Question
This character receives melodramatic letters from an older man whose wife says that she will “never desert him” and who often claims “something will turn up.” A boat-turned-house in which this character briefly stays is changed from upright to upside-down in illustrations by Phiz. This character helps keep donkeys off the lawn of his aunt, whose disappointment at his gender leads her to call him “Trotwood.” This character befriends the indebted (*) Micawbers after being sent to work bottling wine by his abusive stepfather, Mr. Murdstone. This character, who begins by wondering “Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life,”becomes a writer after exposing the fraud of Uriah Heep. For 10 points, name this title narrator of a semi-autobiographical novel by Charles Dickens. ■END■
Summary
2024 Booster Shot (Columbia) | 02/23/2024 | Y | 6 | 83% | 0% | 33% | 105.60 |
2024 Booster Shot (Waterloo) | 02/23/2024 | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 118.00 |
2024 Booster Shot (Vanderbilt) | 03/02/2024 | Y | 4 | 75% | 0% | 0% | 119.33 |
2024 Booster Shot (Great Lakes) | 03/09/2024 | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 50% | 103.83 |
2024 Booster Shot (WUSTL) | 03/09/2024 | Y | 3 | 100% | 67% | 0% | 82.33 |
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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Yashwanth Bajji | Michigan A | Ohio | 33 | -5 |
William Orr | Yale | NYU B | 59 | -5 |
Teigue Kelly | Penn State A | Michigan B | 59 | -5 |
Jack Rado | Columbia A | NYU A | 61 | -5 |
Gabe Forrest | Squidward Community College | WUSTL C | 65 | 15 |
Guy Indorante | Iowa State | Iowa | 68 | -5 |
Sebastian Pujet | WUSTL J | WUSTL A | 70 | 15 |
Moses Kitakule | Columbia B | NYU C | 71 | 10 |
Sam Macchi | Vassar | North Carolina | 76 | 10 |
Benjamin Kramer | Case Western | WUSTL | 78 | 10 |
Jake Grodner | Princeton | Lehigh A | 82 | 10 |
Andrew Zeng | Stanford | Ohio State | 86 | 10 |
Kevin Park | Claremont | Vanderbilt A | 102 | 10 |
Fred Garvey | Truman State | SIUE | 112 | 10 |
Tony Chen | Toronto Tony Jingyu Chen eats quizbowl | Toronto cDNA | 113 | 10 |
Ishan Joshi | Ottawa | Waterloo Cali | 116 | 10 |
Andre Wong | Columbia C | Rutgers | 119 | 10 |
Caleb Ott | Waterloo Bust | Toronto Penguin World War | 120 | 10 |
Gareth Thorlakson | Toronto Sprout | Toronto Pilk | 123 | 10 |
Kevin Zheng | Michigan B | Penn State A | 127 | 10 |
Zaid Asif | NYU B | Yale | 128 | 0 |
Jacob Hardin-Bernhardt | NYU A | Columbia A | 128 | 10 |
Will Hollister | Lehigh B | Bard | 128 | 10 |
Roan Dowling | Iowa | Iowa State | 128 | 10 |
Pranav Sivaram | Ohio | Michigan A | 128 | 10 |
Yuxuan Lu | Vanderbilt B | Belmont | 128 | 10 |
Jeremy Cummings | WUSTL | Georgia Tech A | 128 | 10 |
Darshan Krishnamswamy | Georgia Tech C | Georgia Tech B | 128 | 0 |
Monish Jampala | Georgia Tech A | WUSTL | 128 | 0 |