Question

Rowdy youths bewilder and mock this man by applying the suffix -orama to several words, since they had just heard about the debut of the diorama. A younger character spying on this character through a peephole exclaims that this character must be as strong as King Augustus of Poland after seeing him bending metal with his bare hands. This character pawns his only remaining possessions, some silverware and buckles, to pay off a dressmaker, having earlier lost his fortunes when his two (*) daughters’ husbands gambled and speculated (10[1])it away. This former war profiteer and vermicelli maker lives in Madame (10[2])Vauquer’s boarding house with the criminal Vautrin (10[1]-5[1])and the social climber Eugene de Rastignac (10[1])[[“oo-zhen de rast-in-nyack”]]. For 10 points, what elderly character titles the most read novel in Balzac’s Human Comedy? ■END■ (10[2])

ANSWER: Père Goriot [or Father Goriot; or Old Goriot; or either part of Jean-Joachim Goriot]
<Taylor Harvey, European Literature>
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Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Jerry VinokurovJohn Jay AJHU B8610
Eshan PantNYUUMD B9810
Sinecio MoralesJHU APitt9810
Caleb KendrickUMD ACornell B10510
Raymond WangCornell ARutgers105-5
Forrest WeintraubColumbia AColumbia B11210
Cade ReinbergerRITSwarthmore13110
Lexi TermanRutgersCornell A13110

Summary

2023 Penn Bowl (Harvard)10/21/2023Y367%0%0%125.50
2023 Penn Bowl (Mainsite)10/21/2023Y7100%0%14%108.71
2023 Penn Bowl (Norcal)10/28/2023Y2100%50%0%54.00
2023 Penn Bowl (South Central)10/28/2023Y367%0%0%130.50
2023 Penn Bowl (UK)10/28/2023Y580%0%60%110.50
2023 Penn Bowl @ Waterloo10/28/2023Y4100%0%25%115.50
2023 Penn Bowl @ UNC10/28/2023Y367%0%0%124.00
2023 Penn Bowl @ FSU10/28/2023Y1100%0%0%131.00