zombies - 2024 PLAYTIME - Buzzpoints App

Question

In one novel, Mark Spitz struggles to fight these creatures as a member of Omega Unit. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name these creatures targeted by “sweepers” in Zone One. Max Brooks fictionalized himself as the author of a “survival guide” regarding these creatures in an “oral history” of a war involving them.

ANSWER: zombies [or skels]

[10h] This author of Zone One called Max Brooks’s World War Z his “comfort read”. This author’s first novel follows the ideological split on elevator inspection between the “Empiricist” school and the title “Intuitionists.”

ANSWER: Colson Whitehead [or Arch Colson Chipp Whitehead]

[10e] Whitehead stated that his foray into zombie fiction was partly a result of reading this author in junior high. This horror author’s novel Carrie made Whitehead want to be a writer.

ANSWER: Stephen King [or Stephen Edwin King]

<JC, Long Fiction>

Back to bonuses

Summary


2025 PLAYTIME @ CWRU	12/10/2024	Y	4	17.50	100%	50%	25%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Claremont	12/10/2024	Y	4	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Florida	12/10/2024	Y	2	30.00	100%	100%	100%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Florida	12/10/2024	Y	1	30.00	100%	100%	100%
2024 PLAYTIME @ Harvard	04/26/2025	Y	4	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2024 PLAYTIME @ JHU	10/26/2024	Y	6	13.33	100%	33%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Northwest	12/10/2024	Y	3	10.00	67%	33%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME Online	04/26/2025	Y	9	17.78	100%	56%	22%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Sheffield	12/10/2024	Y	5	16.00	100%	60%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Sheffield	12/10/2024	Y	1	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 PLAYTIME @ UBC	10/05/2024	Y	8	23.75	100%	88%	50%
2024 PLAYTIME @ Virginia Tech	07/11/2025	Y	3	26.67	100%	100%	67%
2024 PLAYTIME @ WashU	10/12/2024	Y	6	25.00	100%	100%	50%

Data


Pittsburgh	Michigan A	10	0	10	20
Ohio State A	Michigan C	0	10	10	20
Michigan B	Ohio State B	10	0	10	20
Ohio State D	Oberlin	0	0	10	10
Billy's Bastion	Project2025BC: Make Assyria Great Again	10	10	10	30
Edwin Laundrorat's Long-Lost Man Unclothès Rat Degrosses	Keeping Up With the Cardassians	10	10	10	30
Too much from you lately	Qin Shi Huang's Immortality Poison	10	10	10	30
Claremont A	UCLA A	10	0	10	20
UCSD	Claremont B	10	0	10	20
P.C.‚ Daniel‚ Michel‚ and Jason B	Art of Premature Signaling	10	0	10	20
UCSB	girl 15 whale i mean they	10	0	10	20
Belmont	Lexington	10	0	10	20
Brown	RIT	0	0	10	10
BU	Harvard	10	0	10	20
MIT	Brandeis	0	0	10	10
CWRU	George Mason A	0	0	10	10
NYU C	George Mason C	0	0	10	10
George Washington	Maryland A	0	0	10	10
Johns Hopkins A	Haverford A	10	0	10	20
Johns Hopkins B	Catholic University of America	0	0	10	10
NYU A	Maryland B	10	0	10	20
Arizona State University A	Carleton	0	0	10	10
Alberta	Arizona State University B	10	0	10	20
UW A	UW B	0	0	0	0
Notre Dame + Epic Games	2 Italians, 2 Poles, All Noles	10	0	10	20
Auburn 2026	Four Generalists in Search of a Power	0	0	10	10
Mahjonng Masters	Gruh	0	0	10	10
Mike Dukakis Tank Battalion	Monsieur Hulot's Academic Team	10	10	10	30
Trip-Hop Quizzer Tricky	Free Agents 1	10	10	10	30
evil women enjoyers	Egypt Airlines Haters	10	0	10	20
mongeese	MSJ	0	0	10	10
Illinois Orange	we need new names	0	0	10	10
Quatumvirate	Goober Gang	10	0	10	20
Imperial A.	Imperial B	0	0	10	10
Birmingham	Manchester	10	0	10	20
Sheffield A	Edinburgh	0	0	10	10
Cambridge	Sheffield B	10	0	10	20
Warwick A	LSE	10	0	10	20
Warwick B	Lancaster	0	0	10	10
Waterloo C	Guelph	10	10	10	30
Mac A	McGill B	10	0	10	20
UBC	Ottawa A	10	10	10	30
Toronto A	Waterloo B	10	0	10	20
Toronto B	Toronto Metropolitan	10	10	10	30
Toronto C	Simon Fraser	0	10	10	20
Toronto D	Toronto E	10	0	10	20
McGill A	Waterloo A	10	0	10	20
Ashurbanipal’s Drag Race	Master and Margaritaville	10	0	10	20
Even in Blacksburg There I Am	Somehow Paula Deen Returned	10	10	10	30
SIUE	WashU Charmander	10	0	10	20
WashU Squirtle	Chicago B	10	0	10	20
Illinois A	Chicago A	10	10	10	30
Illinois C	Illinois B	10	0	10	20
Iowa State	Truman State	10	10	10	30
Missouri	WashU Bulbasaur	10	10	10	30
4 quizbowl pros go Virginia on North Carolina	Adrianne Lenker 4 Nobel Lit Prize 2K65	10	10	10	30