Question
George Orr has “effective dreams” that change reality, yet only dreams “cheap utopian concepts” in a novel by this author titled for a Zhuangzi (“JWONG-dzuh”) mistranslation. A short story by this author is set from Eve’s point of view as she “unnames” each creature and finally returns her name to Adam. This author depicted the last day in the life of Laia Odo right before a revolution she inspired, which creates a society shown in an earlier novel. In a novel by this author, Genly Ai’s arrival at Karhide convinces them to accept the (*) Ekumen treaty fulfilling Estraven’s prediction. Dostoevsky inspired this author’s creation of a key to a utopia depending on the misery of a child locked in a cellar in “The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas.” For 10 points, name this author of the Hainish Cycle, The Left Hand of Darkness and the Earthsea series. ■END■
Summary
2024 ARCADIA at Claremont | 2024-11-02 | Y | 3 | 100% | 100% | 0% | 51.33 |
2024 ARCADIA at Waterloo | 2024-11-09 | Y | 6 | 100% | 33% | 0% | 108.50 |
2024 ARCADIA at Illinois | 2024-11-09 | Y | 4 | 100% | 50% | 0% | 99.00 |
2024 ARCADIA at Missouri S&T | 2024-12-06 | Y | 1 | 100% | 0% | 100% | 127.00 |
2024 ARCADIA at Penn State | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 110.00 |
2024 ARCADIA at Florida Tech | 2024-12-06 | Y | 4 | 75% | 25% | 25% | 98.67 |
2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 100% | 50% | 0% | 88.50 |
2024 ARCADIA at BU | 2024-12-06 | Y | 7 | 100% | 14% | 43% | 123.00 |
2024 ARCADIA at GT | 2024-12-06 | Y | 5 | 100% | 20% | 0% | 120.20 |
2024 ARCADIA at GT | 2024-12-06 | Y | 1 | 100% | 0% | 100% | 122.00 |
2024 ARCADIA at GT | 2024-12-06 | Y | 1 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 110.00 |
2024 ARCADIA at Duke | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 50% | 128.50 |
2024 ARCADIA at Warwick | 2024-12-06 | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 124.40 |
2024 ARCADIA Online | 2025-05-17 | Y | 5 | 100% | 60% | 0% | 87.60 |
Buzzes
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Ian Tullis | Anderson et al. | Jason et al. | 20 | 15 |
Vivian Malouf | In the Mood for Buzz | Toyota Tundra Turbos — Twisting Truths - Tackling Trivia - Taming Titans | 26 | 15 |
Justine French | U[C]SD | ALCU | 49 | 15 |
Noah Chin | Virginia Tech A | Virginia Tech B | 51 | -5 |
Thomas Tibbetts | UCF A | UF B | 51 | 15 |
Matthew Sumanen | Georgia Tech B | Mississippi State | 66 | -5 |
Jonathan Schnipper | Brandeis A | Tufts B | 68 | 15 |
Eve Fleisig | Berkeley A | Stanford | 69 | 15 |
William Orr | Yale | Clark House | 76 | -5 |
Zach Joseph | Notre Dame | Illinois Orange | 76 | 15 |
Jeremy Cummings | WashU | Squidward Community College | 80 | -5 |
Joy An | Harvard | Boston College B | 84 | -5 |
Mattias Ehatamm | Waterloo Aspidistra | McMaster ApocolocyntosisBidii | 84 | 15 |
Kevin Wang | Georgia Tech A | Johns Creek | 84 | 15 |
Chris Yoo | she limp on my waltz till i feel pathetique | bingy academy | 85 | 15 |
Will Alston | SGV Ventures | Claremont | 85 | 15 |
Andrew Zeng | Madmen and Specialists | Paddington in Peru (2024) | 87 | 15 |
Aneesh Shotriya | Purdue A | Chicago A | 87 | 15 |
Sky Li | Toronto A | Waterloo Basic | 91 | 15 |
Parth Jagtap | Toronto B | Toronto Chestnut Rice and Kamehameha | 98 | 10 |
Anuttam Ramji | Berkeley B | Berkeley Past | 108 | 10 |
Antoni Kluzowski | Warwick B | Southampton | 108 | 10 |
Chris Scheri | RIT | Maryland | 109 | 10 |
Ian Droessler Wilson | Innovation Academy B | Georgia Tech C | 110 | 10 |
Ariel Faeder | Pitt | Penn State | 111 | 10 |
John McQueen | South Carolina | Virginia Tech C | 115 | 10 |
Jay Kim | Chicago B | Purdue B | 115 | 10 |
Richard Lim | Bowdoin C | Amherst | 116 | 10 |
Mike Cheyne | Old and Young | ASU->Stanford->ASU pipeline | 116 | 10 |
Anna Barker | UCF B | Valencia | 116 | -5 |
Athan Juritsch | Toronto Disband the Club 2k24 | Toronto Metropolitan A | 116 | 10 |
Arunn Sankar | Georgia Tech B | Milton | 116 | 10 |
Albert Nyang | LSE A | Imperial A | 116 | 10 |
Riley Roessler | Bowdoin B | Tufts A | 118 | 10 |
Asha Basu | McGill A | Waterloo Cloze | 118 | 10 |
Andrew Wang | Illinois Blue | SIUE | 118 | 10 |
Nathan Sheffield | MIT | Bowdoin A | 119 | 10 |
Nicholas Nguyen | UF C | UF A | 119 | 10 |
Kai McFarland | BU | Boston College A | 120 | -5 |
Towery McNeil | Mississippi State | Georgia Tech B | 122 | 10 |
Kevin Zheng | Social credit go vroom | The cult of SGA | 124 | 10 |
Agnijo Banerjee | Cambridge A | Cambridge B | 125 | 10 |
Rivera Rivera | Valencia | UCF B | 126 | 10 |
Robert Crawley | Warwick A | Bristol | 126 | 10 |
Gabe Forrest | Squidward Community College | WashU | 127 | 10 |
Louis Harney | Georgia Tech C | Lambert | 127 | 10 |
Krish Chinta | Innovation Academy A | Innovation Academy B | 127 | 10 |
Orion Keller | Virginia Tech B | Virginia Tech A | 142 | 10 |
Maude-Sophie Lockman | Ottawa Absolomabsolomabsolom | Carleton A | 144 | 10 |
Blake Johnson | Boston College A | BU | 146 | 10 |
Gabriel Margolies | Boston College B | Harvard | 147 | 10 |
Derek Fino | Clark House | Yale | 147 | 10 |
Aidan Bernardo | Florida Tech | USF | 147 | 0 |
Joanna Xiao | Georgia Tech D | Innovation Academy C | 147 | 10 |
Charlie Lowman | Imperial B | Warwick C | 147 | 10 |