Question
When asked by a clergyman why he never seeks pleasure in town on Sundays, a character in this novel thinks, “It is because a fellow is more afraid of the trouble he might have than he ever is of the trouble he’s already got.” A character in this novel tells his foster mother that her husband is “at a dance” but “not dancing” after bludgeoning him with a chair. Another character in this novel kidnaps his own grandson, sends him to an orphanage, and then takes a job as a janitor at the orphanage to watch him. This novel opens from the perspective of a woman who walks from Alabama for four weeks to find the man who impregnated her, who now uses the alias Joe Brown. A character in this novel is castrated by Percy Grimm after murdering Joanna Burden. For 10 points, multiracial Joe Christmas is the protagonist of what William Faulkner novel? ■END■
Summary
2025 ACF Nationals | 04/19/2025 | Y | 22 | 82% | 0% | 14% | 132.11 |
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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Arjun Kala | Illinois B | Iowa State | 65 | 10 |
Michael Hunding | Illinois A | NYU | 89 | 10 |
Mitch McCullar | Penn State | Virginia | 102 | 10 |
Jakob Myers | Indiana | MIT | 124 | 10 |
Ned Tagtmeier | Chicago A | Columbia A | 126 | 10 |
Noah Chin | Virginia Tech | Ohio State | 126 | 10 |
Tiffany Zhou | Florida | WUSTL A | 126 | 10 |
Maude-Sophie Lockman | Ottawa | Harvard | 126 | -5 |
Kevin Wang | Georgia Tech | Texas | 138 | 10 |
Sharath Narayan | Northwestern | Georgia State | 140 | 10 |
Alvin Guo | Chicago B | Toronto C | 143 | -5 |
Nathaniel Hull | UC Berkeley A | North Carolina B | 144 | 10 |
Mattias Ehatamm | Waterloo A | Vanderbilt | 146 | 10 |
Michał Gerasimiuk | Stanford | Johns Hopkins | 146 | 10 |
John John Groger | WUSTL B | British Columbia | 149 | 10 |
Wenying Wu | Toronto B | Michigan | 149 | 10 |
Ryan Sun | UC Berkeley B | UCF | 149 | 10 |
Joel Miles | Minnesota | Winona State | 149 | 10 |
Andy Huff | LSE | Maryland | 151 | -5 |
Ben Wismath | Toronto C | Chicago B | 155 | 10 |
Caleb Ott | Waterloo B | Columbia B | 155 | 0 |
Joy An | Harvard | Ottawa | 155 | 0 |
Tony Chen | Toronto A | Arizona State | 155 | 0 |
Aiden Dartley | Rutgers | RIT | 155 | 0 |
Cade Reinberger | RIT | Rutgers | 155 | 0 |
Bryan Ugaz | Arizona State | Toronto A | 155 | 0 |
Olin Bose | Columbia B | Waterloo B | 155 | 0 |
Gus Vanskike | Maryland | LSE | 155 | 10 |