Question
Edmond Dantès (“don-TESS”) imagines Dumas writing billions of variants of The Count of Monte Cristo in a collection by this author, titled for a story contained in the moment when a hunter fires an arrow at a lion. This author created a unicellular narrator who evolves into a camel and a primordial sea in a story titled for their love interest, “Priscilla.” Two characters bet atoms on events that will happen in the far future in a story by this author. In a story by this author of (*) t zero, characters climb a ladder to farm milk from the moon, where Captain Vhd Vhd’s (“vood-vood’s”) wife becomes trapped with the recurring narrator Qfwfq (“KOOF-kuh”). This author named the 55 title constructs after women in a novel framed as a conversation between Kublai Khan and Marco Polo. For 10 points, name this author of Cosmicomics and Invisible Cities. ■END■
Summary
2024 ARCADIA at Claremont | 2024-11-02 | Y | 3 | 100% | 67% | 0% | 55.67 |
2024 ARCADIA at Illinois | 2024-11-09 | Y | 4 | 100% | 25% | 0% | 76.00 |
2024 ARCADIA at Waterloo | 2024-11-09 | Y | 6 | 83% | 33% | 17% | 80.40 |
2024 ARCADIA at Penn State | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 100% | 50% | 0% | 58.50 |
2024 ARCADIA at Florida Tech | 2024-12-06 | Y | 4 | 75% | 25% | 0% | 77.33 |
2024 ARCADIA at BU | 2024-12-06 | Y | 6 | 100% | 33% | 0% | 91.67 |
2024 ARCADIA at GT | 2024-12-06 | Y | 4 | 100% | 50% | 0% | 71.50 |
2024 ARCADIA at Warwick | 2024-12-06 | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 108.00 |
2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 100% | 50% | 50% | 62.50 |
2024 ARCADIA at Duke | 2024-12-06 | Y | 3 | 100% | 67% | 0% | 53.00 |
2024 ARCADIA at Missouri S&T | 2024-12-06 | Y | 1 | 100% | 100% | 0% | 78.00 |
2024 ARCADIA Online | 2025-05-17 | Y | 5 | 100% | 60% | 0% | 71.20 |
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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Orion Keller | Virginia Tech B | North Carolina A | 19 | 15 |
Krish Chinta | Innovation Academy A | Georgia Tech D | 19 | 15 |
Daniel Kim | Maryland | Pitt | 27 | 15 |
Omkar Marathe | Toyota Tundra Turbos — Twisting Truths - Tackling Trivia - Taming Titans | she limp on my waltz till i feel pathetique | 33 | 15 |
Arjun Kala | Illinois Blue | Chicago A | 33 | 15 |
Thomas Tibbetts | UCF A | UCF B | 34 | 15 |
Noah Chin | Virginia Tech A | South Carolina | 36 | 15 |
Shahar Schwartz | Berkeley Past | Berkeley A | 36 | 15 |
Sky Li | Toronto A | Toronto Metropolitan A | 36 | 15 |
Kevin Wang | Georgia Tech A | Lambert | 36 | 15 |
Kevin Park | Claremont | ALCU | 36 | 15 |
Anderson Wang | Anderson et al. | SGV Ventures | 36 | 15 |
Bryan Ugaz | ASU->Stanford->ASU pipeline | Paddington in Peru (2024) | 50 | 15 |
Richard Lin | Amherst | Boston University | 62 | 15 |
Nathan Sheffield | MIT | Bowdoin B | 66 | 15 |
Moses Kitakule | In the Mood for Buzz | Madmen and Specialists | 69 | 15 |
Yihong Chen | Toronto Chestnut Rice and Kamehameha | McMaster ApocolocyntosisBidii | 76 | -5 |
Halee Carey | McMaster ApocolocyntosisBidii | Toronto Chestnut Rice and Kamehameha | 76 | 0 |
Braden Booth | Missouri | WashU | 78 | 15 |
Caleb Ott | Waterloo Basic | Waterloo Cloze | 79 | 15 |
William Orr | Yale | Brandeis A | 88 | 10 |
Leo Law | UF A | USF | 88 | 10 |
Jesse Chusing | Ottawa Absolomabsolomabsolom | Toronto B | 88 | 10 |
Jay Kim | Chicago B | Notre Dame | 88 | 10 |
Michael Hunding | Illinois Orange | Purdue B | 88 | 10 |
Anuttam Ramji | Berkeley B | Stanford | 89 | 10 |
Michal Gerasimiuk | Stanford | Berkeley B | 89 | -5 |
Ted Gan | Penn State | RIT | 90 | 10 |
Logan Mathis | SIUE | Purdue A | 95 | 10 |
Cormac Beirne | LSE B | Warwick C | 95 | 10 |
Justine French | U[C]SD | Jason et al. | 95 | 10 |
Michael Kearney | Harvard | Clark Wilson | 98 | 10 |
Mattias Ehatamm | Waterloo Aspidistra | Carleton A | 98 | 10 |
Collin Leck | The cult of SGA | bingy academy | 100 | 10 |
Raymond Chen | Toronto Disband the Club 2k24 | McGill A | 101 | 10 |
Seraphina Charlotte Foo | Cambridge A | Bristol | 101 | 10 |
Antoni Kluzowski | Warwick B | Imperial A | 102 | 10 |
Michelle Luo | Johns Creek | Innovation Academy B | 103 | 10 |
Dylan Tanouye | Tufts B | Clark House | 104 | 10 |
Eric Chang | Virginia Tech C | North Carolina B | 104 | 10 |
Kevin Zheng | Social credit go vroom | Old and Young | 104 | 10 |
Clete Reinberger | Valencia | UF B | 110 | 10 |
Robert Crawley | Warwick A | Imperial B | 110 | 10 |
Arjun Nair | Innovation Academy C | Milton | 128 | 10 |
Blake Johnson | Boston College A | Bowdoin C | 132 | 10 |
Michael Wu | Southampton | Cambridge B | 132 | 10 |
Nicholas Nguyen | UF C | Florida Tech | 144 | 0 |
Valerie Unzueta | Florida Tech | UF C | 144 | 0 |