Question

A novel by this author intersperses italicized descriptions with soliloquies of the six friends of dead Percival. This author’s life is the basis for a novel about the AIDS-afflicted poet Richard Brown, The Hours by Michael Cunningham. In a novel by this author, Charles Tansley says that women can’t (10[1])paint or write in front of Lily Briscoe. The title character (10[1])of a novel by this author remembers kissing Sally Seton (-5[1])while at a dinner party on the night (10[1])that the World War I veteran Septimus Smith jumps out a window. (10[2])A novel by this author details the Ramsey family’s visit to the title structure. For 10 points, name this author of To the Lighthouse (10[1])and Mrs. Dalloway. ■END■ (10[2])

ANSWER: Virginia Woolf (The novel in the first line is The Waves.)
<British Literature>
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Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Antonio LaNaveVirginia Tech ATusculum4810
Josh SchmidtLiberty ADuke A5910
Ethan RehderDuke BVirginia Tech B69-5
Soren HeydariUNC CUNC A7710
Cameron WiliamsAppalachian State AJames Madison B8910
Meredie CohenWilliam & MaryLiberty C8910
Nick SmemoeUNC BVCU11310
Miller DoerrLiberty BJames Madison A11710
Zachary BornsteinVirginia Tech BDuke B11710

Summary

2024 ACF Fall at CornellfallY989%0%0%94.38
2024 ACF Fall at Ohio StatefallY8100%0%0%73.75
2024 ACF Fall at WashingtonfallY6100%0%17%79.00
2024 ACF Fall at GeorgiafallY1292%0%17%89.55
2024 ACF Fall at North CarolinafallY8100%0%13%88.63
2024 ACF Fall at Claremont CollegesfallY5100%0%0%88.80
2024 ACF Fall at RutgersfallY989%0%0%86.00
2024 ACF Fall at IllinoisfallY9100%0%11%83.56