Question
This author wrote a play about a family whose duty is to carry a dwarf boat out to the river once a year. This author created a group of women that chants “little children are our champions” after their daughters mock and chase away a policeman trying to stop a wedding. Jaguna’s trap kills the protagonist of a play by this author, in which a mentally challenged boy is replaced as the “carrier” by Eman. In a play by this author of The Strong Breed, the “mother of the market” allows the protagonist to marry and sleep with her son’s fiancée. Despite his assurances to the Praise-Singer in one of this author’s plays, the father of the medical student Olunde hesitates until Simon Pilkings stops him from committing ritual suicide. For 10 points, name this Nigerian author of Death and the King’s Horseman. ■END■
Summary
2024 ACF Winter at UC Berkeley | 2024-11-16 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 69.00 |
2024 ACF Winter at Clemson | 2024-11-16 | Y | 8 | 88% | 0% | 13% | 111.00 |
2024 ACF Winter at Northwestern | 2024-11-16 | Y | 9 | 89% | 0% | 0% | 105.38 |
2024 ACF Winter at Ohio State | 2024-11-16 | Y | 7 | 100% | 0% | 14% | 116.71 |
2024 ACF Winter at Online | 2024-11-16 | Y | 8 | 88% | 0% | 13% | 108.14 |
2024 ACF Winter at UBC | 2024-11-16 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 90.67 |
2024 ACF Winter at Oxford | 2024-11-16 | Y | 11 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 120.64 |
2024 ACF Winter at Brandeis | 2024-11-16 | Y | 10 | 90% | 0% | 0% | 110.56 |
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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Ryan Fang | Stanford A | Stanford L | 45 | 10 |
Eve Fleisig | Berkeley C | Stanford M | 50 | 10 |
Zach Tseng | Georgia Tech E | Georgia Tech B | 50 | 10 |
William Orr | Yale A | Carabrandeis | 50 | 10 |
Luke Strole (DII) | UW B | Alberta | 63 | 10 |
Yahwanth Bajji (DII) | Michigan A | Michigan State A | 77 | 10 |
Stephen Walsh | Northwestern A | UIUC C | 79 | 10 |
Shourjo Ganguli (UG) | Ohio State A (UG) | Pitt A | 80 | -5 |
Roan Dowling | Iowa | Texas D | 80 | -5 |
Shardul Parthasarathy | UIUC B | Indiana B | 84 | 10 |
Justin Hawkins | Indiana A | Notre Dame | 85 | 10 |
Truman Fillbrandt (UG) | UW A | UBC A | 86 | 10 |
Braden Booth (D2) | Missouri | Mississippi State | 89 | 10 |
Eshan Pant (D2) | NYU A | Texas C | 91 | 10 |
Aden Sun | UChicago A | Purdue C | 92 | 10 |
Albert Nyang | LSE A | Cambridge C | 92 | 10 |
Collin Leck (D2) | Central Oklahoma | Vassar A | 96 | 10 |
Andrei Hui | Cambridge B | Bristol A | 96 | 10 |
Dylan Tanouye | Tufts B | Tufts A | 96 | 10 |
Jisoo Yoo | Texas A | Colorado College | 100 | 10 |
Yrwin Batan | MIT A | Brown A | 100 | 10 |
Ethan Altshul | Emory B | South Carolina A | 106 | 10 |
Rohan Ganeshan | Harvard A | Northeastern A | 106 | 10 |
Neal Joshi | WashU B | Purdue A | 109 | 10 |
Richard Lin | Amherst A | Boston University A | 109 | 10 |
Arnav Lahoti (D2) | Texas B | Arkansas | 111 | 10 |
Nathaniel Hull | Berkeley A | Berkeley B | 112 | 10 |
Ariel Faeder | Pitt A | Ohio State A (UG) | 112 | 10 |
Justin Keung | Imperial A | Cambridge A | 112 | 10 |
Gavin Markoff | Vanderbilt | LSE B | 117 | 10 |
Malachi Ledford | Tusculum A | Georgia Tech C | 119 | 10 |
Biyang Zhang (UG) | Michigan B | CWRU D (DII) | 119 | 10 |
Eveline Ong | Oxford A | Manchester | 119 | 10 |
Henry Bylinowski | Auburn A | Georgia Tech D | 120 | 10 |
Jem Burch | Yale B | Boston University B | 120 | 10 |
Bob Freedman | Georgia A | Alabama A | 123 | 10 |
Reilly Melville | Purdue B | Miami | 123 | 10 |
Sai Subramanian (DII) | CWRU A (UG) | CWRU C (UG) | 123 | 10 |
Peter | OSU C | Kenyon A | 123 | 10 |
Kevin Ye | SFU | UBC B | 123 | 10 |
Mikey Brown | Birmingham | Southampton A | 123 | 10 |
Luke Zhang | Emory A | Auburn C | 124 | 10 |
Matthew KElley (DII) | Michigan C (UG) | Michigan State C (UG) | 125 | 10 |
Brynn Jones | Oregon State | Ole Miss | 127 | 10 |
Chris Levesley | Warwick A | Southampton B | 127 | 10 |
Logan Mathis | SIUE A | UChicago B | 129 | 10 |
George Purkiss | Warwick B | Durham B | 129 | 10 |
Will Locke | Tennesse B | Clemson A | 135 | -5 |
Allen Xu | Georgia Tech F | Auburn B | 135 | 10 |
James Carrigy | Edinburgh | Bristol B | 135 | 10 |
Kevin Zheng | Yale C | Brandeises Brew | 135 | 10 |
Tom Haines | Durham A | Cam D | 136 | 10 |
Kayla Drajpuch | A Brandeis Supreme | Clark A | 136 | 10 |
Ruchir Kodihalli (UG) | CWRU B (UG) | Michigan D (DII) | 138 | 10 |
Benjamin Watson | Oxford B | Imperial B | 141 | 10 |
Conner Yamnitz | WashU C | UIUC D | 142 | 10 |
Charlie Weaver | Clemson A | Tennesse B | 143 | 0 |
Henry Lytle | WashU D | Purdue D | 143 | 0 |
Arthur Zhang (D2) | NYU B | McGill E | 143 | 10 |
Luca Balescu (D2) | Texas D | Iowa | 143 | 0 |
Chloe Wei (D2) | McGill E | NYU B | 143 | 0 |
Ethan Young | Williams A | Bowdoin A | 143 | 0 |
Christopher Dech | Diamond Brandeis | Bowdoin B | 143 | 10 |