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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. (10[1])In a novel by this author, Charles Tansley says that women can’t paint or write in front (10[1])of Lily Briscoe. (10[1])The title character of a novel by this author (10[1])remembers kissing Sally Seton (10[1])while at a dinner party on the night that the World War (10[1])I veteran Septimus Smith jumps out a window. 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[1])

ANSWER: Virginia Woolf (The novel in the first line is The Waves.)
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Rachel Fanous (DII)Michigan A (UG) Michigan B (UG)3610
Beckett Gilmore (DII)Jefferson County Scholars (DII)Michigan C 5310
Anton Akroush (DII)Michigan State A Michigan State B 5610
Meredith Wiper (DII)CWRU B (DII) Miami A (UG) 6510
Matthew Kelley (DII)Michigan D (UG)West Virginia B (UG) 6910
Mikolai Davis (DII)Ohio State B (DII) Miami B (UG) 8110
Matthew Lam (DII)Ohio State A (UG) CWRU C (UG)11310
Henry Nonnemaker (DII)CWRU A (UG) West Virginia A (UG) 11710

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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