Question

In a story by this author, a man listens to a song on the radio with the lyric “I love you, Baby” while waiting to hear from a boarding school about his son’s appendix surgery. This author wrote about an ex-army engineer who goes to a graveyard with an usherette he meets at the movies, and later learns that she serially kills (10[1])members of the RAF. This author of “Kiss Me Again, Stranger” (10[1])ended a story with a man thinking, (-5[1])“what a bloody silly (10[1])way to die” while holding his slashed throat. (-5[1])That man created by this author has a vision of his wife (10[1])and a pair of elderly twins on a vaporetto before a dwarf (10[1])kills him. (10[5])John and Laura (10[1])go to Venice (10[2])after their daughter’s death in a story by this (10[1])author, (-5[1])who described Nat Hocken smoking his last (10[1])cigarette (-5[2])as the title animals assault his cottage. For 10 points, name this author of “Don’t Look Now” and “The Birds.” (10[2])■END■ (10[6]0[1])

ANSWER: Daphne du Maurier [or Dame Daphne du Maurier, Lady Browning; prompt on “Lady Browning”]
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Summary

2024 ACF Nationals2024-04-21Y2496%0%21%128.30

Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Andrew HannaPennToronto B6110
Jem BurchYale BWUSTL B7210
Adrian WongOttawaFlorida79-5
Ned TagtmeierChicago APurdue8310
Richard NiuCornell AColumbia A91-5
Henry CafaroChicago BTexas10310
Karsten RynearsonYale AMaryland11510
Eric GunterNorth Carolina BMcGill11710
Wenying WuToronto AJohns Hopkins11710
Joseph ChambersVirginiaRutgers11710
Nicholas TunksMinnesota BSouth Carolina11710
Kevin ParkClaremont CollegesColumbia B11710
Justin HawkinsIndianaWUSTL A12010
Jeffrey FungHarvardBerkeley B12310
Mattias EhatammWaterlooStanford12310
Rosa XiaCornell BTruman State13210
Jim FanNorth Carolina AMinnesota A133-5
Michael HundingIllinoisBerkeley A14010
Tegan KapadiaGeorgia TechNYU141-5
Yashwanth BajjiMichiganNorthwestern141-5
Liam StarnesChicago CKentucky16110
Bryan UgazArizona StateDuke16110
Conor ThompsonIowa StateBrown16210
Gavin MarkoffVanderbiltChicago D1620
Moses KitakuleColumbia ACornell A16210
Jacob Hardin-BernhardtNYUGeorgia Tech16210
Andrew SalijNorthwesternMichigan16210
Joel MilesMinnesota ANorth Carolina A16210
Hayden PratherFloridaOttawa16210