The Line of Beauty - 2024 ACF Winter

Question

In this novel, whose sections include one titled “To Whom Do You Beautifully Belong?,” the protagonist says of an author that “we wouldn’t have realized… that he’d seen right through us.” For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this novel in which the protagonist has an affair with the Lebanese millionaire Wani. This novel by Alan Hollinghurst follows the gay man Nick Guest in 1980s Britain.

ANSWER: The Line of Beauty

[10e] “To Whom Do You Beautifully Belong?” is a quote by this author, whom Nick is writing his thesis on. Nick is working on a screenplay of The Spoils of Poynton, a novel by this author of The Turn of the Screw.

ANSWER: Henry James

[10m] The Line of Beauty references a scene in which this character is surprised to see her husband seated while Madame Merle is standing. This Henry James character is the protagonist of The Portrait of a Lady.

ANSWER: Isabel Archer [or Isabel Archer]

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Summary


2024 ACF Winter at UC Berkeley	2024-11-16	Y	3	20.00	100%	33%	67%
2024 ACF Winter at Clemson	2024-11-16	Y	8	8.75	75%	13%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Northwestern	2024-11-16	Y	9	12.22	78%	33%	11%
2024 ACF Winter at Ohio State	2024-11-16	Y	7	8.57	57%	29%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Online	2024-11-16	Y	8	7.50	50%	25%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at UBC	2024-11-16	Y	3	16.67	100%	33%	33%
2024 ACF Winter at Oxford	2024-11-16	Y	11	12.73	100%	0%	27%
2024 ACF Winter at Brandeis	2024-11-16	Y	10	7.00	50%	10%	10%

Data


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