Sri Lanka - 2024 ACF Winter

Question

The title character of a novel attempts to get his lover DD and best friend Jaki to circulate his pictures exposing the brutality of this country’s civil war. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this country. A recently-murdered gay photographer has one week to find his killer in The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida, which is set in this country.

ANSWER: Sri Lanka [or Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka; accept Ceylon]

[10e] In 2022, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida won this prize whose eligibility expanded from Commonwealth novels to all English-language novels in 2014. After 2019, this literary prize dropped “Man” from its name.

ANSWER: Booker Prize [or Booker Prize for Fiction or Man Booker Prize]

[10m] The only other Sri Lankan-born author to win a Booker is this Sri Lankan-Canadian who wrote about Laszlo de Almasy’s recovery at an Italian villa in The English Patient.

ANSWER: Michael Ondaatje [or Philip Michael Ondaatje]

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Summary


2024 ACF Winter at UC Berkeley	2024-11-16	Y	3	26.67	100%	100%	67%
2024 ACF Winter at Clemson	2024-11-16	Y	8	13.75	75%	50%	13%
2024 ACF Winter at Northwestern	2024-11-16	Y	9	17.78	89%	78%	11%
2024 ACF Winter at Ohio State	2024-11-16	Y	7	14.29	100%	29%	14%
2024 ACF Winter at Online	2024-11-16	Y	8	22.50	88%	75%	63%
2024 ACF Winter at UBC	2024-11-16	Y	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Oxford	2024-11-16	Y	11	21.82	100%	64%	55%
2024 ACF Winter at Brandeis	2024-11-16	Y	10	17.00	90%	60%	20%

Data


Alabama A	Georgia A	0	10	10	20
Auburn A	Georgia Tech D	0	10	10	20
Clemson A	Tennesse B	0	0	0	0
UIUC B	Indiana B	0	10	10	20
Purdue B	Miami	0	10	10	20
UIUC C	Northwestern A	0	10	10	20
Indiana A	Notre Dame	0	10	10	20
Berkeley A	Berkeley B	10	10	10	30
Stanford L	Stanford A	0	10	10	20
Berkeley C	Stanford M	10	10	10	30
Texas B	Arkansas	0	10	10	20
Central Oklahoma	Vassar A	10	10	10	30
Texas A	Colorado College	10	10	10	30
Texas D	Iowa	0	0	0	0
McGill E	NYU B	10	10	10	30
Missouri	Mississippi State	0	10	10	20
Oregon State	Ole Miss	10	10	0	20
NYU A	Texas C	10	10	10	30
UW B	Alberta	0	10	0	10
SFU	UBC B	0	10	10	20
UW A	UBC A	0	10	10	20
A Brandeis Supreme	Clark A	0	10	10	20
Boston University A	Amherst A	0	10	0	10
Bowdoin B	Diamond Brandeis	0	0	0	0
Yale C	Brandeises Brew	0	10	0	10
Brown A	MIT A	0	10	10	20
Yale A	Carabrandeis	10	10	10	30
Harvard A	Northeastern A	0	10	10	20
Tufts B	Tufts A	0	10	10	20
Bowdoin A	Williams A	0	10	0	10
Yale B	Boston University B	10	10	10	30
Emory A	Auburn C	0	10	0	10
Georgia Tech B	Georgia Tech E	10	10	10	30
Auburn B	Georgia Tech F	0	0	0	0
Emory B	South Carolina A	0	10	0	10
Georgia Tech C	Tusculum A	0	10	10	20
Purdue A	WashU B	0	10	10	20
UChicago A	Purdue C	0	10	10	20
WashU D	Purdue D	0	0	0	0
SIUE A	UChicago B	10	10	10	30
WashU C	UIUC D	0	10	0	10
CWRU A (UG)	CWRU C (UG)	0	10	0	10
OSU C	Kenyon A	0	10	0	10
Michigan State A	Michigan A	0	10	0	10
Michigan B	CWRU D (DII)	0	10	10	20
Michigan State C (UG)	Michigan C (UG)	0	10	0	10
CWRU B (UG)	Michigan D (DII)	0	10	0	10
Ohio State A (UG)	Pitt A	10	10	10	30
Imperial A	Cambridge A	0	10	0	10
Cambridge B	Bristol A	0	10	10	20
LSE A	Cambridge C	10	10	10	30
Cam D	Durham A	0	10	0	10
Edinburgh	Bristol B	10	10	10	30
Oxford B	Imperial B	10	10	10	30
Oxford A	Manchester	10	10	10	30
Southampton A	Birmingham	10	10	10	30
Vanderbilt	LSE B	0	10	10	20
Southampton B	Warwick A	0	10	0	10
Warwick B	Durham B	10	10	0	20