Question

In a short story, the narrator’s wife gives an old man one of her father’s old suits to console him for being mistakenly given an overly heavy one of these objects. A man in a novel wonders if one of these objects survived a fire in a “third pasture” after visiting an illegal Indian shanty store. In a novel, one of these objects haunts a pig-iron magnate, who is reminded of it when his leg (10[1])gets stuck in some mud in the river. A poultry boy scrapes together 20 pounds for Lerice’s husband to buy back one of these objects, (-5[1])only for him to be given the wrong one, in the story “Six Feet of the Country.” In a novel that shared the 1974 Booker Prize, (-5[1])the memory of a leftist lover named Antonia (10[1])and the finding (-5[1])of one of these objects haunts the (10[1])white South African Mehring. (10[3])For (10[1])10 (10[1])points, (10[2]-5[1])the discovery (10[1])of what (10[2])sort of object on a farm (10[1])opens (10[1])the plot (10[1])of (10[2])Nadine Gordimer’s novel The (10[1])Conservationist? (10[1])■END■ (10[4]0[1])

ANSWER: human ​corpse​s [or ​carcass​es; or remains; or dead ​bodie​s or a dead body; accept ​cadaver​s; prompt on humans, people, a person, men, or equivalents; reject “skeletons” or “bones”]
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Summary

2023 ACF Nationals04/22/2023Y24100%0%17%153.21

Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Daniel SheinbergYale AGeorgia Tech A7410
Guy IndoranteIowa State AGeorgia Tech B99-5
Tim MorrisonStanford AChicago A125-5
Karsten RynearsonYale BVirginia A13310
Raymond WangCornell ABrown A136-5
Ethan AshbrookMinnesota AColumbia A14310
Matthew LehmannWUSTL AChicago B14710
Khushi UmarwadiaSouth Carolina APenn State A14710
Anuttam RamjiUC Berkeley BHouston A14710
Collin AceRutgers BMichigan A14810
Tracy MirkinFlorida ADuke A14910
Mitch McCullarIllinois AMcGill A15010
Ricky LiMIT ATexas A15010
Chris RayOhio State AMaryland A150-5
Halle FriedmanNYU AVanderbilt A15210
Raymond ChenToronto ANorth Carolina A15410
Shahar SchwartzUC Berkeley ACornell B15410
Justin HawkinsIndiana AChicago C16010
Caleb KendrickMaryland AOhio State A16110
Andrew SalijNorthwestern AHarvard A16310
Aiden DartleyRutgers AClaremont A16410
Ben DahlPurdue AJohns Hopkins A16410
Tegan KapadiaGeorgia Tech BIowa State A16810
Walter ZhangBrown ACornell A16910
Benjamin WeinerMinnesota BImperial A17010
Matt JacksonChicago AStanford A17010
William GrogerColumbia BFlorida B17010
Jeya IyaduraiFlorida BColumbia B1700
Vedul PalavajjhalaWUSTL BPenn A17010