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A monologue in a play by this author tells of a spider kept out of Heaven in case he scared children. In that play by this author, Charles Dickens hosts a guest who calls him “Charles Darwin” and returns home to find two time-traveling Belgians who were shot with a machine gun hidden in a “haunted concertina.” This author created a character who writes a story about a girl who thinks she is Jesus’s second coming being buried (10[1])alive, and another about a girl who kills her father by putting razor blades in his apples. A pygmy woman (10[1]-5[1])is forced to write (10[1])stories (10[1])for Hans (-5[1])Christian Andersen in this playwright’s A Very Very (10[1])Very Dark Matter. (10[1])In a play by this author, detectives Ariel and Tupolski question Katurian, whose stories mirror real-life (-5[1])child murders. (10[2])For 10 points, (10[1])what Irish author of The Pillowman (-5[2])wrote and directed (10[2])the film In Bruges ■END■ (10[5]0[5])

ANSWER: Martin McDonagh (“mac-DON-uh”) [or Martin Faranan McDonagh]
<British Literature>
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2024 ACF Nationals2024-04-21Y2176%0%24%127.88

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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Matthew LehmannWUSTL AWaterloo7710
Caleb KendrickMarylandGeorgia Tech9710
Andrew HannaPennDuke97-5
Andrew ZengStanfordChicago B10110
Justin WytmarIllinoisIowa State10210
Jason HongBrownYale A104-5
Ned TagtmeierChicago AMinnesota A11210
Richard NiuCornell AIndiana11510
Eylon CaplanPurdueTexas131-5
Kevin ParkClaremont CollegesFlorida13310
Halle FriedmanNYUNorthwestern13310
Seth EbnerJohns HopkinsMichigan13610
Nathaniel HullBerkeley AToronto A142-5
Ishan JoshiOttawaWUSTL B142-5
Andrew EllisKentuckyMcGill14510
Will OrrYale BArizona State14510
Matthew SiffYale ABrown15010
Rosa XiaCornell BChicago C1500
Max HodesChicago CCornell B1500
Moses KitakuleColumbia ANorth Carolina A1500
Benjamin McAvoy-BickfordNorth Carolina AColumbia A1500
Anuttam RamjiBerkeley BNorth Carolina B1500
Ivvone ZhouNorth Carolina BBerkeley B15010
Mitchell ShaddenTexasPurdue15010
Gavin MarkoffVanderbiltMinnesota B15010
Joseph ChambersVirginiaColumbia B15010