Question

A novel in this genre that consists of anthropological records of the fictional Kesh people is Ursula K. LeGuin’s Always Coming (-5[1])Home. A novel in this genre opens with an actor playing King Lear suffering a heart (15[2])attack and involves (15[1])a Shakespeare troupe traveling around the Great (15[2])Lakes. Overly pleasant novels in this (15[1]-5[1])genre such as John Wyndham’s The Kraken Wakes are derisively labeled “cozy.” A novel in this (-5[1])genre ends by describing trout whose backs were “maps of the world in its becoming.” This genre (15[1])includes (*) Emily St. John Mandel’s Station (10[1])Eleven. In (-5[1])a 2006 novel in this (-5[1])genre, an unnamed father and (10[1])son who claim to “carry the fire”travel with only a shopping cart while evading (10[2])cannibals. (10[2])For 10 points, Cormac McCarthy’s The Road is in what sci-fi subgenre set after major catastrophes? (10[1])■END■ (0[1])

ANSWER: post-apocalyptic fiction [accept word forms like post-apocalypse; accept dystopian fiction; accept“cozy catastrophe” before “catastrophes”; prompt on science fiction; prompt on speculative fiction]
<Literature - American Literature>
= Average correct buzz position

Summary

2024 Booster Shot (Columbia)02/23/2024Y5100%40%40%88.20
2024 Booster Shot (Waterloo)02/23/2024Y3100%67%0%68.33
2024 Booster Shot (Vanderbilt)03/02/2024Y1100%100%0%37.00
2024 Booster Shot (Great Lakes)03/09/2024Y367%33%67%86.00
2024 Booster Shot (WUSTL)03/09/2024Y3100%33%33%99.00

Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Sebastian PujetWUSTL JSquidward Community College21-5
Evan SchleckGathererPrinceton3715
Jack LewisMTSUClaremont3715
Raymond ChenToronto Penguin World WarToronto Tony Jingyu Chen eats quizbowl4015
Jack RadoColumbia ARutgers4715
Athan JuritschToronto PilkOttawa4715
Moses KitakuleColumbia BLehigh A53-5
Charles HangWUSTLIowa State5315
Eshan PantNYU AYale69-5
Gabe ForrestSquidward Community CollegeWUSTL J8615
Henry LytleWUSTL CTruman State9210
Teigue KellyPenn State AStanford94-5
Graham TroyNorth CarolinaOhio99-5
William OrrYaleNYU A10410
Miles JaffeeLehigh AColumbia B11810
Liam KusalikWaterloo CaliWaterloo Bust11810
Young Fenimore LeeOhioNorth Carolina11910
Conner YamnitzWUSTL ASIUE11910
Shea RathburnColumbia CLehigh B13510
Andrew ZengStanfordPenn State A1360