |
Alex Wong (DII) | Rutgers A (UG) | Columbia B | 96 | 10 |
Danny Cutbill | RIT A | RIT C | 97 | -5 |
Andrea Owusu | Duke A | Liberty C | 98 | 10 |
Aidan Craner | U of Rochester A | ESF | 101 | 10 |
Ben Kantsiper | James Madison B | Duke B | 101 | 10 |
Jason Qin (DII) | Columbia J (DII) | Fordham A | 101 | 10 |
Soren Heydari | UNC C | Liberty B | 102 | 10 |
Beck Faletti | UW Gluttony | UW Envy | 104 | 10 |
Bianca Van Zile | Binghamton B | Cornell G | 106 | 10 |
Kritanu Saha | Cornell A | Cornell F | 107 | 10 |
Juan-Diego Cisneros (DII) | Lehigh A (UG) | Rowan A (DII) | 109 | 10 |
Anton Akroush (DII) | Michigan State A | West Virginia A (UG) | 110 | 10 |
Andy Yu (DII) | Maryland A (DII) | NYU A (UG) | 112 | 10 |
Rohit Chintala (DII) | Maryland B (DII) | Lehigh B (DII) | 112 | 0 |
Ezra Greenhill (DII) | Bard A (UG) | Lehigh A (UG) | 113 | 0 |
Jack Li | UW Wrath | Alberta | 114 | 10 |
Akajiugo Amucheazi | Southern | Vanderbilt B | 114 | 10 |
Stefan Stealey-Euchner | Arizona State A | UBC B | 117 | 10 |
Sean Jackson | South Carolina A | Belmont | 117 | 10 |
Ethan Tran (DII) | UCLA E | Claremont A | 118 | 10 |
Jude Mejia-Vazquez | RIT C | RIT A | 119 | 0 |
Varun Ambalavanan (DII) | CWRU C (UG) | Ohio State C (DII) | 119 | 10 |
Allison Howard | Boise State | Arizona State B | 119 | 10 |
Carly Hemani | James Madison A | Virginia Tech B | 119 | 10 |