Question

The final three lines of a novel in this language spell out “e-n-d” after its funnel-shaped last paragraph progressively loses words and letters. The US government quarantines the passengers of a duplicated airline flight in that 2020 novel in this language, The Anomaly. Another novel in this language follows a knight’s tour through a 100-room (15[1])apartment building, frozen in time at the death of an obsessive jigsaw puzzle solver named (*) Bartlebooth. A story in this language is retold 99 times in Exercises in Style, which was written by the author of a novel in this language about a 10-year-old girl visiting her uncle Gabriel. The disappearance of Anton Vowl occurs in a novel in this language written (10[1])entirely without the letter e. For 10 points, name this language used to write the novel A Void and others by Oulipo (“oo-lee-PO”) authors Raymond Queneau (“kuh-NO”) and Georges Perec ■END■

ANSWER: French [or Francaise] (The Anomaly is by contemporary Oulipo author Herve Le Tellier. The novel in the third sentence is Life: A User’s Manual by Perec. The last unnamed novel is Zazie in the Metro by Queneau.)
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Gabe ForrestSquidward Community CollegeMissouri5415
Neal JoshiWashUTruman11610

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2024 ARCADIA at Warwick2024-12-06Y5100%0%0%89.40
2024 ARCADIA at Duke2024-12-06Y3100%0%0%120.33
2024 ARCADIA at Missouri S&T2024-12-06Y2100%50%0%85.00
2024 ARCADIA at BU2024-12-06Y5100%20%20%117.20
2024 ARCADIA at Penn State2024-12-06Y2100%50%0%93.00
2024 ARCADIA at Florida Tech2024-12-06Y475%25%0%96.67
2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley2024-12-06Y2100%0%100%107.50
2024 ARCADIA at GT2024-12-06Y4100%0%0%111.00
2024 ARCADIA Online2025-05-17Y4100%100%0%54.75