Question
An essay by this author states that it would be fun to have to return to page 47 of a book to recall “exactly what time the second gardener potted the prize-winning tea-rose begonia.” That essay by this author laments that the “master of rare knowledge” is living “in the age of the hoop skirt,” and criticizes a novel in which no one sees the artificially roughened hands of a man who claims to come from Australia. This author’s call for a hero who goes down “mean streets” titles a Martin Scorsese film. This author’s stories “Spanish Blood” and “Nevada Gas” appear in a book whose title essay picks apart logical errors in A. A. Milne’s The Red House Mystery. This author set forth tenets for an ideal hero in “The Simple Art of Murder.” For 10 points, name this author whose private eye Philip Marlowe appears in The Big Sleep and The Long Goodbye. ■END■
Summary
2024 ACF Nationals | 2024-04-21 | Y | 24 | 96% | 0% | 38% | 139.78 |
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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Nathan Zhang | Cornell A | Stanford | 87 | 10 |
Ned Tagtmeier | Chicago A | WUSTL A | 115 | 10 |
Ryan Sun | Berkeley B | Chicago D | 119 | 10 |
Karsten Rynearson | Yale A | Johns Hopkins | 119 | 10 |
Ethan Ashbrook | Minnesota A | Purdue | 125 | 10 |
Andrew Hanna | Penn | Columbia B | 134 | -5 |
Jason Hong | Brown | Maryland | 134 | -5 |
Andrew Wang | Illinois | NYU | 134 | -5 |
Aum Mundhe | Rutgers | WUSTL B | 134 | 10 |
Andrew Ellis | Kentucky | South Carolina | 134 | 10 |
Yashwanth Bajji | Michigan | Toronto A | 134 | -5 |
Moses Kitakule | Columbia A | Chicago B | 137 | -5 |
Jared He | Waterloo | Indiana | 137 | 10 |
Will Orr | Yale B | Ottawa | 137 | -5 |
Guy Indorante | Iowa State | Georgia Tech | 139 | 10 |
Caleb Kendrick | Maryland | Brown | 141 | 10 |
Jim Fan | North Carolina A | Texas | 141 | 10 |
Hayden Prather | Florida | Arizona State | 145 | -5 |
Nathaniel Hull | Berkeley A | Northwestern | 145 | -5 |
Max Hodes | Chicago C | Truman State | 145 | 10 |
Gavin Markoff | Vanderbilt | North Carolina B | 145 | 10 |
Nicolas Edwards | McGill | Minnesota B | 148 | 10 |
Ashish Subramanian | Duke | Claremont Colleges | 149 | -5 |
Rosa Xia | Cornell B | Harvard | 149 | 10 |
Marcus Forbes-Green | Toronto B | Virginia | 153 | 10 |
Jack Rado | Columbia B | Penn | 154 | 10 |
Bryan Ugaz | Arizona State | Florida | 155 | 10 |
Chris Sims | Northwestern | Berkeley A | 155 | 0 |
Henry Cafaro | Chicago B | Columbia A | 155 | 10 |
Dean Ah Now | Claremont Colleges | Duke | 155 | 10 |
Halle Friedman | NYU | Illinois | 155 | 10 |
Wenying Wu | Toronto A | Michigan | 155 | 10 |
Ishan Joshi | Ottawa | Yale B | 155 | 10 |