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[1])the day (10[1])after accusing her former servant of pretending to be a “big man” by keeping the keys to a yellow bakkie truck. For 10 points, (10[1])the title character helps Bam and Maureen Smales escape a violent apartheid-ending uprising in what novel by Nadine Gordimer? ■END■

ANSWER: July’s People
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Tai Belke (DII)UBC BUW B9110
Truman Fillbrandt (UG)UW AAlberta9310
Russell Nip (UG)UBC ASFU11710

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