Question
A story by this author centers on the monk Lorenzo, who is ostracized for having a child with an umbrella maker’s daughter, but is revealed to be a woman after saving the child from a burning building. In a story by this author of “The Death of a Disciple,” the narrator reflects that he sees a fire every time he returns to the capital after his arsonist brother-in-law is hit by a train. This author created a character who binds one of his apprentices with chains and attacks another with a horned owl to study their pained expressions. In that story by this author, an artist watches as his daughter and her pet monkey are burned alive in a carriage by Lord Horikawa to inspire the title artwork. For 10 points, what author of the stories “Cogwheels” and “Hell Screen” names a Japanese literary prize? ■END■
Summary
California | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 54.33 |
Florida | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 128.00 |
Lower Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 113.00 |
Midwest | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 83% | 0% | 17% | 100.20 |
North | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 134.33 |
Northeast | 2025-02-01 | Y | 5 | 80% | 0% | 0% | 80.25 |
Pacific Northwest | 2025-02-01 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 140.00 |
South Central | 2025-02-01 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 107.00 |
Southeast | 2025-02-01 | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 106.50 |
UK | 2025-02-01 | Y | 10 | 90% | 0% | 0% | 105.78 |
Upper Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | Y | 7 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 106.00 |
Upstate NY | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 67% | 0% | 0% | 145.00 |
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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Eve Fleisig | UC Berkeley A | UCSD | 14 | 10 |
Kevin Park | Claremont A | UC Berkeley B | 17 | 10 |
Arya Karthik | Oxford A | Cambridge B | 19 | 10 |
Jonathan Schnipper | Brandeis A | Tufts A | 28 | 10 |
William Orr | Yale A | Rutgers A | 28 | 10 |
Ian McDowell | Cambridge C | Manchester | 48 | 10 |
Ned Tagtmeier | Chicago A | WashU B | 67 | 10 |
Noah Chin | Virginia Tech A | Liberty A | 72 | 10 |
Chris Yoo | William & Mary | Liberty B | 85 | 10 |
Justin Hawkins | Indiana A | Illinois B | 85 | 10 |
Sinecio Morales | Johns Hopkins A | NYU B | 88 | 10 |
Kevin Wang | Georgia Tech C | Georgia Tech D | 92 | 10 |
Bryan Ugaz | ASU | TAMU | 94 | 10 |
Nathan Sheffield | MIT A | Harvard B | 96 | 10 |
Richard Niu | Cornell B | Haverford A | 96 | 10 |
Andrew Wang | Illinois A | Missoui S&T | 97 | -5 |
Braden Booth | Missouri | Chicago D | 97 | 10 |
Arjun Nageswaran | Harvard A | Dartmouth A | 97 | 10 |
Jack Lewis | Bruin A | Tennessee A | 97 | 10 |
Alex Jiang | Brown A | UMass Boston | 100 | 10 |
Anna Barker | UCF B | Florida B | 106 | 10 |
Seraphina Charlotte Foo | Cambridge A | NYU C | 110 | 10 |
Jay Kim | Chicago B | Chicago C | 113 | 10 |
Andre Wong | LSE | Cambridge D | 113 | 10 |
Daniel Kim | Maryland B | George Washington B | 113 | 10 |
Zayyan Mahmood | Southampton A | Sheffield | 114 | 10 |
Beckett Gilmore | Louisville A | Georgia Tech B | 116 | 10 |
Antoni Kluzowski | Warwick A | Durham | 116 | 10 |
Ivan Stanisavljevic | Duke | UNC C | 119 | 10 |
Morgan Bozeman | Minnesota B | Winona State | 119 | 10 |
Jisoo Yoo | Texas A | Texas B | 120 | 10 |
Michael Zhou | Georgia Tech A | Vanderbilt A | 121 | 10 |
Jerry Vinokurov | John Jay College | Haverford B | 131 | 10 |
Kaiser Xiao | UCLA | Claremont B | 132 | 10 |
Clete Reinberger | Valencia A | Florida State A | 138 | 10 |
Russell Nip | UBC | Alberta | 138 | 10 |
Nermeen Rahman | Indiana B | Illinois C | 139 | 10 |
Guy Indorante | Iowa State | Carleton | 139 | 10 |
Tiffany Zhou | Florida A | UCF C | 140 | 10 |
Jack Rado | Columbia B | Maryland A | 141 | 10 |
Truman Fillbrandt | UW A | UW B | 142 | 10 |
Kevin Flanagan | Bristol | Oxford C | 142 | 10 |
Joseph Chambers | Virginia A | Liberty C | 144 | 10 |
Jeffrey Austin | UNC D | Wake Forest | 145 | 10 |
Jacob Harl | Missoui S&T | Illinois A | 145 | 0 |
Nithin Mendu | Wisconsin A | Wisconsin B | 145 | 10 |
Jaehyun Park | BU | Brandeis B | 145 | 0 |
Eliza Dean | Oxford B | Southampton B | 145 | 10 |
Oscar O'Flanagan | Imperial A | Cambridge E | 145 | 0 |
Louis Cameron | Cambridge E | Imperial A | 145 | 0 |
Josh Howarth | Warwick B | Imperial B | 145 | 10 |
Anirudh Bharadwaj | Penn A | Penn B | 145 | 10 |
Kevin Peng | Cornell C | Binghamton A | 145 | 0 |
Owen Linder | Binghamton A | Cornell C | 145 | 0 |
Tom Scheri | RIT B | ESF A | 145 | 0 |
Gregory Stone | ESF A | RIT B | 145 | 10 |
Cade Reinberger | RIT A | Cornell D | 145 | 10 |