Question
A novel titled for this character is revered by Gabriel Betteredge in Wilkie Collins’s The Moonstone. A friend of this character worships a god named Benamuckee and is killed in a novel titled for this character’s “farther adventures.” This character finds a footprint that he thinks belongs to the Devil in a novel in which a Portuguese captain helps him obtain a plantation in Brazil after selling the slave Xury (“ZUH-ree”). Alexander Selkirk is thought to be the inspiration for this character, who converts a cannibal to Christianity and names him Friday. For 10 points, name this title character who is shipwrecked on an island in a Daniel Defoe novel. ■END■
ANSWER: Robinson Crusoe [or Robinson Crusoe; accept The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe]
<Literature - British Literature>
= Average correct buzz position
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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Andrea Ladino (UG) | NYU B | NYU C | 65 | 10 |
Lucas Shedlock (DII) | Princeton | Penn | 69 | 10 |
Daniel Shannon (DII) | University of Delaware A | NYU A | 77 | 10 |
Frank Paz (DII) | Swarthmore A | Columbia A | 82 | 10 |
Wade Rogers (DII) | Fordham | Swarthmore B | 92 | -5 |
Will Hollister (DII) | Lehigh | University of Delaware B | 100 | 10 |
Ben Rotko (UG) | Swarthmore B | Fordham | 109 | 10 |