Question
The title story of a collection by this author follows the headmaster Timothy Gray, who is doomed to drown near Crete. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this author of the collection Not After Midnight, which also contains a story in which the paranoid John is murdered in Venice by a knife-throwing dwarf who wears a pixie-hood.
ANSWER: Daphne du Maurier [or Dame Daphne du Maurier, Lady Browning; prompt on Lady Browning]
[10e] Another collection by du Maurier is titled for these animals who attack a Cornish town in a story that was adapted into a horror film by Alfred Hitchcock.
ANSWER: birds [prompt on specific birds like seagulls by asking “can you be less specific?”]
[10m] Du Maurier’s story “The Breakthrough” was written at this author’s request for a sci-fi anthology that never got published. The protagonist of a novel by this author is fired after giving a drunken speech on “Merrie England.”
ANSWER: Kingsley Amis [or Sir Kingsley William Amis; prompt on Amis] (The novel is Lucky Jim.)
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Summary
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Berkeley | 01/27/2024 | Y | 3 | 23.33 | 100% | 100% | 33% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Cornell | 01/27/2024 | Y | 1 | 30.00 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ JMU | 01/27/2024 | Y | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Nebraska | 01/27/2024 | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 0% | 67% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Ohio State | 01/27/2024 | Y | 2 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Rutgers | 01/27/2024 | Y | 4 | 17.50 | 100% | 75% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Imperial | 01/27/2024 | Y | 6 | 20.00 | 100% | 67% | 33% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Vanderbilt | 01/27/2024 | Y | 5 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
Data
| Claremont A | UBC A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Iowa A | Rice A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Texas A | Sorbonne | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |