Sri Lanka - 2024 ACF Winter at Northwestern

Question

The title character of a novel attempts to get his lover DD and best friend Jaki to circulate his pictures exposing the brutality of this country’s civil war. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this country. A recently-murdered gay photographer has one week to find his killer in The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida, which is set in this country.

ANSWER: Sri Lanka [or Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka; accept Ceylon]

[10e] In 2022, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida won this prize whose eligibility expanded from Commonwealth novels to all English-language novels in 2014. After 2019, this literary prize dropped “Man” from its name.

ANSWER: Booker Prize [or Booker Prize for Fiction or Man Booker Prize]

[10m] The only other Sri Lankan-born author to win a Booker is this Sri Lankan-Canadian who wrote about Laszlo de Almasy’s recovery at an Italian villa in The English Patient.

ANSWER: Michael Ondaatje [or Philip Michael Ondaatje]

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Summary


2024 ACF Winter at UC Berkeley	2024-11-16	Y	3	26.67	100%	100%	67%
2024 ACF Winter at Clemson	2024-11-16	Y	8	13.75	75%	50%	13%
2024 ACF Winter at Northwestern	2024-11-16	Y	9	17.78	89%	78%	11%
2024 ACF Winter at Ohio State	2024-11-16	Y	7	14.29	100%	29%	14%
2024 ACF Winter at Online	2024-11-16	Y	8	22.50	88%	75%	63%
2024 ACF Winter at UBC	2024-11-16	Y	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Oxford	2024-11-16	Y	11	21.82	100%	64%	55%
2024 ACF Winter at Brandeis	2024-11-16	Y	10	17.00	90%	60%	20%

Data


UIUC B	Indiana B	0	10	10	20
Purdue B	Miami	0	10	10	20
UIUC C	Northwestern A	0	10	10	20
Indiana A	Notre Dame	0	10	10	20
Purdue A	WashU B	0	10	10	20
UChicago A	Purdue C	0	10	10	20
WashU D	Purdue D	0	0	0	0
SIUE A	UChicago B	10	10	10	30
WashU C	UIUC D	0	10	0	10