Question
In a novel by this author, a Byzantine woman mysteriously gains the ability to retrieve small objects but fails to use it to kill Mehmet II. The protagonist of a story by this author travels with Big-tooth to the South Pole and sees a god’s creation of a cloud containing all possible poetry. In a novel by this author, a society that later divides into factions called Adventists and Redemptionists is founded by Mike Evans. In that novel by this author, a virtual-reality game that flips between Stable and Chaotic Eras is used to simulate the title phenomenon experienced by Trisolaris. Years after witnessing her father’s death in the Cultural Revolution, Yè Wénjié (“yeh wun-j’yeh”) responds to an interstellar message and sparks an alien invasion in a novel by this author. For 10 points, name this author of The Three-Body Problem. ■END■
Summary
2024 ACF Regionals @ Berkeley | 01/27/2024 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 90.67 |
2024 ACF Regionals @ Cornell | 01/27/2024 | Y | 2 | 50% | 0% | 0% | 90.00 |
2024 ACF Regionals @ JMU | 01/27/2024 | Y | 9 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 111.11 |
2024 ACF Regionals @ Minnesota | 01/27/2024 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 50% | 105.50 |
2024 ACF Regionals @ Ohio State | 01/27/2024 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 124.33 |
2024 ACF Regionals @ Rutgers | 01/27/2024 | Y | 5 | 80% | 0% | 0% | 79.25 |
2024 ACF Regionals @ Imperial | 01/27/2024 | Y | 8 | 63% | 0% | 25% | 97.80 |
2024 ACF Regionals @ Vanderbilt | 01/27/2024 | Y | 5 | 80% | 0% | 20% | 110.75 |
2024 ACF Regionals @ MIT | 01/27/2024 | Y | 3 | 67% | 0% | 0% | 36.50 |
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
---|---|---|---|---|
William Groger (UG) | Columbia B | Columbia C | 23 | 10 |
Carlos Doebeli | Imperial B | Cambridge B | 25 | 10 |
Jeffrey Fung | Harvard A | Yale B | 25 | 10 |
Jason Hong | Brown A | Brandeis B | 48 | 10 |
Duncan Griffiths (UG) | William & Mary A (UG) | Virginia A (UG) | 69 | 10 |
Rishabh Dave | Berkeley A | Berkeley C | 74 | 10 |
Bryanna Shao | Vanderbilt A | Vanderbilt B | 77 | 10 |
Andy Yu (DII) | Maryland A (Grad) | Duke A (UG) | 80 | 10 |
Eshan Pant (DII) | NYU A | Johns Hopkins | 87 | 10 |
Jacky Xu | Cornell B | Cornell A | 90 | 10 |
Eric Gunter (Grad) | UNC A (Grad) | JMU A (UG) | 90 | 10 |
Forrest Weintraub (UG) | Columbia A | Vassar | 90 | 10 |
Parth Jagtap | Edinburgh | Kiel | 90 | -5 |
Shardul Rao | Minnesota B | Arizona State | 92 | -5 |
Michał Gerasimiuk | Stanford A | Stanford B | 97 | 10 |
Teddy Masters (UG) | Kenyon | Ohio State A | 97 | 10 |
Michael Mays | Imperial A | Sheffield | 97 | 10 |
Michael Zhou | Georgia Tech B | MTSU | 100 | 10 |
Anuttam Ramji | Berkeley B | Stanford C | 101 | 10 |
Bryan Ugaz | Arizona State | Minnesota B | 101 | 10 |
Omer Keskin | Oxford A | Cambridge C | 102 | 10 |
Michael Kohn | Durham A | Bristol | 103 | -5 |
Justin Kenny | Iowa State | Minnesota C | 110 | 10 |
Ivvone Zhou (UG) | UNC B (UG) | Virginia B (UG) | 112 | 10 |
Ian He (UG) | UNC C (UG) | GWU B (Grad) | 113 | 10 |
Caden Haustein | Harding | Tennessee | 116 | -5 |
Andrew Hanna | Penn | Rowan | 117 | 10 |
Perry O'Connor (Grad) | Liberty A (Grad) | JMU B (UG) | 128 | 10 |
Haike Liu | KCL | Oxford B | 128 | 10 |
Robert Freeman | South Carolina | Alabama | 128 | 10 |
Jacob Martin (UG) | Maryland B (UG) | Liberty B (DII) | 132 | 10 |
Andrew Amygdalos (UG) | GWU A (UG) | Liberty C (DII) | 137 | 10 |
Harrison Whitaker | Cambridge A | Durham B | 137 | 10 |
Biyang Zhang (DII) | Michigan B | Cedarville | 138 | 10 |
Kevin Zheng (DII) | Michigan C | Ohio State B | 138 | 10 |
Arunn Sankar | Georgia Tech A | Kentucky | 138 | 10 |
Cade Reinberger | RIT B | Binghamton | 139 | 0 |
Bianca Van Zile | Binghamton | RIT B | 139 | 0 |
Luke Schaarschuch (UG) | Virginia C (UG) | Roanoke College A (DII) | 139 | 10 |
Jerry Vinokurov | John Jay | Haverford | 139 | 0 |
Thomas Hart | Warwick | Oxford C | 139 | 0 |
Elijah Scheinson | Oxford C | Warwick | 139 | 0 |
Towery McNeil | Boston University | Dartmouth B | 139 | 0 |