Question
The narrator of this novel sees his companion covered in golden scales and then swarming flies after consuming a sugar cube laced with LSD. This novel’s final image features an airplane taking the remnants of a man to “the leg stances of a million passengers” as his friend anoints an object with semen. A man in this novel masturbates while watching an event that is then shown in slow-motion on an Ampex machine. After killing a chemical engineer, the narrator of this novel sleeps with the engineer’s wife Helen Remington, which does not faze his promiscuous wife Catherine. This novel begins and ends with Vaughan orchestrating a bloody incident near a London Airport that wounds his obsession, the actress Elizabeth Taylor. For 10 points, what J. G. Ballard novel concerns a group of people sexually aroused by automobile collisions? ■END■
Summary
2023 ACF Nationals | 04/22/2023 | Y | 24 | 100% | 0% | 13% | 127.54 |
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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Arthur Delot-Vilain | Yale A | Georgia Tech A | 83 | -5 |
Ethan Ashbrook | Minnesota A | Columbia A | 87 | -5 |
Kevin Ye | UC Berkeley B | Houston A | 89 | -5 |
Justin Chen | NYU A | Vanderbilt A | 93 | 10 |
Ian Chow | Toronto A | North Carolina A | 105 | 10 |
Geoffrey Chen | Cornell A | Brown A | 113 | 10 |
Caleb Kendrick | Maryland A | Ohio State A | 119 | 10 |
Nicholas Tunks | Minnesota B | Imperial A | 120 | 10 |
Mitch McCullar | Illinois A | McGill A | 120 | 10 |
Justin Hawkins | Indiana A | Chicago C | 124 | 10 |
Tracy Mirkin | Florida A | Duke A | 126 | 10 |
Seth Ebner | Johns Hopkins A | Purdue A | 127 | 10 |
Tim Morrison | Stanford A | Chicago A | 127 | 10 |
Vedul Palavajjhala | WUSTL B | Penn A | 129 | 10 |
Ryan Sun | UC Berkeley A | Cornell B | 129 | 10 |
Amogh Kulkarni | Chicago B | WUSTL A | 133 | 10 |
Ani Perumalla | Penn State A | South Carolina A | 133 | 10 |
Jisoo Yoo | Texas A | MIT A | 134 | 10 |
Kevin Park | Claremont A | Rutgers A | 135 | 10 |
Gio Mazzeo | Virginia A | Yale B | 135 | 10 |
S. A. Shenoy | Georgia Tech B | Iowa State A | 135 | 10 |
Tiffany Zhou | Florida B | Columbia B | 135 | 10 |
Todd Maslyk | Michigan A | Rutgers B | 136 | 10 |
Mazin Omer | Harvard A | Northwestern A | 137 | 10 |
Arya Karthik | Georgia Tech A | Yale A | 138 | 10 |
Noah Sheidlower | Columbia A | Minnesota A | 139 | 10 |
John Broussard | Houston A | UC Berkeley B | 139 | 10 |