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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2024 ACF Fall at CornellfallY914.4489%33%22%
2024 ACF Fall at Ohio StatefallY817.50100%38%38%
2024 ACF Fall at WashingtonfallY623.33100%50%83%
2024 ACF Fall at GeorgiafallY1119.09100%36%55%
2024 ACF Fall at North CarolinafallY917.78100%44%33%
2024 ACF Fall at Claremont CollegesfallY516.00100%20%40%
2024 ACF Fall at RutgersfallY816.25100%25%38%

Data

Vanderbilt AAlabama A1001020
Auburn CGeorgia Tech B001010
Emory AEmory Oxford0101020
Georgia Tech AFurman10101030
Georgia Tech CBelmont001010
Tennessee AGeorgia Tech D10101030
Georgia Tech BMissisippi State1001020
Mississippi State AGeorgia Tech E1001020
SouthernSouth Carolina B0101020
Clemson BTennessee B1001020
Auburn BVanderbilt B001010