Question
An author from this island wrote a novel whose characters are connected by their witnessing of Philippe Petit’s tightrope walk across the Twin Towers. In a novel, the protagonist emigrates from this island to New York where she falls in love with Tony, who she marries before returning home to mourn the death of her sister Rose. The unnamed narrator “middle sister” breaks up with her “maybe-boyfriend” after receiving threats from the (*) Milkman in a novel from this island. Let the Great World Spin is by an author from this island. The life of Henry James is novelized in The Master, which is by an author from this island who wrote Brooklyn. This island forms the setting of Conversations with Friends and Normal People. For 10 points, name this island home to Sally Rooney and Colm Tóibín ■END■
Summary
2024 ARCADIA at Claremont | 2024-11-02 | Y | 3 | 100% | 33% | 0% | 114.67 |
2024 ARCADIA at Illinois | 2024-11-09 | Y | 4 | 100% | 25% | 0% | 104.25 |
2024 ARCADIA at Waterloo | 2024-11-09 | Y | 6 | 100% | 67% | 17% | 75.17 |
2024 ARCADIA at Penn State | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 50% | 0% | 50% | 102.00 |
2024 ARCADIA at Florida Tech | 2024-12-06 | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 122.00 |
2024 ARCADIA at BU | 2024-12-06 | Y | 5 | 100% | 40% | 0% | 86.80 |
2024 ARCADIA at GT | 2024-12-06 | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 25% | 132.75 |
2024 ARCADIA at Warwick | 2024-12-06 | Y | 5 | 100% | 20% | 40% | 108.40 |
2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 100% | 136.50 |
2024 ARCADIA at Duke | 2024-12-06 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 102.00 |
2024 ARCADIA at Missouri S&T | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 101.50 |
2024 ARCADIA Online | 2025-05-17 | Y | 4 | 100% | 25% | 0% | 83.25 |
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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Richard Lin | Amherst | Yale | 23 | 15 |
Shahar Schwartz | Berkeley Past | Stanford | 31 | -5 |
Anne Fjeld | Paddington in Peru (2024) | bingy academy | 42 | 15 |
Nick Edwards | McGill A | Toronto Chestnut Rice and Kamehameha | 42 | 15 |
Caleb Ott | Waterloo Basic | Toronto A | 45 | 15 |
Sanjay Shanmuga Perumal | Lambert | Innovation Academy A | 45 | -5 |
Mattias Ehatamm | Waterloo Aspidistra | Toronto Disband the Club 2k24 | 52 | 15 |
John Marvin | Chicago A | Illinois Orange | 54 | 15 |
Jesse Chusing | Ottawa Absolomabsolomabsolom | Toronto B | 56 | 15 |
Anuttam Ramji | Berkeley B | Berkeley A | 61 | -5 |
Henry Jameson | LSE A | Bristol | 61 | -5 |
Andy Huff | LSE B | Southampton | 62 | -5 |
Zosia Mikolajczuk | Southampton | LSE B | 62 | 15 |
Michael Kearney | Harvard | MIT | 63 | 15 |
Justine French | U[C]SD | Anderson et al. | 70 | 15 |
Moses Kitakule | In the Mood for Buzz | ASU->Stanford->ASU pipeline | 78 | 10 |
Braeden LaRoche | South Carolina | Virginia Tech B | 85 | 10 |
Madeline Straus | Tufts A | Brandeis A | 98 | 10 |
Gabe Forrest | Squidward Community College | Missouri | 98 | 10 |
Andrew Zeng | Madmen and Specialists | The cult of SGA | 99 | 10 |
Ariel Faeder | Pitt | RIT | 102 | 10 |
Noah Chin | Virginia Tech A | North Carolina B | 103 | 10 |
Fred Garvey | Truman | WashU | 105 | 10 |
Andrew Wang | Illinois Blue | Notre Dame | 105 | 10 |
Thomas Tibbetts | UCF A | UF B | 108 | 10 |
Ted Gan | Penn State | Maryland | 111 | -5 |
Antoni Kluzowski | Warwick B | Cambridge B | 111 | 10 |
Young Fenimore Lee | Old and Young | she limp on my waltz till i feel pathetique | 114 | 10 |
Benjamin McAvoy-Bickford | North Carolina A | Virginia Tech C | 118 | 10 |
Anna Barker | UCF B | Florida Tech | 118 | 10 |
Rayton Lin | Waterloo Cloze | McMaster ApocolocyntosisBidii | 120 | -5 |
Yusuf Baig | McMaster ApocolocyntosisBidii | Waterloo Cloze | 120 | 10 |
Issac Ojutomori | Tufts B | Bowdoin A | 123 | 10 |
Logan Mathis | SIUE | Chicago B | 123 | 10 |
Rahim Dina | Imperial A | Imperial B | 123 | 10 |
Kevin Flanagan | Bristol | LSE A | 123 | 10 |
Seraphina Charlotte Foo | Cambridge A | Warwick C | 123 | 10 |
Leo Law | UF A | UF C | 125 | 10 |
Quentin Mot | Georgia Tech B | Innovation Academy B | 125 | 10 |
Kayla Drajpuch | Brandeis B | Boston College A | 127 | 10 |
Joanna Xiao | Georgia Tech D | Georgia Tech C | 132 | 10 |
Eric Yang | Purdue A | Purdue B | 135 | 10 |
Eve Fleisig | Berkeley A | Berkeley B | 136 | 10 |
Ishan Joshi | Toronto Metropolitan A | Carleton A | 136 | 10 |
Addison Wiggins | USF | Valencia | 137 | 10 |
Michal Gerasimiuk | Stanford | Berkeley Past | 137 | 10 |
Krish Chinta | Innovation Academy A | Lambert | 137 | 10 |
Towery McNeil | Mississippi State | Milton | 137 | 0 |
Darren Kellis | Milton | Mississippi State | 137 | 10 |
Jason Cheng | Jason et al. | ALCU | 137 | 10 |
Will Alston | SGV Ventures | Claremont | 137 | 10 |