Question
Keith Neudecker cheats on his wife with Florence and becomes a poker player after this event in a novel titled for a famous photograph. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this event during which Oskar Schell’s father dies in the Jonathan Safran Foer novel Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close.
ANSWER: 9/11 [accept anything about the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center or the Twin Towers on September 11, 2001]
[10m] This author wrote about 9/11 in the novel Falling Man. This author also wrote about Jack Gladney, who teaches Hitler studies before the Airborne Toxic Event, in the novel White Noise.
ANSWER: Don DeLillo [or Donald Richard DeLillo]
[10e] In White Noise, Jack’s wife Babette takes the drug Dylar because she fears this concept. An Emily Dickinson poem is titled “Because I Could Not Stop for [this concept].”
ANSWER: death [accept fear of death; accept “Because I Could Not Stop for Death”]
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Summary
| 2024 ACF Fall at Cornell | fall | Y | 9 | 14.44 | 89% | 33% | 22% |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Ohio State | fall | Y | 8 | 17.50 | 100% | 38% | 38% |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Washington | fall | Y | 6 | 23.33 | 100% | 50% | 83% |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Georgia | fall | Y | 11 | 19.09 | 100% | 36% | 55% |
| 2024 ACF Fall at North Carolina | fall | Y | 9 | 17.78 | 100% | 44% | 33% |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Claremont Colleges | fall | Y | 5 | 16.00 | 100% | 20% | 40% |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Rutgers | fall | Y | 8 | 16.25 | 100% | 25% | 38% |
Data
| Binghamton A | RIT C | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Binghamton B | Cornell E | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Cornell C | Binghamton C | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Cornell A | Cornell D | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| RIT A | Cornell B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Penn State | Cornell F | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| ESF | Cornell G | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| U of Rochester A | Syracuse | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| RIT B | U of Rochester B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |