Question

In this novel, a character differentiates her husband from a house servant by respectively referring to them as “My Jim” and “Our Jim.” A character in this novel introduces himself to an assistant in a mismatched suit that he mistakes for a chief. Two characters in this novel briefly attend a party featuring a man who plays records out of a red box. During that gumba-gumba, a shotgun earlier used to hunt two warthogs is stolen by Daniel to join rebel fighters. This novel ends with the protagonist running towards a helicopter (10[4])the day after (10[1])accusing her former servant of pretending to be a “big man” by keeping the keys to a yellow bakkie truck. For 10 points, the title character helps Bam and Maureen Smales escape a violent apartheid-ending uprising in what novel by Nadine Gordimer? (10[1])■END■ (10[1]0[4])

ANSWER: July’s People
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Summary

2024 ACF Winter at UC Berkeley2024-11-16Y3100%0%0%91.00
2024 ACF Winter at Clemson2024-11-16Y888%0%13%100.14
2024 ACF Winter at Ohio State2024-11-16Y5100%0%40%118.20
2024 ACF Winter at Online2024-11-16Y8100%0%13%93.63
2024 ACF Winter at UBC2024-11-16Y3100%0%0%100.33
2024 ACF Winter at Central Florida2024-11-16Y580%0%0%111.50
2024 ACF Winter at Oxford2024-11-16Y1070%0%0%104.43

Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Andrei HuiCambridge BOxford A9110
Seraphina CharlotteCambridge ACambridge C9110
Kevin FlanaganBristol ALSE A9110
Gavin MarkoffVanderbiltWarwick B9110
Chris LevesleyWarwick ASouthampton A9410
Percy YuenCambridge DSouthampton13610
Mikey BrownBirminghamImperial B1370
Ryan SharpeLSE BBristol B13710
James CarrigyEdinburghDurham B1370
Luke NashDurham BEdinburgh1370
Nathan EasowManchesterImperial A1370