Question
Martin steals what he believes to be a long-lost Pieter Breughel (“BROY-gull”) painting in this author’s novel Headlong. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this British author, who wrote a play in which the actress Dotty Otley has difficulty remembering what to do with the prop of a plate of sardines while starring in a play directed by Lloyd Dallas.
ANSWER: Michael Frayn (The play is Noises Off.)
[10e] Several characters try to steal a cow creamer that people keep wrongly insisting is Dutch in The Code of the Woosters, a novel by this creator of the valet Jeeves.
ANSWER: P. G. Wodehouse (“wood-house”) [or Pelham Granville Wodehouse]
[10h] In this far less comical novel, Freddie Montgomery bludgeons a housemaid to death with a hammer when she catches him stealing a painting by a Dutch master. This novel is the first in John Banville’s Frames Trilogy.
ANSWER: The Book of Evidence
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Summary
| 2025 ACF Nationals | 04/19/2025 | Y | 21 | 13.81 | 91% | 43% | 5% |
Data
| Chicago A | British Columbia | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| NYU | Chicago B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| North Carolina B | Columbia B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Cornell A | North Carolina A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Georgia Tech | Arizona State | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Cornell B | Indiana | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Harvard | LSE | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Iowa State | MIT | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Michigan | Winona State | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Rutgers | Penn State | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| UC Berkeley B | Stanford | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| UC Berkeley A | Texas | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Toronto B | Columbia A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Johns Hopkins | UCF | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Vanderbilt | Ottawa | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Northwestern | Virginia Tech | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Virginia | RIT | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| WUSTL B | Minnesota | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Maryland | Waterloo A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Toronto A | Waterloo B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Yale | WUSTL A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |