Question
In a story by this author, a character paints “beauties” for a Persian shopkeeper in exchange for opium to cure his insomnia. No one attends the funeral of an artist, who cuts his throat with a razor after a prostitute declines his marriage proposal, in a story by this author. A story by this author ends with a policeman following a giant-fisted ghost until it confronts him. A “certain clerk” from a “certain department” develops a delirious fever after being berated by a “Person of Consequence” in a story by this author. The title object is wrapped in cloth and thrown off the St. Isaac’s Bridge in a story by this author before it is found in a loaf of bread by a barber. For 10 points, name this author, whose many stories set in St. Petersburg include “Nevsky Prospekt,” “The Nose,” and “The Overcoat.” ■END■
Summary
2024 ACF Winter at UC Berkeley | 2024-11-16 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 69.67 |
2024 ACF Winter at Clemson | 2024-11-16 | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 25% | 101.25 |
2024 ACF Winter at Clemson | 2024-11-16 | Y | 8 | 88% | 0% | 63% | 97.29 |
2024 ACF Winter at Lehigh | 2024-11-16 | Y | 9 | 100% | 0% | 22% | 96.22 |
2024 ACF Winter at Northwestern | 2024-11-16 | Y | 9 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 98.56 |
2024 ACF Winter at Ohio State | 2024-11-16 | Y | 8 | 88% | 0% | 25% | 98.86 |
2024 ACF Winter at Online | 2024-11-16 | Y | 9 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 106.22 |
2024 ACF Winter at UBC | 2024-11-16 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 100.33 |
2024 ACF Winter at Oxford | 2024-11-16 | Y | 11 | 100% | 0% | 27% | 104.36 |
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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Will McCurley | Auburn A | Tusculum A | 30 | 10 |
Charles Young | Columbia A | Rowan A | 33 | -5 |
Omer Keskin | Oxford A | Cambridge A | 36 | 10 |
Kevin Wang | Georgia Tech B | Alabama A | 40 | 10 |
Arjun Kala | UIUC B | Indiana A | 40 | 10 |
Mitch McCullar | Penn State A | Johns Hopkins B | 43 | 10 |
Lucas Johns | Warwick A | Durham A | 49 | -5 |
David Bass | Johns Hopkins A | Penn B | 50 | 10 |
Olin Bose | Columbia B | Penn A | 51 | 10 |
Michael Wu | Southampton B | Birmingham | 54 | 10 |
Eve Fleisig | Berkeley C | Stanford A | 59 | 10 |
Yahwanth Bajji (DII) | Michigan A | Michigan B | 59 | -5 |
Albert Nyang | LSE A | Imperial A | 61 | 10 |
Parker McCoig | Tennesse A | Emory A | 66 | -5 |
Truman Fillbrandt (UG) | UW A | UBC B | 66 | 10 |
Gavin Markoff | Vanderbilt | Bristol B | 66 | 10 |
Ariel Faeder | Pitt A | Ohio State B (DII) | 67 | 10 |
Cohen Wiegers | Emory A | Georgia A | 69 | 10 |
Michal Gerasimiuk | Stanford M | Berkeley A | 73 | 10 |
Braeden LaRoche | South Carolina A | Georgia Tech A | 73 | -5 |
Eshan Pant (D2) | NYU A | Texas A | 73 | 10 |
Braden Booth (D2) | Missouri | Vassar A | 75 | 10 |
Katherine Lei | Stanford L | Berkeley B | 77 | 10 |
Danny Tran | Tennesse B | Georgia Tech D | 78 | 10 |
Towery McNeil (D2) | Mississippi State | WUSTL A | 80 | 10 |
Alex Thomas | Georgia Tech E | Alabama A | 81 | -5 |
Erin Chen | UBC A | Alberta | 84 | -5 |
Arunn Sankar | Georgia Tech C | South Carolina A | 85 | 10 |
Hazel DePreist-Sullivan | Bard A | Lehigh A | 85 | 10 |
Shourjo Ganguli (UG) | Ohio State A (UG) | Michigan State A | 85 | 10 |
Collin Leck (D2) | Central Oklahoma | McGill E | 85 | 10 |
Alvin Guo | UChicago C | Purdue A | 88 | 10 |
Aden Sun | UChicago A | Purdue B | 88 | 10 |
Nitish Sudhakar | Georgia Tech B | Tennesse A | 90 | -5 |
Sam McNamee | Notre Dame | WashU C | 90 | 10 |
Arunn Sankar | Georgia Tech C | Emory B | 91 | -5 |
Henry Bylinowski | Auburn A | Georgia Tech A | 91 | 10 |
Neal Joshi | WashU B | UIUC A | 91 | 10 |
Kevin Ye | SFU | UW B | 91 | 10 |
Andrei Hui | Cambridge B | Cambridge C | 91 | 10 |
Cohen Wiegers | Emory A | Tennesse A | 96 | 10 |
Ethan Furman | Haverford A | Penn State B | 98 | -5 |
Will Jones (DII) | Michigan State C (UG) | Kenyon A (UG) | 98 | 10 |
Will Jones (DII) | Michigan State C (UG) | Kenyon A (UG) | 98 | 10 |
Nadita | CWRU D | CWRU C | 99 | -5 |
Ni Kundargi (DII) | Michigan State B (UG) | Michigan C (UG) | 99 | 10 |
Austin Guo | Princeton A | Penn A | 100 | 10 |
Biyang Zhang (UG) | Michigan B | Michigan A | 100 | 10 |
Brynn Jones | Oregon State | NYU B | 101 | 10 |
Logan Mathis | SIUE A | UIUC C | 105 | 10 |
Malachi Ledford | Tusculum A | Clemson A | 111 | 10 |
Davis Johnson | Purdue D | Miami | 121 | 10 |
TJ Pickering | Auburn B | Auburn C | 122 | -5 |
Patrick Rivas-Giorgi | Columbia B | Rutgers C | 122 | 10 |
Ian Lu | Georgia Tech F | Georgia A | 123 | 10 |
Alex Thomas | Georgia Tech E | Auburn B | 123 | 10 |
Nermeen Rahman | Indiana B | UIUC D | 123 | 10 |
Roan Dowling | Iowa | Texas B | 123 | 10 |
Alex Wyrick | Tennesse A | Georgia Tech B | 126 | 10 |
Ethan Altshul | Emory B | Georgia Tech C | 126 | 10 |
Robert Merchant | Alabama A | Georgia Tech E | 126 | 10 |
Brandon Hunt | Auburn C | Auburn B | 126 | 0 |
Michael Zhou | Georgia Tech A | South Carolina A | 126 | 10 |
Victor Bender | Penn State B | Haverford A | 126 | 10 |
Kai Madgwick | Manchester | Bristol A | 126 | 10 |
Alexander Tenace (D2) | Arkansas | Texas D | 129 | 10 |
Ryan Sharpe | LSE B | Durham B | 136 | -5 |
George Purkiss | Warwick B | Edinburgh | 136 | -5 |
Alina Moore | Tennesse B | Emory B | 141 | 10 |
Ethan Altshul | Emory B | Tennesse B | 141 | -5 |
Sophia Madrazo | Purdue C | WashU D | 141 | 10 |
Zayyan Mahmood | Southampton A | Oxford B | 141 | 10 |
Ben Atchison | Cambridge D | Imperial B | 142 | 10 |
James Carrigy | Edinburgh | Warwick B | 142 | 10 |
Alex Wong | Rutgers A | Penn B | 144 | 10 |
Liam Markland | Alberta | UBC A | 144 | 10 |
Bella Thomas | Durham A | Warwick A | 144 | 10 |
John Shelly | Rowan A | Columbia A | 145 | 10 |
Daniel Huang (DII) | Michigan D (DII) | Kenyon B (DII) | 145 | 10 |
Keerthana Krishnan (D2) | Texas C | Colorado College | 145 | 10 |
Thomas Doyle (UG) | Vassar B | Ole Miss | 145 | 10 |
Sophie Hughes | Durham B | LSE B | 145 | 10 |