Question
In a story by this author, Professor Weierstrass calls a mathematician a “gift to me alone” and says that he “forgets” she is a woman. Sofia Kovalevskaya’s life inspired a story by this author, who also wrote a story in which three boys about to swim in a river find a dead optometrist in a submerged car. This author of “Too Much Happiness” and “The Love of a Good Woman” wrote a story in which a girl with Down syndrome plays the title Gluck piece beautifully at Mrs. Marsalles’s piano recital. In another story by this author, Nichola is estranged from her mother, Janet, who visits a Toronto planetarium before discussing the title objects with her hospitalized father. For 10 points, name this Canadian author of “Dance of the Happy Shades” and “The Moons of Jupiter.” ■END■
Summary
2024 ACF Regionals @ Nebraska | 01/27/2024 | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 102.67 |
2024 ACF Regionals @ Ohio State | 01/27/2024 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 104.00 |
2024 ACF Regionals @ Imperial | 01/27/2024 | Y | 8 | 88% | 0% | 0% | 102.71 |
2024 ACF Regionals @ Vanderbilt | 01/27/2024 | Y | 1 | 100% | 0% | 100% | 130.00 |
2024 ACF Regionals @ MIT | 01/27/2024 | Y | 5 | 60% | 0% | 0% | 108.33 |
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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Andrei Hui | Cambridge C | Sheffield | 82 | 10 |
Isaac Olson | UW A | UBC A | 83 | 10 |
Ben Russell Jones | Edinburgh | Cambridge A | 84 | 10 |
Adam Jones | Imperial A | Cambridge B | 84 | 10 |
Amogh Kulkarni | Geodesic | Georgia Tech A | 86 | -5 |
Will Orr | Yale B | Harvard B | 87 | 10 |
Roan Dowling | Iowa A | Texas A&M A | 88 | 10 |
Yashwanth Bajji (DII) | Michigan A | Michigan B | 92 | 10 |
Michael Kohn | Durham A | Oxford A | 97 | 10 |
Jason Hong | Brown A | Brandeis A | 107 | 10 |
Dean Ah Now | Claremont A | Appalachian State | 108 | 10 |
Cormac Beirne | Sorbonne | Rice A | 112 | 10 |
Jisoon Yoo | Texas A | Texas A&M B | 112 | 10 |
Aswath Karai | Michigan State A | Iowa B | 113 | 10 |
Ella Warde | Oxford B | Bristol | 115 | 10 |
Jacob Goodson (DII) | Ohio State B | Kenyon | 116 | 10 |
Thomas Hart | Warwick | Imperial B | 121 | 10 |
Quentin Mot | Georgia Tech A | Geodesic | 130 | 10 |
Jeffrey Fung | Harvard A | Tufts B | 131 | 10 |
Nick Pruitt | KCL | Oxford C | 136 | 0 |
Ian Dewan | Kiel | Durham B | 136 | 10 |
Harrison Sugarman | Brandeis B | Dartmouth B | 136 | 0 |
Harrison Sugarman | Brandeis B | Dartmouth B | 136 | 0 |
Jake Markus | Dartmouth B | Brandeis B | 136 | 0 |
Jake Markus | Dartmouth B | Brandeis B | 136 | 0 |