Question
One of these characters belonging to Mr. Sneaze (“sneeze”) falls into a barrel of water at the end of the novel it appears in. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this type of character that Toru is tasked with finding by his wife Kumiko at the start of the section “The Thieving Magpie.”
ANSWER: a cat [or neko; prompt on animals or felines; prompt on pets] (Lead-in is from Natsume Soseki’s I Am a Cat.)
[10m] This Japanese author wrote The Wind-up Bird Chronicle. Nakata can understand the language of cats in this author's Kafka on the Shore.
ANSWER: Haruki Murakami
[10e] The Town of Cats appears in Murakami's 1Q84, whose title is a reference to this British author's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.
ANSWER: George Orwell [or Eric Arthur Blair]
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Summary
| 2024 ACF Fall at Cornell | fall | Y | 1 | 30.00 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Ohio State | fall | Y | 9 | 20.00 | 100% | 78% | 22% |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Washington | fall | Y | 7 | 18.57 | 100% | 71% | 14% |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Georgia | fall | Y | 12 | 20.83 | 100% | 83% | 25% |
| 2024 ACF Fall at North Carolina | fall | Y | 10 | 18.00 | 100% | 70% | 10% |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Rutgers | fall | Y | 8 | 20.00 | 100% | 75% | 25% |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Illinois | fall | Y | 9 | 22.22 | 100% | 100% | 22% |
Data
| Chicago B | Indiana | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Illinois A | Illinois B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Illinois C | SIUE | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Iowa A | Notre Dame B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Notre Dame A | Iowa B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Northwestern A | Notre Dame C | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Purdue A | Northwestern B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Purdue B | WashU B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Chicago A | Purdue C | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |