Question

A character created by this author titles a painting in which a seated, bare-chested woman wears a large hat and robe of the same red color and mossy decalcomania texture as the surrounding landscape. For a Maecenas Press printing of a book by this author, a melting clock table was illustrated in one of twelve heliogravures by Salvador Dali. One reptile’s body serves as a ship on which six (15[1])similar figures sit in a painting and sculpture titled for a poem by this author (15[1])and created by (*) Leonora Carrington. This author dropped the chapter “The Wasp in a Wig” on the advice of an illustrator who drew a duchess based on Quentin Matsys’s Ugly Duchess, (10[1])per an annotated edition by Martin Gardner. This author created a character who wears a horseshoe-shaped headband now named for her in illustrations by John Tenniel. For 10 points, name this author of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. ■END■

ANSWER: Lewis Carroll [or Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (The first line refers to Max Ernst’s Alice in 1941; the Carrington artworks are both titled How Doth the Little Crocodile.)
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Taylor HarveyCry of the Common LoonA is for Amy Robsart who fell down the stairs6815
Stephen LiuWhere are the ACF Nationals recordings?number of tang poems = 75 times number of lines in a shi = 100 times number of lines in a haiku8315
Tim MorrisonStanford+Berkeley11410

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2024 ARGOS @ Stanford02/22/2025Y3100%67%0%88.33
2024 ARGOS @ Brandeis03/22/2025Y3100%33%0%98.00
2024 ARGOS Online03/22/2025Y3100%0%67%137.33