Question
This author modified a Quranic term for revelations called “amthal” for a concept of limit testing. Lesley Blanch’s book The Sabres of Paradise inspired this author’s usage of Caucasian customs such as a double-bladed knife called a kindjal. Car repair manual company Chilton Books published this author, who named a fictional event after “Darwin Among the Machines” author Samuel (*) Butler. This author created a series of creatures after watching maggots eat away at psychedelic mushrooms. This author was inspired by environmental stabilization projects in an Oregon national park to depict the terraforming efforts of Indigenous people called Fremen (“FREH-men”). Oil is analogized to a resource called “spice” in a 1965 novel by this author set on the planet of Arrakis. For 10 points, name this author of Dune. ■END■
Summary
2024 ARCADIA at Claremont | 2024-11-02 | Y | 3 | 100% | 67% | 0% | 60.33 |
2024 ARCADIA at Illinois | 2024-11-09 | Y | 4 | 75% | 25% | 25% | 57.00 |
2024 ARCADIA at Waterloo | 2024-11-09 | Y | 5 | 100% | 40% | 0% | 75.60 |
2024 ARCADIA at Penn State | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 100% | 112.50 |
2024 ARCADIA at Florida Tech | 2024-12-06 | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 25% | 94.00 |
2024 ARCADIA at BU | 2024-12-06 | Y | 8 | 100% | 13% | 0% | 71.13 |
2024 ARCADIA at GT | 2024-12-06 | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 20% | 94.60 |
2024 ARCADIA at Warwick | 2024-12-06 | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 60% | 99.80 |
2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 50% | 108.50 |
2024 ARCADIA at Duke | 2024-12-06 | Y | 3 | 100% | 33% | 0% | 68.67 |
2024 ARCADIA at Missouri S&T | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 103.00 |
2024 ARCADIA Online | 2025-05-17 | Y | 5 | 100% | 20% | 0% | 77.40 |
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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Michael Sun | Brandeis B | Bowdoin A | 15 | 15 |
Kaiwen Xiao | ALCU | U[C]SD | 39 | 15 |
Sam McNamee | Notre Dame | Illinois Blue | 43 | 15 |
Antonio LaNave | Virginia Tech A | South Carolina | 46 | 15 |
Sasha Fillbrandt | Paddington in Peru (2024) | The cult of SGA | 46 | 15 |
Anderson Wang | Anderson et al. | Claremont | 46 | 15 |
Gareth Thorlakson | Toronto A | Toronto B | 48 | 15 |
Ishan Joshi | Toronto Metropolitan A | McMaster ApocolocyntosisBidii | 57 | 15 |
Leo Law | UF A | UCF A | 58 | -5 |
Jonathan Schnipper | Brandeis A | BU | 61 | 10 |
Blake Johnson | Boston College A | Tufts B | 62 | 10 |
Issac Meredith | Tufts A | Harvard | 62 | 10 |
Benjamin McAvoy-Bickford | North Carolina A | Virginia Tech B | 62 | 10 |
Aryan Desarapu | bingy academy | In the Mood for Buzz | 62 | 10 |
Krish Chinta | Innovation Academy A | Georgia Tech C | 62 | 10 |
Ned Tagtmeier | Chicago A | Purdue B | 62 | 10 |
Jacob Rosenberg | Innovation Academy C | Lambert | 63 | 10 |
Graham Cope | UF B | UF C | 66 | 10 |
Aneesh Shotriya | Purdue A | Chicago B | 66 | 10 |
Agnijo Banerjee | Cambridge A | Southampton | 68 | 10 |
Asha Basu | McGill A | Carleton A | 72 | 10 |
Derek Fino | Clark House | Amherst | 74 | 10 |
Andrew Zeng | Madmen and Specialists | she limp on my waltz till i feel pathetique | 74 | 10 |
Michelle Luo | Johns Creek | Georgia Tech D | 74 | -5 |
Riley Roessler | Bowdoin B | Boston College B | 79 | 10 |
Andre Wong | LSE A | Warwick C | 81 | -5 |
Danny Peelen | Pitt | RIT | 87 | -5 |
Alexander Nichols | UCF A | UF A | 87 | 10 |
Rahim Dina | Imperial A | Warwick A | 87 | 10 |
Eve Fleisig | Berkeley A | Berkeley B | 91 | 10 |
Jason Cheng | Jason et al. | SGV Ventures | 96 | 10 |
Neal Joshi | WashU | Truman | 97 | 10 |
Liam Kusalik | Waterloo Aspidistra | Waterloo Basic | 97 | 10 |
Kevin Wang | Georgia Tech A | Mississippi State | 97 | 10 |
Nick Smemoe | North Carolina B | Virginia Tech C | 98 | 10 |
Cade Reinberger | RIT | Pitt | 98 | 10 |
Akshar Goyal | Illinois Orange | SIUE | 98 | -5 |
Shiv Seshan | Cambridge B | Imperial B | 98 | -5 |
Antoni Kluzowski | Warwick B | LSE B | 98 | -5 |
Charlie Lowman | Imperial B | Cambridge B | 99 | 10 |
Owen Riley | Toyota Tundra Turbos — Twisting Truths - Tackling Trivia - Taming Titans | Old and Young | 100 | 10 |
Michal Gerasimiuk | Stanford | Berkeley Past | 103 | -5 |
Xavier Spano | Waterloo Cloze | Toronto Chestnut Rice and Kamehameha | 104 | 10 |
Denis Liu | ASU->Stanford->ASU pipeline | Social credit go vroom | 105 | 10 |
William Orr | Yale | Bowdoin C | 108 | 10 |
Sam Vu | MIT | Clark Wilson | 108 | 10 |
Owen Arneson | Missouri | Squidward Community College | 109 | 10 |
Anna Barker | UCF B | Florida Tech | 111 | 10 |
Johan Shiju | Penn State | Maryland | 112 | -5 |
Clete Reinberger | Valencia | USF | 112 | 10 |
Josh Howarth | Warwick C | LSE A | 118 | 10 |
Suhit Damani | Innovation Academy B | Milton | 124 | 10 |
Eric Chen | Berkeley Past | Stanford | 126 | 10 |
Daniel Kim | Maryland | Penn State | 127 | 10 |
Joanna Xiao | Georgia Tech D | Johns Creek | 127 | 10 |
Cormac Beirne | LSE B | Warwick B | 127 | 10 |