Question

A member of this family used his former brother-in-law as the inspiration for an unscrupulous theater actor who denounces his half-African mistress in the novel Mephisto. Another member of this family obtained an English passport through a marriage of convenience with W.H. Auden. The author of Man of Straw was from this family, as was an (-5[1])author who depicted a character who hallucinates two (*) witches while caught skiing in a (10[1])blizzard. In that novel by a member of this family, the protagonist uses French to flirt with a (10[1])Russian countess on Walpurgis (10[1])Night. A member of (10[1])this family wrote a novel in which the democrat Settembrini and the Jesuit Naphta [naf-tuh] duel during Hans Castorp’s (10[1])stay in a (10[2])Swiss sanatorium. For 10 points, a member of what literary family wrote The Magic Mountain? ■END■

ANSWER: Mann [accept Thomas Mann, Heinrich Mann, Klaus Mann, or Erika Mann]
<Literature - European Literature>
= Average correct buzz position

Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Jack LewisMTSUClaremont56-5
Guy IndoranteIowa StateWUSTL7010
Kevin ParkClaremontMTSU8810
Andrew ZengStanfordPenn State A9210
Gabe ForrestSquidward Community CollegeWUSTL J9610
Logan MathisSIUEWUSTL A11510
Jonathan ShaufNorth CarolinaOhio11810
Fred GarveyTruman StateWUSTL C11810

Summary

2024 Booster Shot (Columbia)02/23/2024N580%0%20%98.50
2024 Booster Shot (Waterloo)02/23/2024N3100%0%0%104.33
2024 Booster Shot (Vanderbilt)03/02/2024Y1100%0%100%88.00
2024 Booster Shot (Great Lakes)03/09/2024Y3100%0%0%93.33
2024 Booster Shot (WUSTL)03/09/2024Y3100%0%0%109.67