Question
In a novel by this author, the protagonist runs away to a carnival with Idabel Thompkins where he rejects the advances of a woman with dwarfism on a ferris wheel. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this author who wrote a true crime novel about the Clutter family’s murder in Kansas, In Cold Blood. This author also wrote a novella depicting the socialite Holly Golightly.
ANSWER: Truman Capote (The novella is Breakfast at Tiffany’s.)
[10h] In this other Truman Capote novel, Joel Knox travels from New Orleans to Skully’s Landing where he meets his quadriplegic father who abandoned him at birth.
ANSWER: Other Voices, Other Rooms
[10e] This author used Truman Capote as the inspiration for the character Dill in her novel To Kill A Mockingbird.
ANSWER: Harper Lee [or Nelle Harper Lee]
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Summary
| 2024 ACF Fall at Cornell | fall | Y | 9 | 15.56 | 100% | 56% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Ohio State | fall | Y | 8 | 17.50 | 100% | 75% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Washington | fall | Y | 6 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Georgia | fall | Y | 12 | 18.33 | 100% | 83% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Fall at North Carolina | fall | Y | 9 | 15.56 | 89% | 67% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Claremont Colleges | fall | Y | 5 | 18.00 | 100% | 80% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Rutgers | fall | Y | 8 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Illinois | fall | Y | 9 | 18.89 | 100% | 89% | 0% |
Data
| Illinois A | Chicago B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Purdue C | Illinois C | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Notre Dame C | Indiana | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Iowa A | Illinois D | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Iowa B | Northwestern A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Northwestern B | WashU A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| WashU B | Notre Dame A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Notre Dame B | SIUE | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Illinois B | Purdue B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |