Question
This author incorporated friends like Theodor von Hippel and David Koreff into a Decameron-esque collection that outlines his elusive Serapion principle. The protagonist of a story by this author receives a jewelry box containing the couplet “a lover who is afraid of thieves / is not worthy of love.” Ernst Jentsch analyzed the “intellectual uncertainty” of a story by this author in which a telescope salesman advertises “pretty (*) eyes, pretty eyes.” Along with Poe, this author is often cited as the creator of the modern detective story for his novella Mademoiselle de Scuderi. Sigmund Freud’s essay “The Uncanny” examines a story by this author in which Nathanael realizes that Olympia is an automaton created by Coppelius, whom he associates with the title mythical night visitor. For 10 points, name this German author of “The Sandman.” ■END■
Summary
2024 ARCADIA at Claremont | 2024-11-02 | Y | 3 | 100% | 33% | 0% | 66.33 |
2024 ARCADIA at Illinois | 2024-11-09 | Y | 4 | 75% | 50% | 25% | 81.67 |
2024 ARCADIA at Waterloo | 2024-11-09 | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 118.83 |
2024 ARCADIA at Penn State | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 102.50 |
2024 ARCADIA at Florida Tech | 2024-12-06 | Y | 3 | 33% | 0% | 33% | 92.00 |
2024 ARCADIA at BU | 2024-12-06 | Y | 4 | 50% | 25% | 25% | 86.00 |
2024 ARCADIA at GT | 2024-12-06 | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 40% | 125.80 |
2024 ARCADIA at Warwick | 2024-12-06 | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 20% | 128.60 |
2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 100% | 50% | 50% | 68.00 |
2024 ARCADIA at Duke | 2024-12-06 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 96.00 |
2024 ARCADIA at Missouri S&T | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 100% | 50% | 0% | 78.50 |
2024 ARCADIA Online | 2025-05-17 | Y | 5 | 100% | 20% | 0% | 74.20 |
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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Andrew Wang | Illinois Blue | Illinois Orange | 50 | 15 |
Andrew Zeng | Madmen and Specialists | Old and Young | 53 | 15 |
Will Alston | SGV Ventures | Jason et al. | 53 | 15 |
William Orr | Yale | Amherst | 54 | 15 |
Gabe Forrest | Squidward Community College | WashU | 57 | 15 |
John Marvin | Chicago A | Chicago B | 60 | 15 |
Thomas Tibbetts | UCF A | UF C | 66 | -5 |
Eve Fleisig | Berkeley A | Stanford | 66 | 15 |
Anuttam Ramji | Berkeley B | Berkeley Past | 68 | -5 |
Kaiwen Xiao | ALCU | Anderson et al. | 68 | 10 |
Ali Hamzeh | Toyota Tundra Turbos — Twisting Truths - Tackling Trivia - Taming Titans | ASU->Stanford->ASU pipeline | 70 | 10 |
Ariel Faeder | Pitt | Penn State | 70 | 10 |
Shahar Schwartz | Berkeley Past | Berkeley B | 70 | 10 |
Parth Jagtap | Toronto B | Waterloo Aspidistra | 70 | -5 |
Maude-Sophie Lockman | Ottawa Absolomabsolomabsolom | Toronto Chestnut Rice and Kamehameha | 71 | 10 |
King Vidor | In the Mood for Buzz | Paddington in Peru (2024) | 72 | 10 |
Jacob Finley | Notre Dame | SIUE | 73 | -5 |
Albert Nyang | LSE A | Warwick A | 73 | -5 |
Collin Leck | The cult of SGA | she limp on my waltz till i feel pathetique | 78 | 10 |
Nolan Dannels | U[C]SD | Claremont | 78 | 10 |
Arunn Sankar | Georgia Tech B | Innovation Academy A | 84 | -5 |
Tiffany Zhou | UF A | UF B | 92 | 10 |
Nick Smemoe | North Carolina B | South Carolina | 94 | 10 |
Noah Chin | Virginia Tech A | North Carolina A | 97 | 10 |
Eric Chang | Virginia Tech C | Virginia Tech B | 97 | 10 |
Shourjo Ganguli | bingy academy | Social credit go vroom | 98 | 10 |
Fred Garvey | Truman | Missouri | 100 | 10 |
Raymond Chen | Toronto Disband the Club 2k24 | Waterloo Cloze | 102 | -5 |
Benjamin Chapman | Toronto A | McGill A | 107 | 10 |
Seraphina Charlotte Foo | Cambridge A | Imperial A | 108 | 10 |
Kevin Wang | Georgia Tech A | Georgia Tech C | 109 | 10 |
Will Pulvino | Clark Wilson | Bowdoin A | 115 | -5 |
Manu Sankaran | Lambert | Georgia Tech D | 115 | 10 |
Towery McNeil | Mississippi State | Innovation Academy B | 115 | -5 |
Joy An | Harvard | Bowdoin B | 118 | 10 |
Caleb Ott | Waterloo Basic | Toronto Metropolitan A | 130 | 10 |
Antoni Kluzowski | Warwick B | Warwick C | 131 | 10 |
Cormac Beirne | LSE B | Cambridge B | 134 | 10 |
Evan Lucca | Bowdoin A | Clark Wilson | 135 | 0 |
Dylan Tanouye | Tufts B | BU | 135 | 0 |
Cade Reinberger | RIT | Maryland | 135 | 10 |
Clete Reinberger | Valencia | Florida Tech | 135 | 0 |
Aidan Bernardo | Florida Tech | Valencia | 135 | 0 |
Nicholas Nguyen | UF C | UCF A | 135 | 0 |
Halee Carey | McMaster ApocolocyntosisBidii | Carleton A | 135 | 10 |
Rayton Lin | Waterloo Cloze | Toronto Disband the Club 2k24 | 135 | 10 |
Jared He | Waterloo Aspidistra | Toronto B | 135 | 10 |
Krish Chinta | Innovation Academy A | Georgia Tech B | 135 | 10 |
Edward Kim | Johns Creek | Milton | 135 | 10 |
Ian Droessler Wilson | Innovation Academy B | Mississippi State | 135 | 10 |
David Mathew | Purdue A | Purdue B | 135 | 10 |
Kevin Flanagan | Bristol | Imperial B | 135 | 10 |
Robert Crawley | Warwick A | LSE A | 135 | 10 |