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 | Y | 4 | 100% | 50% | 0% | 88.25 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME Online | 04/26/2025 | Y | 9 | 100% | 78% | 0% | 56.89 |
| 2024 PLAYTIME @ Virginia Tech | 07/11/2025 | Y | 3 | 100% | 67% | 0% | 52.00 |
| 2024 PLAYTIME @ UBC | 10/05/2024 | N | 8 | 100% | 50% | 25% | 81.75 |
| 2024 PLAYTIME @ WashU | 10/12/2024 | N | 6 | 100% | 50% | 17% | 95.83 |
| 2024 PLAYTIME @ JHU | 10/26/2024 | N | 7 | 43% | 29% | 43% | 77.67 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ Florida | 12/10/2024 | Y | 1 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 127.00 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ Sheffield | 12/10/2024 | Y | 5 | 60% | 0% | 60% | 135.00 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ Sheffield | 12/10/2024 | Y | 1 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 124.00 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ Florida | 12/10/2024 | Y | 2 | 100% | 50% | 50% | 96.00 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ Claremont | 12/10/2024 | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 130.50 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ Northwest | 12/10/2024 | Y | 4 | 100% | 50% | 0% | 84.75 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ CWRU | 12/10/2024 | Y | 4 | 75% | 50% | 25% | 75.67 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stan | Gruh | Illinois Orange | 21 | 15 |
| Sam Matson | Ashurbanipal’s Drag Race | Adrianne Lenker 4 Nobel Lit Prize 2K65 | 37 | 15 |
| Tracy Mirkin | Edwin Laundrorat's Long-Lost Man Unclothès Rat Degrosses | Project2025BC: Make Assyria Great Again | 38 | -5 |
| Ariel Faeder | Pittsburgh | Ohio State A | 41 | 15 |
| Rohan Navaneetha | Ohio State D | Michigan B | 41 | 15 |
| Bryan Ugaz | Arizona State University A | UW B | 41 | 15 |
| Padraig Finan | Washington Connections | Arizona State University B | 41 | 15 |
| Pradyumna Krishna | MSJ | Notre Dame + Epic Games | 41 | 15 |
| Eric Mukherjee | Mike Dukakis Tank Battalion | Mahjonng Masters | 41 | 15 |
| Hazel DePreist-Sullivan | evil women enjoyers | Auburn 2026 | 41 | 15 |
| Sheehan Banka | Quatumvirate | Four Generalists in Search of a Power | 41 | 15 |
| Ryan Smith | mongeese | Goober Gang | 41 | 15 |
| Shishir Bharadwaj | Lexington | BU | 41 | 15 |
| Jim Fan | Master and Margaritaville | Even in Blacksburg There I Am | 47 | 15 |
| Yrwin Batan | MIT | Brown | 56 | 15 |
| Thomas Tibbetts | Too much from you lately | Billy's Bastion | 62 | 15 |
| Nathaniel Hull | Egypt Airlines Haters | Trip-Hop Quizzer Tricky | 70 | 15 |
| Grant Peet | 4 quizbowl pros go Virginia on North Carolina | Somehow Paula Deen Returned | 72 | 10 |
| Daniel Hothem | Monsieur Hulot's Academic Team | Free Agents 1 | 89 | 10 |
| Yashwanth Bajji | Michigan A | Michigan C | 98 | -5 |
| Lovel Hearn | Edinburgh | Sheffield C | 105 | -5 |
| Jason Cheng | P.C.‚ Daniel‚ Michel‚ and Jason B | UCLA A | 118 | 10 |
| Gregory Zeldovich | Belmont | Harvard | 123 | 10 |
| Kai Madgwick | Manchester | Warwick A | 124 | 10 |
| Vivian Malouf | girl 15 whale i mean they | Claremont B | 127 | 10 |
| Aaron Marchand | Carleton | UW A | 127 | 10 |
| Arav Kaushik | we need new names | 2 Italians, 2 Poles, All Noles | 127 | 10 |
| Adsayan Ganesh | Warwick B | Imperial A | 127 | -5 |
| Jacob Price | Sheffield A | Birmingham | 127 | 10 |
| Andre Wong | LSE | Sheffield B | 127 | -5 |
| Cole Hennessy | Qin Shi Huang's Immortality Poison | Keeping Up With the Cardassians | 127 | 10 |
| Anne Fjeld | Alberta | South Dakota School of Mines | 130 | 10 |
| Hayden Prather | Project2025BC: Make Assyria Great Again | Edwin Laundrorat's Long-Lost Man Unclothès Rat Degrosses | 130 | 10 |
| Akshay Seetharam | Claremont A | Art of Premature Signaling | 133 | 10 |
| Brendan Bethlehem | Cambridge | Lancaster | 133 | 10 |
| Kayla Drajpuch | Brandeis | RIT | 133 | 10 |
| Andrew Nucci | UCLA B | UCSD | 144 | 10 |
| Matthew Lam | Ohio State B | Ohio State C | 145 | 10 |
| Gus Redding | Imperial A | Warwick B | 145 | 0 |
| Andrew Fisher | Sheffield B | LSE | 145 | 10 |