Question
In a story by this author, the teenage narrator discusses the film “The Day After” with an older woman with whom he has an affair while she teaches at his high school. Five sections labeled for the number of years after a breakup divide a story by this author. The instruction to take an out-of-town girl for dinner was included in a story by this author presented as dating advice. This author wrote a story in which a Kenyan man marries a girl who sends her ex-boyfriend (*) emails of fifty mistresses, titled “The Cheater’s Guide to Love.” This author of the collections Drown and This is How You Lose Her wrote a novel in which the fukú curse affects an overweight Rutgers graduate. For 10 points, name this Dominican-born author whose recurring character Yunior narrates The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. ■END■
Summary
2024 Penn Bowl UNC | 10/26/2024 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 88.67 |
2024 Penn Bowl Florida | 10/26/2024 | Y | 2 | 100% | 50% | 0% | 101.50 |
2024 Penn Bowl Harvard | 10/26/2024 | Y | 4 | 75% | 25% | 0% | 93.67 |
2024 Penn Bowl UK | 10/26/2024 | Y | 5 | 100% | 20% | 20% | 109.40 |
2024 Penn Bowl Berkeley | 11/02/2024 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 50% | 115.50 |
2024 Penn Bowl Mainsite | 11/02/2024 | Y | 3 | 100% | 33% | 33% | 93.33 |
2024 Penn Bowl CWRU | 11/02/2024 | Y | 4 | 75% | 0% | 50% | 126.67 |
2024 Penn Bowl Chicago | 11/02/2024 | Y | 8 | 75% | 38% | 13% | 85.17 |
2024 Penn Bowl Texas | 11/02/2024 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 119.00 |
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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Eshan Pant | NYU A | JHU A | 32 | 15 |
Arjun Kala | Illinois B | Notre Dame C | 48 | 15 |
Yashwanth Bajji | Michigan A | Ohio State C | 59 | -5 |
Omer Keskin | Say it | Gressenheller A | 68 | 15 |
Joel Miles | Minnesota | Chicago A | 69 | 15 |
Thomas Tibbetts | UCF | UF B | 69 | 15 |
Joy An | Harvard A | BU | 69 | 15 |
Charles Hang | WUSTL | Notre Dame B | 74 | 15 |
Jim Fan | UNC B | UNC C | 74 | 10 |
Anuttam Ramji | Berkeley B | Berkeley A | 88 | -5 |
Andre Wong | LSE | Four Times I Have Despised My Soul | 89 | -5 |
Michal Gerasimiuk | Stanford | Berkeley C | 90 | 10 |
Ariel Faeder | Pittsburgh | Ohio State A | 96 | 10 |
Coby Tran | Chicago B | Illinois A | 96 | 10 |
Logan Mathis | SIUE | Notre Dame A | 96 | -5 |
William Orr | Yale A | MIT | 96 | 10 |
Noah Chin | Virginia Tech A | RIT A | 96 | 10 |
Vincent Du | UNC A | Duke A | 96 | 10 |
Justin Hawkins | Indiana A | Northwestern B | 102 | 10 |
Gus Vanskike | Maryland | NYU B | 106 | 10 |
Adam Jones | 3HK1MM | See it | 108 | 10 |
Ben Russel Jones | Four Times I Have Despised My Soul | LSE | 109 | 10 |
William Golden | Houston | TAMU | 112 | 10 |
Kayla Drajpuch | Brandeis | Harvard B | 116 | 10 |
Moses Kitakule | Columbia | Princeton | 117 | -5 |
Andrei Hui | Sorted | The Crying of Team 49 | 120 | 10 |
Sharath Narayan | Northwestern A | Indiana B | 122 | 10 |
Jack Lenga | Carnegie Mellon | Michigan B | 125 | -5 |
Athena Shadden | Texas A | Texas B | 126 | 10 |
Khanh Nguyen | UF A | UF C | 134 | 10 |
Eve Fleisig | Berkeley A | Berkeley B | 141 | 10 |
Kevin Zheng | Michigan B | Carnegie Mellon | 142 | 10 |
Rohan Navaneetha Raj | Ohio State C | Michigan A | 142 | 10 |
Ethan Newman | Michigan State | Ohio State B | 142 | 0 |
Matthew Lam | Ohio State B | Michigan State | 142 | 0 |
Eric Yang | Purdue | Illinois C | 142 | 0 |
David Zhang | Illinois C | Purdue | 142 | 0 |
Andres Cordoba | Yale B | Tufts | 142 | 0 |
Dylan Tanouye | Tufts | Yale B | 142 | 0 |
Jake Grodner | Princeton | Columbia | 142 | 10 |
Ved Muthuswamy | Oxford School for Quizness | Limp Chriskit | 142 | 10 |