Question
In one of this author’s stories, a detective’s over-complication of a murder case results in his entrapment and death by the criminal Red Scharlach. In another story, this author used the phrase “upward behind the onstreaming it mooned” to illustrate the lack of nouns in an imaginary language. This author of Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius (“t’LERN UCK-bar OR-biss TER-shuss”) wrote of characters going insane after looking for prophetic works called “Vindications.” In that story, this author described the Purifiers’ frantic search for a Crimson Hexagon in a library containing all possible 410-page books. For 10 points, The Library of Babel is by what Argentine short-story writer? ■END■
ANSWER: Jorge Luis Borges (The first line is from Death and the Compass.)
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= Average correct buzz position
Summary
2024 ACF Fall at Ohio State | fall | Y | 9 | 100% | 0% | 11% | 74.44 |
2024 ACF Fall at Washington | fall | Y | 7 | 86% | 0% | 14% | 71.67 |
2024 ACF Fall at Georgia | fall | Y | 11 | 100% | 0% | 9% | 78.36 |
2024 ACF Fall at North Carolina | fall | Y | 8 | 88% | 0% | 0% | 68.00 |
2024 ACF Fall at Rutgers | fall | Y | 7 | 100% | 0% | 14% | 71.57 |
2024 ACF Fall at Illinois | fall | Y | 10 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 70.60 |
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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Jeffery Xu | Georgia Tech D | Georgia Tech A | 11 | 10 |
Henry Bylinowski | Auburn A | Georgia Tech E | 23 | 10 |
Zachary Kant | Emory A | Vanderbilt A | 66 | -5 |
Towery McNeil | Mississippi State A | Emory Oxford | 66 | 10 |
Griffin Elder | Tennessee A | South Carolina A | 86 | 10 |
Hayes Brown | Furman | Georgia Tech C | 87 | 10 |
Monish Jampala | Georgia Tech B | South Carolina B | 88 | 10 |
Dylan Missal | Alabama A | Georgia A | 95 | 10 |
Alina Moore | Tennessee B | Southern | 100 | 10 |
Coy Mier | Auburn C | Belmont | 102 | 10 |
Blake Enwiller | Vanderbilt A | Emory A | 102 | 10 |
Colin Vess | Vanderbilt B | Clemson A | 102 | 10 |
Gannon Rice | Clemson A | Vanderbilt B | 102 | 0 |