Question
In a novel from this country, a writer first encounters the lost novel The Labyrinth of Inhumanity after sleeping with an older acclaimed author he calls the “Spider-Mother.” That novel from this country was influenced by Roberto Bolaño, draws from the Yambo Ouologuem (“wo-lo-GHEM”) plagiarism scandal, and is titled The Most Secret Memory of Men. In a novel from this country, a woman undergoes forty days of solitude after her polygamous husband Modou dies from a heart attack. An author from this country wrote an epistolary novel in which Ramatoulaye (“rah-mah-too-LYE”) writes to her friend Aissatou (“eye-sah-TOO”) after becoming widowed; that novel is So Long a Letter. In 1960, the Négritude poet of “Black Woman” became this country’s first president. For 10 points, name this home country of Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, Mariama Bâ, and Leopold Senghor. ■END■
Summary
California | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 87.00 |
Great Lakes | 2025-02-01 | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 20% | 123.40 |
Lower Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 50% | 0% | 0% | 110.67 |
Midwest | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 17% | 106.83 |
North | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 108.00 |
Overflow | 2025-02-01 | Y | 5 | 80% | 0% | 40% | 111.00 |
Pacific Northwest | 2025-02-01 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 99.00 |
South Central | 2025-02-01 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 50% | 95.00 |
Southeast | 2025-02-01 | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 101.25 |
UK | 2025-02-01 | Y | 10 | 90% | 0% | 10% | 107.11 |
Upper Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 103.88 |
Upstate NY | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 67% | 0% | 0% | 133.00 |
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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Omer Keskin | Oxford A | Warwick B | 32 | 10 |
Jack Lenga | Carnegie Mellon B | Michigan D | 37 | -5 |
Richard Niu | Cornell B | Columbia C | 52 | 10 |
Seraphina Charlotte Foo | Cambridge A | Oxford B | 53 | 10 |
Jaik Havlick | ASU | Texas B | 57 | 10 |
Michał Gerasimiuk | Stanford B | Georgetown A | 70 | -5 |
Justin Hawkins | Indiana A | Illinois A | 71 | -5 |
Andrew Wang | Illinois A | Indiana A | 76 | 10 |
Anuttam Ramji | UC Berkeley B | UCSD | 85 | 10 |
Jack Lewis | Bruin A | Georgia Tech B | 85 | 10 |
Kaiser Xiao | UCLA | Claremont A | 87 | 10 |
Russell Nip | UBC | UW B | 87 | 10 |
Samarth Ram | Chicago C | Missouri | 88 | 10 |
Kevin Wang | Georgia Tech C | Alabama A | 88 | 10 |
Sinecio Morales | Johns Hopkins A | Rutgers A | 88 | 10 |
Eve Fleisig | UC Berkeley A | Claremont B | 89 | 10 |
Guy Indorante | Iowa State | Winona State | 91 | 10 |
Jisoo Yoo | Texas A | TAMU | 96 | -5 |
Eva Lettiere-Roberts | George Washington A | NYU B | 99 | 10 |
Albert Nyang | LSE | Imperial B | 100 | 10 |
Eshan Pant | NYU A | John Jay College | 101 | 10 |
Stan Melkumian | Purdue | Northwestern B | 103 | 10 |
Sharath Narayan | Northwestern A | Georgetown B | 103 | 10 |
Jacob Puthipiroj | Northwestern B | Purdue | 103 | -5 |
Andrei Hui | Cambridge B | Cambridge D | 103 | -5 |
Roan Dowling | Iowa | Notre Dame B | 105 | 10 |
Joseph Chambers | Virginia A | Wake Forest | 107 | 10 |
Eric Chang | Virginia Tech A | South Carolina | 107 | 10 |
Enina Edosomwan | Case Western A | Case Western B | 109 | 10 |
Ned Tagtmeier | Chicago A | Chicago B | 109 | 10 |
Chris Levesley | Warwick A | Manchester | 109 | 10 |
Jack Rado | Columbia B | Haverford B | 110 | 10 |
Truman Fillbrandt | UW A | Alberta | 111 | 10 |
John Hines-Shah | Carleton | Wisconsin A | 114 | 10 |
Simon Zimmerman | Ohio State A | Carnegie Mellon A | 116 | 10 |
Parker McCoig | Tennessee A | Georgia Tech D | 116 | 10 |
Beckett Gilmore | Louisville A | Vanderbilt A | 116 | 10 |
William Orr | Yale A | Vassar A | 116 | 10 |
Charles Hang | WashU A | Illinois C | 117 | 10 |
Chris Yoo | William & Mary | Duke | 118 | 10 |
Nermeen Rahman | Indiana B | Illinois B | 119 | 10 |
Morgan Bozeman | Minnesota B | Wisconsin B | 119 | 10 |
Arvin Boraghi | Cambridge C | Cambridge E | 120 | 10 |
Justin Lee | Imperial A | Durham | 125 | 10 |
Cole Polley | Michigan D | Carnegie Mellon B | 126 | 10 |
Alvin Guo | Chicago D | Missouri S&T | 132 | 10 |
Anirudh Bharadwaj | Penn A | George Washington B | 132 | 10 |
Anton Akroush | Michigan State | Michigan A | 133 | 10 |
Prahalad Rao | Ohio State B | Kenyon | 133 | 10 |
Diego Almaraz | UNC C | Liberty B | 133 | 0 |
Crow He | UNC B | Liberty A | 133 | 0 |
Jeffrey Austin | UNC D | Liberty C | 133 | 0 |
Jonathan Bost | Liberty B | UNC C | 133 | 0 |
Caleb Hines | Liberty A | UNC B | 133 | 0 |
Jonathan Schneidau | Liberty C | UNC D | 133 | 0 |
Will Sanders | Notre Dame C | Notre Dame A | 133 | 0 |
Rachel Ezrielev | Georgetown A | Stanford B | 133 | 10 |
Stephen Heritage | Notre Dame A | Notre Dame C | 133 | 0 |
John Luke Broussard | TAMU | Texas A | 133 | 10 |
Jacob Hardin-Bernhardt | NYU C | Southampton B | 133 | 10 |
Gus Vanskike | Maryland B | Penn B | 133 | 10 |
Greg Reiser | RIT B | Binghamton A | 133 | 0 |
Kevin Peng | Cornell C | RIT A | 133 | 10 |
Pranaav Senthilkumar | Cornell D | ESF A | 133 | 10 |
Owen Linder | Binghamton A | RIT B | 133 | 0 |
Percy Yuen | Cambridge D | Cambridge B | 146 | 10 |
Roselyn Daffin | Southampton A | Oxford C | 146 | 0 |
Benjamin Watson | Oxford C | Southampton A | 146 | 0 |
Kevin Flanagan | Bristol | Sheffield | 146 | 10 |