Question

An author from this country is warned “pride goeth before a fall” and told to pray for forgiveness after telling her teacher she wanted to write like Wordsworth. After the death of her father seventeen years prior, (-5[1])a travel author wrote about exploring a deserted amusement park in this country in the book Looking for Transwonderland. An epistolary essay (15[1])by an author from this country uses the example of Theresa May and her husband to argue against “Feminism Lite” (15[1])in one of its (*) fifteen title (10[1])“suggestions.” An author (10[1])from this country described herself as a “feminist with a small ‘f’” in an essay (10[1])recounting her education prior to writing (10[1])her novel Second Class Citizen. (10[1])An author from this country noted (10[1])“there’s a problem with gender as it is today” (10[1])in a book adapted from a TED talk. (10[4])For (10[1])10 (10[1])points, (-5[1])name this home country of the author of We Should All Be Feminists, (10[1])Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. ■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: Nigeria [or Federal Republic of Nigeria; or Najeriya; or Naìjíríyà] (The unnamed authors are Buchi Emecheta and Noo Saro-Wiwa.)
<Literature - World Literature - Misc Literature>
= Average correct buzz position

Summary

2024 ARGOS @ Stanford02/22/2025Y3100%33%0%81.33
2024 ARGOS @ Brandeis03/22/2025N3100%0%0%103.67
2024 ARGOS Online03/22/2025N3100%0%0%124.67
2024 ARGOS @ McMaster11/17/2024Y5100%0%20%138.00
2024 ARGOS @ Columbia11/23/2024Y3100%0%0%110.67
2024 ARGOS @ Chicago11/23/2024Y6100%17%17%123.00
2024 ARGOS @ Christ's College12/14/2024N3100%0%0%119.67

Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Yihong ChenModerator Can't Neg me While in AlphaThe Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork Orange36-5
Taylor HarveyCry of the Common LoonStanford+5815
Ned TagtmeierThe Love Song of J Alfred PrufRock and Roll All Nite (and Party Every Day)WashU7815
Jason GolfinosWhere are the ACF Nationals recordings?A is for Amy Robsart who fell down the stairs8410
Isaac Kirk-Davidoffjeff mcneil #1 morningside heights fan club12 Litres of Green Tea8710
Vincent Dunumber of tang poems = 75 times number of lines in a shi = 100 times number of lines in a haikuBerkeley10210
Anwen KelleherNJ TRANSit (and anwen i guess)just one more half-dot bro10810
Sinecio Moraleshawk two ofClown Squad11310
Matt BollingerBHSU ReFantazioMusic to Help You Stop Smoking11910
Erik ChristensenI'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up Ryan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan Quizbowlers12810
William HoustonThat Feeling When Knee Surgery Is in Five DaysNotre Dame13610
Tejas RajeBHSU RebirthWho is the Colleen Hoover of the Zulus?13610
Gareth ThorlaksonSimpson Agonistes: The Crisis of DonutCommunism is Soviet power plus the yassification of the whole country13610
Mattias EhatammYou cannot go to Aarhus to see his peat-brown head / With eyes like ripening fruitas rational as the square root of two power bottoms13610
Ryan RosenbergCope is the thing with feathersWalston et. al.13710
Raymond ChenShe Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA InterfereTensei Shitara Flashcard Data Ken13810
Patrick QuionNortheast by NorthwesternClown Senpais139-5
Adrian WongThe Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork OrangeModerator Can't Neg me While in Alpha15210
Todd MaslykClown SenpaisNortheast by Northwestern15610