Question
The young protagonist is terrified by a stage version of one of this author’s novels at the start of a later novel, causing her adoptive mother to slap Flora for bringing her. This author is killed off in a chapter titled “[This author] is Dead!” from a novel that fictionalizes the Tichborne case. A novel by this author inspired a novel whose protagonist visits a Tennessee aquarium with his friend Maggot. Each entry in Ali Smith’s Seasonal Quartet opens with an homage to this author. A novel by this author is referenced in the first line of (*) The Catcher in the Rye and inspired a novel about the Appalachian-born Damon Fields, which won the 2023 Pulitzer for Barbara Kingsolver. Peter Carey’s novel Jack Maggs is based on an escaped convict created by this author who becomes an orphaned boy’s benefactor. For 10 points, what author created Abel Magwitch in Great Expectations? ■END■
Summary
2024 ESPN @ Stanford | 03/09/2024 | N | 2 | 100% | 100% | 0% | 86.50 |
2024 ESPN @ Chicago | 03/23/2024 | Y | 6 | 100% | 33% | 50% | 120.17 |
2024 ESPN @ Columbia | 03/23/2024 | Y | 6 | 100% | 33% | 17% | 109.33 |
2024 ESPN @ Duke | 03/23/2024 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 125.50 |
2024 ESPN @ Cambridge | 04/06/2024 | Y | 2 | 100% | 100% | 0% | 82.50 |
2024 ESPN @ Brown | 04/06/2024 | Y | 3 | 100% | 33% | 0% | 106.67 |
2024 ESPN @ Online | 06/01/2024 | Y | 3 | 100% | 33% | 0% | 93.33 |
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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Tris Cole | World's Fair Wiggle Walk | Free-ish Agents | 52 | 15 |
Aseem Keyal | bruh | mnemonists | 54 | 15 |
Adam Silverman | Labour's Lost Lovers | Clark B | 65 | 15 |
Matt Jackson | Chicago A Minus Minus | purdoobie brothers | 66 | 15 |
Mitch McCullar | Nobodaddy but you | Chicago B | 77 | -5 |
Jordan Brownstein | JinAh and Jordan from Wikiquiz | Sandmännchen im Helikopter | 77 | -5 |
Parth Jagtap | A VK a Day Keeps the Doctor Away | Eugene o'Negging | 81 | 15 |
Sam Moore | Heat-Oppressed Brains | You, Me and the Big G | 84 | 15 |
John Lawrence | Noli Me Tangerine | malcolm in the middlemarch (Purdue 1) | 84 | 15 |
Richard Niu | The Aum-Wein Drinchard by Amogh Tutuola | boy's jitches (ft. DMA) | 84 | 15 |
Juliet Mayer | Triple Round Robin Lovers | Clark A | 106 | 10 |
Eshan Pant | Let's Fighting Love | JJaryland | 107 | 10 |
Chinmay Kansara | BHSU | Michigan | 108 | -5 |
Tracy Mirkin | Riley et al. | Tunks et al. | 114 | 10 |
Danny Peelen | The Present King of James is Bald | Williams et al. | 114 | 10 |
Dan Ni | >:3 | 2 days into college and I'm 3 lectures behind | 118 | -5 |
Benjamin McAvoy-Bickford | UNC A | UNC Hunny | 118 | 10 |
Taylor Harvey | Charlotte Mewing to get that chiseled farmer’s bride jawline | Oh the Missouri | 120 | 10 |
Halle Friedman | 1.g4 Test Mixture | chamPAIN and cornHELL in Columbia | 125 | 10 |
Ashish Subramanian | Duke | UNC B | 133 | 10 |
Darren Petrosino | Parden the Interruption | protobowling for soup | 135 | 10 |
Jeffrey Fung | Jeffrey and Dahmers | Jason Lovers | 149 | 10 |
Todd Maslyk | Michigan | BHSU | 150 | 10 |
Shardul Parthasarathy | 2 days into college and I'm 3 lectures behind | >:3 | 150 | 10 |
Henry Cafaro | Chicago B | Nobodaddy but you | 151 | 10 |
Arya Karthik | Sandmännchen im Helikopter | JinAh and Jordan from Wikiquiz | 151 | 10 |