Question

A member of this family used his former brother-in-law as the inspiration for an unscrupulous theater actor, who denounces his half-African mistress in the novel Mephisto. Another member of this family obtained an English passport through a marriage of convenience with W.H. Auden. The author of Man of Straw was from this family, as was an author who depicted a character who hallucinates two (*) witches while caught skiing in a blizzard. In that (10[1])novel by a member of this family, the protagonist uses French to (10[1])flirt with a Russian countess on (-5[1])Walpurgis Night. A member of this family wrote a novel, in which the democrat Settembrini and the Jesuit Naphta [naf-tuh] duel during Hans Castorp’s stay in (10[1])a Swiss (10[1])sanatorium. For 10 points, a member of what literary family wrote The Magic Mountain? (0[1])■END■

ANSWER: Mann [accept Thomas Mann, Heinrich Mann, Klaus Mann, or Erika Mann]
<Literature - European Literature>
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Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
William OrrYaleNYU A7310
Evan SchleckGathererPrinceton8510
Moses KitakuleColumbia BLehigh A91-5
Jack RadoColumbia ARutgers11710
Andre WongColumbia CLehigh B11910
Eddie FuhrerLehigh AColumbia B1330

Summary

2024 Booster Shot (Columbia)02/23/2024Y580%0%20%98.50
2024 Booster Shot (Waterloo)02/23/2024Y3100%0%0%104.33