This author’s daughter wrote the 2014 novel The Fall of Saints. A suicidal woman receives an invitation signed by Satan to choose “seven experts in theft and robbery” in a novel that this author wrote on toilet paper, Devil on the Cross. In a novel by this author, a beggar and protestor jointly grift as a sorcerer who manages to heal the voice of The Ruler, dictator of the fictional nation of (*) Aburiria. A character breaks his left arm in a race on the day of Uhuru in a novel by this author in which General R. fills in when Mugo refuses to give a speech. The town of Ilmorog appears in two sequential novels whose switch in languages is explained in this author’s essay Decolonising the Mind. For 10 points, name this Gikuyu-language author of Wizard of the Crow and A Grain of Wheat. ■END■
| 2024 PLAYTIME @ Harvard | 04/26/2025 | N | 4 | 100% | 50% | 0% | 88.25 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME Online | 04/26/2025 | N | 9 | 100% | 78% | 0% | 56.89 |
| 2024 PLAYTIME @ Virginia Tech | 07/11/2025 | N | 3 | 100% | 67% | 0% | 52.00 |
| 2024 PLAYTIME @ UBC | 10/05/2024 | Y | 8 | 100% | 50% | 25% | 81.75 |
| 2024 PLAYTIME @ WashU | 10/12/2024 | Y | 6 | 100% | 50% | 17% | 95.83 |
| 2024 PLAYTIME @ JHU | 10/26/2024 | Y | 7 | 43% | 29% | 43% | 77.67 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ Florida | 12/10/2024 | N | 1 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 127.00 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ Florida | 12/10/2024 | N | 2 | 100% | 50% | 50% | 96.00 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ Northwest | 12/10/2024 | N | 4 | 100% | 50% | 0% | 84.75 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ Claremont | 12/10/2024 | N | 4 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 130.50 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ Sheffield | 12/10/2024 | N | 5 | 60% | 0% | 60% | 135.00 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ Sheffield | 12/10/2024 | N | 1 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 124.00 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ CWRU | 12/10/2024 | N | 4 | 75% | 50% | 25% | 75.67 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arjun Kala | Illinois B | WashU Bulbasaur | 37 | 15 |
| Micah Colman | Waterloo B | Guelph | 41 | 15 |
| Eshan Pant | NYU A | CWRU | 41 | 15 |
| Benjamin Chapman | Toronto B | Toronto E | 41 | 15 |
| Patrick Torre | Maryland A | NYU B | 47 | 15 |
| Nick Edwards | McGill A | Mac A | 50 | 15 |
| Charlotte Bauer | McGill B | Waterloo A | 51 | -5 |
| Parth Jagtap | Toronto A | Waterloo C | 53 | 15 |
| Michael Hunding | Illinois A | Chicago A | 56 | 15 |
| Guy Indorante | Iowa State | Missouri | 69 | 15 |
| Cole Hartung | Georgetown | Johns Hopkins B | 72 | -5 |
| Raymond Chen | Toronto C | UBC | 74 | 10 |
| Ethan Furman | Haverford A | NYU C | 92 | -5 |
| Ryan Happel | SIUE | Chicago B | 92 | -5 |
| Jesse Chusing | Ottawa A | Simon Fraser | 105 | 10 |
| Amir Dolansky | Toronto D | Toronto Metropolitan | 110 | -5 |
| Fred Garvey | Truman State | WashU Charmander | 127 | 10 |
| Emma Victoria Byron | Rutgers | George Mason A | 130 | -5 |
| Patrick Minsker | Illinois C | WashU Squirtle | 141 | 10 |
| Jared He | Waterloo A | McGill B | 145 | 10 |
| Matthew Bucek | George Mason A | Rutgers | 145 | 0 |
| Audrey Cho | Haverford B | George Washington | 145 | 0 |
| Gus Vanskike | Maryland B | George Mason C | 145 | 10 |
| Chansol Park | NYU C | Haverford A | 145 | 0 |
| Ishan Joshi | Toronto Metropolitan | Toronto D | 145 | 10 |
| Samarth Ram | Chicago B | SIUE | 145 | 10 |