Question

This character uses the phrase “talking by installments” to describe abruptly starting and stopping conversations while walking on the sidewalk. This character exclaims “Always in the stink of women! How I hate women” while complaining about how she lives in a hostel. While in a thrush, this character throws off (-5[1])her overalls in “that same magnificent gesture by which a whole (*) civilization seemed to be annihilated.” The“shapeliness” of the hips of this “rebel (-5[1])from the waist downward” is brought (10[1])out by the sash she wears around them (10[1])as a member of the Junior Anti-Sex League. The protagonist shouts “Do it to [this woman]” when O’Brien is about to let rats eat his face in Room 101. For 10 points, name this lover of Winston Smith in George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four. (10[1])■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: Julia
<Literature - British Literature>
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Franklin WuToronto PilkOttawa50-5
Tony ChenToronto Tony Jingyu Chen eats quizbowlWaterloo Bust73-5
Jacob BicolWaterloo CaliToronto Sprout7910
Marcus Forbes-GreenToronto cDNAToronto Penguin World War8710
Ishan JoshiOttawaToronto Pilk13010
Caleb OttWaterloo BustToronto Tony Jingyu Chen eats quizbowl13110

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2024 Booster Shot (Columbia)02/23/2024Y683%0%0%93.80
2024 Booster Shot (Waterloo)02/23/2024Y4100%0%50%106.75
2024 Booster Shot (Vanderbilt)03/02/2024Y3100%0%0%91.00
2024 Booster Shot (Great Lakes)03/09/2024Y5100%20%0%84.20
2024 Booster Shot (WUSTL)03/09/2024Y3100%0%33%101.00