Question

The final three lines of a novel in this language spell out “e-n-d” after its funnel-shaped last paragraph progressively loses words and letters. The US government quarantines the passengers (-5[1])of a duplicated airline flight in that 2020 novel in this language, The Anomaly. Another novel in this language (15[1])follows a knight’s tour through a 100-room (15[2])apartment building, (15[2]-5[1])frozen (15[1])in time (15[1])at the death of an obsessive (15[1])jigsaw puzzle solver named (-5[1])(*) Bartlebooth. (10[2])A story in this language is retold (10[1])99 times in Exercises (10[1])in (10[1])Style, which was written by the author of a novel in this language about a 10-year-old girl (10[1])visiting her (10[1])uncle (10[1])Gabriel. The disappearance of Anton Vowl occurs in a novel in this language (10[3])written (10[1])entirely without the letter (10[1])e. (10[3])For 10 (10[1])points, name this language used to write the novel A Void and others by Oulipo (“oo-lee-PO”) authors Raymond Queneau (10[1])(“kuh-NO”) and Georges Perec ■END■ (10[4]0[2])

ANSWER: French [or Francaise] (The Anomaly is by contemporary Oulipo author Herve Le Tellier. The novel in the third sentence is Life: A User’s Manual by Perec. The last unnamed novel is Zazie in the Metro by Queneau.)
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Anuttam RamjiBerkeley BBerkeley A28-5
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Gabe ForrestSquidward Community CollegeMissouri5415
Thomas TibbettsUCF AUF B5415
Nathan SheffieldMITHarvard5615
Andrew ZengMadmen and SpecialistsThe cult of SGA5615
Shahar SchwartzBerkeley PastStanford56-5
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Ariel FaederPittRIT6515
William OrrYaleAmherst69-5
Eve FleisigBerkeley ABerkeley B7010
Albert NyangLSE ABristol7010
Michael ZhouGeorgia Tech BInnovation Academy B7710
Seraphina Charlotte FooCambridge AWarwick C8110
Antoni KluzowskiWarwick BCambridge B8210
David LatimerImperial BImperial A9910
Noah ChinVirginia Tech ANorth Carolina B10110
Krish ChintaInnovation Academy ALambert10210
Eric ChangVirginia Tech CNorth Carolina A11510
Tiffany ZhouUF AUF C11510
Andy HuffLSE BSouthampton11510
Neal JoshiWashUTruman11610
Pranav JothiGeorgia Tech CGeorgia Tech D12010
Kayla DrajpuchBrandeis BBoston College A12110
Johan ShijuPenn StateMaryland12110
Sophie TorresUCF BFlorida Tech12110
Jonathan SchnipperBrandeis ATufts A12310
Elliot RothTufts BBowdoin A14110
Richard LinAmherstYale14510
Emily KadolphVirginia Tech BSouth Carolina14510
Rivera RiveraValenciaUSF1450
Addison WigginsUSFValencia1450
Michal GerasimiukStanfordBerkeley Past14510
Darren KellisMiltonMississippi State14510