Question
In a novel by this author, a servant frets about the perpetually undercooked salmon as gentlemen in the dining room drink a wine called Imperial Tokay. A book by this author contrasts a lunch with sole in cream sauce and a dinner with “plain gravy soup” before concluding that “one cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.” A novel by this author features a dinner party for a man who dies shortly thereafter in a riding accident in (*) India. In a novel by this author, a dinner centered on the dish Boeuf en Daube (“buhf on dobe”) concludes the opening section, “The Window.” A crowd sees a plane spelling out the word “toffee” at the start of a novel by this author, which opens by noting that its protagonist “said she would buy the flowers herself” for a dinner party attended by Peter Walsh. For 10 points, name this author of The Waves and Mrs. Dalloway. ■END■
Summary
2024 ESPN @ Stanford | 03/09/2024 | N | 2 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 119.50 |
2024 ESPN @ Chicago | 03/23/2024 | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 17% | 114.67 |
2024 ESPN @ Columbia | 03/23/2024 | Y | 7 | 100% | 29% | 0% | 90.43 |
2024 ESPN @ Duke | 03/23/2024 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 50% | 140.00 |
2024 ESPN @ Cambridge | 04/06/2024 | Y | 2 | 100% | 100% | 0% | 62.00 |
2024 ESPN @ Brown | 04/06/2024 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 139.50 |
2024 ESPN @ Online | 06/01/2024 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 106.33 |
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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Joey Goldman | A VK a Day Keeps the Doctor Away | Heat-Oppressed Brains | 62 | 15 |
Sam Foo | Eugene o'Negging | You, Me and the Big G | 62 | 15 |
Halle Friedman | 1.g4 Test Mixture | Parden the Interruption | 62 | 15 |
Derek Chen | chamPAIN and cornHELL in Columbia | Naocissus and Geoldmond by Hermandrew Hesse | 67 | 15 |
Amogh Kulkarni | The Aum-Wein Drinchard by Amogh Tutuola | JJaryland | 92 | 10 |
JinAh Kim | JinAh and Jordan from Wikiquiz | mnemonists | 93 | 10 |
John Lawrence | Noli Me Tangerine | Chicago A Minus Minus | 95 | 10 |
Nick Jensen | >:3 | BHSU | 99 | 10 |
Andrew Wang | Nobodaddy but you | Charlotte Mewing to get that chiseled farmer’s bride jawline | 99 | 10 |
Aseem Keyal | bruh | boy's jitches (ft. DMA) | 99 | 10 |
Gabe Forrest | Williams et al. | Houston Junior College | 99 | 10 |
Nicholas Tunks | Tunks et al. | Cleo: 5/7 movie | 99 | 10 |
Eshan Pant | Let's Fighting Love | protobowling for soup | 105 | 10 |
Shardul Parthasarathy | 2 days into college and I'm 3 lectures behind | Michigan | 115 | -5 |
Nermeen Rahman | Chicago B | Oh the Missouri | 115 | 10 |
Hazel Depreist-Sullivan | NJ TRANSit (and bobby i guess) | Sandmännchen im Helikopter | 115 | 10 |
David Mathew | purdoobie brothers | malcolm in the middlemarch (Purdue 1) | 121 | 10 |
Joel Miles | Riley et al. | Free-ish Agents | 121 | 10 |
Ivan Stanisavljevic | Duke | UNC A | 124 | -5 |
Adam Silverman | Labour's Lost Lovers | Clark B | 138 | 10 |
Jim Fan | UNC A | Duke | 138 | 10 |
Kevin Wang | Triple Round Robin Lovers | Clark A | 141 | 10 |
Ivvone Zhou | UNC B | UNC Hunny | 142 | 10 |
Todd Maslyk | Michigan | 2 days into college and I'm 3 lectures behind | 159 | 10 |