Question
One of this author’s characters spends decades living in an underground burrow of tunnels of his own creation, which catches fire one night when struck by lightning. In a novel by this author, Jack offers to clean his girlfriend’s apartment as an excuse to steal the manuscripts she’s been preparing for a blackmailer in a pinstripe suit. In a novel-within-a-novel by this author, the protagonist accidentally kills his sick wife by forcing her to undergo chemically induced convulsion therapy in Switzerland. This novelist created the (*) Swedish immigrant Håkan Söderström (“HO-kahn SUH-der-strum”), who searches for his brother in the American West. In a novel by this author, Ida Partenza is hired to ghostwrite the autobiography of the financier Andrew Bevel, who made a fortune shorting the stock market in the 1929 crash. For 10 points, name this Argentinian-American author of In the Distance who won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for his novel Trust. ■END■
Summary
2024 Chicago Open | 07/28/2024 | Y | 13 | 54% | 0% | 23% | 122.43 |
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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Naveed Chowdhury | Lisan al-Quib | A Nervy Liberal Nanny Hence | 56 | -5 |
Halle Friedman | The Oldest Men in the World | There are buzzable clues everywhere for those with eyes to see | 56 | -5 |
Henry Goff | A Nervy Liberal Nanny Hence | Lisan al-Quib | 88 | 10 |
Taylor Harvey | sticking out your guyot for the ridge push; you're so seafloor spread, you're so fracture zone | First Cause, First Cause, make me young! | 103 | 10 |
Henry Atkins | The Empire Bikes Back | Les Missourables | 117 | 10 |
Rahul Keyal | Lying on a Mattress at Lou’s Apartment in Pilsen, Chicago | The Jeam Team | 126 | 10 |
Jim Fan | Mindgoblin of Little Hobbes | The Dyatlov Passement incident | 132 | -5 |
Eve Fleisig | it's the great pumpkinification objection, charlie brown | Berkeley Mafia and the Chicago Boy | 134 | 10 |
Nick Jensen | LMM's LLM MLM | We Need New Names | 139 | 10 |
Eric Bobrow | Read slowly: A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A Read quickly: A | Punished "Venom" BHSU | 150 | 0 |
Akshar Goyal | SAYYID QUTB, DRIVING THE LONGEST CAR YOU’VE EVER SEEN THROUGH TAHRIR SQUARE | Are You There, Chat? It's Me, Margaret | 150 | 0 |
Matt Lafer | when you look this good, you don’t have to know anything | Charlotte's Moderately Successful Team | 150 | 0 |
William Golden | The Dyatlov Passement incident | Mindgoblin of Little Hobbes | 150 | 10 |
Kai Smith | Punished "Venom" BHSU | Read slowly: A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A Read quickly: A | 150 | 0 |
Mitch McCullar | Are You There, Chat? It's Me, Margaret | SAYYID QUTB, DRIVING THE LONGEST CAR YOU’VE EVER SEEN THROUGH TAHRIR SQUARE | 150 | 0 |
Daniel Ma | There are buzzable clues everywhere for those with eyes to see | The Oldest Men in the World | 150 | 0 |
Colin Stewart | var merchants | I’ll take a quiet 10 / A handshake of CO (Chicago Open) | 150 | 0 |
Ethan Ashbrook | Galvanized Square Steen and Eco-Friendly Wood Vermeer | genAI this, genAI that, have you found your 真爱 yet | 150 | 0 |
Emmett Laurie | I’ll take a quiet 10 / A handshake of CO (Chicago Open) | var merchants | 150 | 0 |
Sinecio Morales | Charlotte's Moderately Successful Team | when you look this good, you don’t have to know anything | 150 | 0 |