In a book by this author, a researcher notes that a subject can read after he pronounces the word “delicatessen” backwards. In a novella by this author, a scientist discovers a frog’s belly enlarged by a red ray from a microscope. Humanity is attacked by aggressive reptile-bird hybrids created in the wake of a chicken extinction in that book by this author, The Fatal Eggs. The title character of a novella by this author gets a job catching stray cats after an experiment in which Dr. Preobrazhensky attaches a human pituitary gland and testicles to the stray mutt Sharik. In a novel by this author, a writer destroys his book on Pontius Pilate, prompting Professor Woland to tell him that “manuscripts don’t burn.” For 10 points, name this Soviet author of Heart of a Dog and The Master and Margarita. ■END■
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| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Omer Keskin | Oxford A | LSE | 45 | 10 |
| Michael Wu | Southampton B | Warwick A | 45 | 10 |
| Kaiser Xiao | UCLA | Claremont A | 46 | 10 |
| Ryan Sun | UC Berkeley B | UCSD | 56 | 10 |
| Ned Tagtmeier | Chicago A | Illinois B | 61 | 10 |
| Andrew Wang | Illinois A | Illinois C | 64 | 10 |
| Braden Booth | Missouri | Indiana B | 64 | 10 |
| Jack Lewis | Bruin A | Georgia Tech D | 64 | -5 |
| Justin Hawkins | Indiana A | Missoui S&T | 67 | 10 |
| Jisoo Yoo | Texas A | ASU | 79 | -5 |
| Charles Hang | WashU A | Chicago B | 82 | 10 |
| Russell Nip | UBC | UW B | 82 | -5 |
| Andrew Zeng | Stanford B | Notre Dame B | 85 | -5 |
| Zayyan Mahmood | Southampton A | Warwick B | 86 | 10 |
| Elliot Cosnett | Oxford B | NYU C | 89 | 10 |
| Rachel Ezrielev | Georgetown A | Notre Dame C | 93 | 10 |
| John Luke Broussard | TAMU | Texas B | 93 | 10 |
| Neal Joshi | WashU B | Chicago C | 96 | 10 |
| Eve Fleisig | UC Berkeley A | Claremont B | 97 | 10 |
| Bryan Ugaz | ASU | Texas A | 98 | 10 |
| Christopher Sims | Northwestern A | Northwestern B | 104 | 10 |
| Kevin Flanagan | Bristol | Cambridge B | 111 | 10 |
| Truman Fillbrandt | UW A | Alberta | 112 | 10 |
| Alex Wyrick | Tennessee A | Alabama A | 112 | -5 |
| Jacob Finley | Notre Dame A | Purdue | 114 | -5 |
| Stan Melkumian | Purdue | Notre Dame A | 120 | 10 |
| Roan Dowling | Iowa | Georgetown B | 120 | 10 |
| Anna Barker | UCF B | Florida A | 122 | -5 |
| Joshua Bobin | Imperial B | Cambridge D | 123 | -5 |
| Agnijo Banerjee | Cambridge A | Cambridge C | 125 | 10 |
| Kai Madgwick | Manchester | Imperial A | 125 | 10 |
| Louis Cameron | Cambridge E | Durham | 125 | 10 |
| Benjamin Watson | Oxford C | Sheffield | 129 | 10 |
| Pranav Jothi | Georgia Tech D | Bruin A | 133 | 10 |
| Samuel Stella | Florida State A | Florida B | 140 | 10 |
| Leo Law | Florida A | UCF B | 140 | 10 |
| Clete Reinberger | Valencia A | UCF C | 140 | 10 |
| Ben Koberlein | Notre Dame B | Stanford B | 140 | 10 |
| Simarya Ahuja | UW B | UBC | 140 | 0 |
| Britton Webster | Alabama A | Tennessee A | 140 | 10 |
| Arunn Sankar | Georgia Tech B | Louisville A | 140 | 10 |
| Percy Yuen | Cambridge D | Imperial B | 140 | 10 |