Question
This author called growing older “the great unsexing” in an essay also reflecting on John Berger and Balthasar Denner’s painting Alte Frau. A term originally applied to this author was modified to apply to the overly emotional criticism of Jia Tolentino in Lauren Oyler’s essay “Ha ha! Ha ha!” This author critiqued Justin Bieber, the films Anomalisa and Get Out, and Dana Schutz’s Open Casket in the 2018 essay collection Feel Free. This author wrote about the housekeeper of William Harrison Ainsworth observing the Tichborne case in her 2023 novel The Fraud. James Wood coined the term “hysterical realism” to describe a 2000 novel by this author featuring the Londoners Samad Iqbal and Archie Jones. For 10 points, name this contemporary British author of White Teeth. ■END■
Summary
California | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 88.00 |
Lower Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 83% | 0% | 0% | 115.00 |
Midwest | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 88.33 |
Northeast | 2025-02-01 | Y | 5 | 80% | 0% | 20% | 110.75 |
Pacific Northwest | 2025-02-01 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 113.50 |
South Central | 2025-02-01 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 102.00 |
Southeast | 2025-02-01 | Y | 1 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 89.00 |
Upper Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 100.25 |
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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Jakob Myers | Indiana A | Missouri | 51 | 10 |
Swapnil Garg | UC Berkeley A | UCLA | 63 | 10 |
Anuttam Ramji | UC Berkeley B | Claremont B | 88 | 10 |
Richard Niu | Cornell B | George Washington A | 88 | 10 |
Kayla Drajpuch | Brandeis A | Dartmouth A | 89 | 10 |
Kevin Wang | Georgia Tech C | Bruin A | 89 | 10 |
William Orr | Yale A | Haverford A | 89 | 10 |
Gus Vanskike | Maryland B | John Jay College | 89 | 10 |
Noah Chin | Virginia Tech A | Virginia A | 91 | 10 |
Megan Ha | Chicago C | WashU A | 91 | 10 |
Emily Bussa | Maryland A | Penn B | 91 | 10 |
Ned Tagtmeier | Chicago A | Missoui S&T | 96 | 10 |
Neal Joshi | WashU B | Chicago D | 96 | 10 |
Ryan Rosenberg | NYU A | George Washington B | 96 | 10 |
Trenton Burgess | Indiana B | Chicago B | 98 | 10 |
Arjun Kala | Illinois B | Illinois C | 98 | 10 |
Bryan Ugaz | ASU | Texas B | 98 | 10 |
Jisoo Yoo | Texas A | TAMU | 106 | 10 |
Aum Mundhe | Rutgers A | NYU B | 110 | 10 |
Kevin Park | Claremont A | UCSD | 113 | 10 |
Arjun Nageswaran | Harvard A | BU | 113 | -5 |
Yaj Jhajhria | UW B | Alberta | 113 | 10 |
Chris Yoo | William & Mary | Liberty C | 114 | 10 |
Yrwin Batan | MIT A | Brandeis B | 114 | 10 |
Khugan Chan | UMass Boston | Tufts A | 114 | 10 |
Tai Belke | UBC | UW A | 114 | 10 |
Sam Macchi | Vassar A | Columbia C | 114 | 10 |
Ivan Stanisavljevic | Duke | UNC D | 118 | 10 |
Ivvone Zhou | Penn A | Haverford B | 125 | 10 |
Josh Schmidt | Liberty A | Liberty B | 126 | 10 |
Crow He | UNC B | UNC C | 126 | 10 |
Robert Freeman | South Carolina | Wake Forest | 126 | 0 |
Max Neal | Harvard B | Brown A | 126 | 10 |
Eren Michelet | BU | Harvard A | 126 | 0 |