Question
A character asks, “if that isn’t prophecy, what is?” after opening a novel by this author to “page one hundred and twenty-nine.” This author, whose most famous work is read by Gabriel Betteredge in The Moonstone, wrote a novel whose title character reclaims her inheritance after a letter is intercepted by her son Humphry. The title character of a novel by this author reunites with her “Lancashire husband” Jemy in prison and is said to be “Twelve Year a Whore, five times a Wife.” That character, who titles a novel by this author that opens with a character “pleading her belly” at Newgate Prison, is Moll Flanders. In a novel by this author, a character inspired by Alexander Selkirk rescues Friday from cannibals. For 10 points, name this author of Robinson Crusoe. ■END■
Summary
2024 ACF Winter at UC Berkeley | 2024-11-16 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 104.00 |
2024 ACF Winter at Lehigh | 2024-11-16 | Y | 1 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 119.00 |
2024 ACF Winter at Northwestern | 2024-11-16 | Y | 9 | 100% | 0% | 11% | 101.56 |
2024 ACF Winter at Online | 2024-11-16 | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 91.63 |
2024 ACF Winter at UBC | 2024-11-16 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 119.33 |
2024 ACF Winter at Central Florida | 2024-11-16 | Y | 5 | 80% | 0% | 40% | 126.00 |
2024 ACF Winter at Oxford | 2024-11-16 | Y | 9 | 100% | 0% | 44% | 111.89 |
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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Arnav Lahoti (D2) | Texas B | Vassar B | 34 | 10 |
Michael Hunding | UIUC A | UChicago B | 48 | 10 |
Albert Nyang | LSE A | Cambridge A | 68 | -5 |
Collin Leck (D2) | Central Oklahoma | Texas D | 70 | 10 |
Zayyan Mahmood | Southampton A | Imperial B | 70 | -5 |
Seraphina Charlotte | Cambridge A | LSE A | 76 | 10 |
Omer Keskin | Oxford A | Durham B | 79 | 10 |
Bryce Cruise (D2) | Texas A | Arkansas | 83 | 10 |
Brynn Jones | Oregon State | NYU A | 83 | 10 |
Jisoo Park | UIUC C | Purdue A | 87 | 10 |
Anna Barker | UCF A | UF A | 87 | -5 |
Denis Liu | Stanford L | Stanford M | 102 | 10 |
Justin Hawkins | Indiana A | UChicago C | 103 | 10 |
Braden Booth (D2) | Missouri | McGill E | 103 | 10 |
Sophia Madrazo | Purdue C | UIUC D | 104 | 10 |
Ryan Fang | Stanford A | Berkeley B | 106 | 10 |
Arthur Gayden | UChicago A | Notre Dame | 106 | 10 |
Neal Joshi | WashU B | Purdue B | 106 | 10 |
Davis Johnson | Purdue D | UIUC B | 106 | 10 |
Logan Mathis | SIUE A | WashU D | 106 | -5 |
Roan Dowling | Iowa | Texas C | 106 | 10 |
Russell Nip (UG) | UBC A | UW A | 106 | 10 |
Gavin Markoff | Vanderbilt | Warwick A | 106 | -5 |
Kevin Flanagan | Bristol A | Cambridge D | 106 | 10 |
Yaj Jhajhria (DII) | UW B | Alberta | 107 | -5 |
Jeevan Iyadurai | UF C | UF F | 112 | -5 |
Benjamin Watson | Oxford B | Cambridge C | 112 | 10 |
Biniam Alaro | UF B | Florida Tech B | 118 | 10 |
Ryan Sharpe | LSE B | Imperial A | 118 | 10 |
Thomas Flexer | Penn State B | Lehigh A | 119 | 10 |
Kevin Ye | SFU | UBC B | 120 | 10 |
Emmett Cho | UChicago D | Northwestern A | 122 | 10 |
Aryan Pathak | UF E | UF D | 122 | 10 |
Kai Madgwick | Manchester | Southhampton B | 122 | 10 |
Claire Bennett (UG) | Vassar A | WUSTL A | 126 | 10 |
Hrishit Chaudhuri | NYU B | Colorado College | 128 | 10 |
Faiz Ahmed | Birmingham | Bristol B | 128 | -5 |
Lily Morris | Bristol B | Birmingham | 131 | 10 |
Gus Redding | Imperial B | Southampton A | 131 | 10 |
Theodor Martin | WashU D | SIUE A | 132 | 10 |
Anne Fjeld (DII) | Alberta | UW B | 132 | 10 |
Leo Law | UF A | UCF A | 132 | 10 |
Samuel Stella | Florida State University A | Florida Tech A | 132 | 10 |
Chris Levesley | Warwick A | Vanderbilt | 132 | 10 |