Question

Because a boy created by this author makes up the story as he goes, his adoptive father tells him he is not “real reading” a child’s version of Don Quixote. After arriving at Novilla in a refugee boat, Simón raises the five-year-old Davíd in the first novel of an allegorical trilogy by this author titled for Jesus. In a novel by this author, (-5[1])a man takes refuge in the mountains (10[1])after being treated like a servant at a farm by the Visagies' (“vih-SAH-hees”) grandson. At the end of a novel by this author, a man who had written the opera Byron in Italy decides to euthanize a dog at a shelter owned by Bev Shaw. This author created a middle-aged professor who is fired for sexually (10[1])pressuring (10[2])his student (10[1])Melanie Isaacs. For 10 points, what South African author of Life & Times of Michael K also wrote about (10[1])David Lurie in Disgrace? ■END■

ANSWER: J. M. Coetzee [or John Maxwell Coetzee]
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Charles YoungColumbia ABard A62-5
Mitch McCullarPenn State ARowan A6910
Ivonne ZhouPenn AJohns Hopkins A12410
Hazel DePreist-SullivanBard AColumbia A12510
Patrick Rivas-GiorgiColumbia BPenn B12510
Ethan FurmanHaverford ALehigh A12710
Alex WongRutgers ARutgers C14610

Summary

2024 ACF Winter at Clemson2024-11-16Y888%0%0%127.57
2024 ACF Winter at Lehigh2024-11-16Y6100%0%17%119.33
2024 ACF Winter at Northwestern2024-11-16Y989%0%33%124.25
2024 ACF Winter at Ohio State2024-11-16Y771%0%29%127.60
2024 ACF Winter at UBC2024-11-16Y3100%0%0%120.33