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
| Berkeley A | Berkeley B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Stanford L | Stanford A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Berkeley C | Stanford M | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |