Question
This author praised Alexander Pope’s “speeches and spectacles” translation of the Odyssey in “The Homeric Versions,” which argues that “none or all” translations are faithful. This author argued that writers create their own precursors in an essay which claims that Browning’s “Fears and Scruples” prophesies Kafka. The narrator of a short story by this author finds an encyclopedia describing a Berkeleyian idealist society with a (*) nounless language. A narrator created by this author considers the original Don Quixote to be inferior to an identical version written by Pierre Menard. This author was inspired by the infinite monkey theorem in a work that imagines a universe filled with hexagonal rooms containing all possible books. For 10 points, name this author of “The Library of Babel.” ■END■
Summary
2024 ARCADIA at Claremont | 2024-11-02 | Y | 3 | 100% | 67% | 0% | 53.67 |
2024 ARCADIA at Waterloo | 2024-11-09 | Y | 6 | 100% | 33% | 0% | 67.67 |
2024 ARCADIA at Illinois | 2024-11-09 | Y | 4 | 100% | 50% | 25% | 61.00 |
2024 ARCADIA at Missouri S&T | 2024-12-06 | Y | 1 | 100% | 100% | 0% | 61.00 |
2024 ARCADIA at Penn State | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 100% | 50% | 0% | 58.00 |
2024 ARCADIA at Florida Tech | 2024-12-06 | Y | 4 | 75% | 25% | 0% | 81.33 |
2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 66.00 |
2024 ARCADIA at BU | 2024-12-06 | Y | 7 | 100% | 29% | 0% | 76.14 |
2024 ARCADIA at GT | 2024-12-06 | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 40% | 97.20 |
2024 ARCADIA at GT | 2024-12-06 | Y | 1 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 93.00 |
2024 ARCADIA at GT | 2024-12-06 | Y | 1 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 124.00 |
2024 ARCADIA at Duke | 2024-12-06 | Y | 3 | 100% | 33% | 0% | 75.00 |
2024 ARCADIA at Warwick | 2024-12-06 | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 73.80 |
2024 ARCADIA Online | 2025-05-17 | Y | 5 | 100% | 40% | 0% | 56.20 |
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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Arjun Nair | Innovation Academy C | Georgia Tech D | 33 | -5 |
Justine French | U[C]SD | ALCU | 33 | 15 |
Chris Yoo | she limp on my waltz till i feel pathetique | bingy academy | 36 | 15 |
Ariel Faeder | Pitt | Penn State | 36 | 15 |
Andrew Wang | Illinois Blue | SIUE | 40 | 15 |
Ned Tagtmeier | Chicago A | Purdue A | 44 | -5 |
Moses Kitakule | In the Mood for Buzz | Toyota Tundra Turbos — Twisting Truths - Tackling Trivia - Taming Titans | 49 | 15 |
Krish Chinta | Innovation Academy A | Innovation Academy B | 54 | -5 |
Orion Keller | Virginia Tech B | Virginia Tech A | 60 | 15 |
Thomas Tibbetts | UCF A | UF B | 60 | 15 |
Gabe Forrest | Squidward Community College | WashU | 61 | 15 |
Michael Hunding | Illinois Orange | Notre Dame | 61 | 15 |
Yrwin Batan | MIT | Bowdoin A | 62 | 15 |
Maude-Sophie Lockman | Ottawa Absolomabsolomabsolom | Carleton A | 62 | 15 |
Will Alston | SGV Ventures | Claremont | 62 | 15 |
Blake Johnson | Boston College A | BU | 64 | 15 |
Nick Edwards | McGill A | Waterloo Cloze | 64 | 15 |
Joy An | Harvard | Boston College B | 65 | 10 |
Daniel Ma | Madmen and Specialists | Paddington in Peru (2024) | 65 | 10 |
Kevin Zheng | Social credit go vroom | The cult of SGA | 65 | 10 |
William Orr | Yale | Clark House | 66 | 10 |
Bryan Ugaz | ASU->Stanford->ASU pipeline | Old and Young | 66 | 10 |
Eve Fleisig | Berkeley A | Stanford | 66 | 10 |
Shahar Schwartz | Berkeley Past | Berkeley B | 66 | 10 |
Caleb Ott | Waterloo Basic | Toronto A | 66 | 10 |
Ben Wismath | Toronto B | Toronto Chestnut Rice and Kamehameha | 66 | 10 |
Kevin Wang | Georgia Tech A | Johns Creek | 66 | 10 |
Eric Yang | Purdue A | Chicago A | 66 | 10 |
Seraphina Charlotte Foo | Cambridge A | Cambridge B | 66 | 10 |
Anderson Wang | Anderson et al. | Jason et al. | 66 | 10 |
Albert Nyang | LSE A | Imperial A | 67 | 10 |
Benjamin McAvoy-Bickford | North Carolina A | North Carolina B | 68 | 10 |
Raymond Chen | Toronto Disband the Club 2k24 | Toronto Metropolitan A | 68 | 10 |
Antoni Kluzowski | Warwick B | Southampton | 68 | 10 |
Richard Lin | Amherst | Bowdoin C | 77 | 10 |
Leo Law | UF A | UF C | 77 | 10 |
Samarth Ram | Chicago B | Purdue B | 77 | 10 |
Daniel Kim | Maryland | RIT | 80 | 10 |
Mattias Ehatamm | Waterloo Aspidistra | McMaster ApocolocyntosisBidii | 80 | 10 |
Robert Crawley | Warwick A | Bristol | 80 | 10 |
Michael Zhou | Georgia Tech B | Milton | 84 | 10 |
Dylan Tanouye | Tufts B | Brandeis A | 88 | 10 |
Sanjay Shanmuga Perumal | Lambert | Georgia Tech C | 88 | 10 |
Charlie Lowman | Imperial B | Warwick C | 88 | 10 |
Towery McNeil | Mississippi State | Georgia Tech B | 93 | 10 |
Braeden LaRoche | South Carolina | Virginia Tech C | 97 | 10 |
Clete Reinberger | Valencia | UCF B | 107 | 10 |
Riley Roessler | Bowdoin B | Tufts A | 111 | 10 |
Addison Wiggins | USF | Florida Tech | 124 | 0 |
Zach Tseng | Georgia Tech D | Innovation Academy C | 124 | 10 |
Ian Droessler Wilson | Innovation Academy B | Innovation Academy A | 124 | 10 |
Pranav Jothi | Georgia Tech C | Innovation Academy B | 124 | 10 |