Question
In a novel by this author, the “fetish”-worshiping “master of energies” is advised by the devout Muslim Tiekoro, the half-brother of a boy who is captured by tondyons and voluntarily boards a slave ship to protect Ayodele. In a novel by this author, the title character sings of a fallen “moonstone” in a lament for her lost child and lives with a Jewish merchant whose nine children are burnt by a mob. This author won the one-off 2018 “alternative Nobel” and, at age 89, was shortlisted for the 2023 International Booker for The Gospel (*) According to the New World. In a novel by this author, the title wife of John Indian is visited in her dreams by Mama Yaya and Hester, a convicted adulterer whom she befriends in a Boston jail. This author followed generations of a Malian family in Segu and retold Wuthering Heights in Windward Heights. For 10 points, name this late Guadeloupean author who depicted the Salem Witch Trials in I, Tituba. ■END■
Summary
2024 Chicago Open | 07/28/2024 | Y | 15 | 87% | 13% | 13% | 130.54 |
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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Henry Goff | A Nervy Liberal Nanny Hence | sticking out your guyot for the ridge push; you're so seafloor spread, you're so fracture zone | 76 | 15 |
Will Alston | LMM's LLM MLM | I’ll take a quiet 10 / A handshake of CO (Chicago Open) | 79 | -5 |
Raymond Wang | AMOGH QUIZ HACK? 英雄联盟 400 PPG 24 TUH | Lisan al-Quib | 79 | 15 |
John Lawrence | BHSU B | The Dyatlov Passement incident | 113 | 10 |
Rahul Keyal | Lying on a Mattress at Lou’s Apartment in Pilsen, Chicago | Are You There, Chat? It's Me, Margaret | 120 | -5 |
Arya Karthik | Charlotte's Moderately Successful Team | Read slowly: A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A Read quickly: A | 120 | 10 |
Ethan Ashbrook | Galvanized Square Steen and Eco-Friendly Wood Vermeer | The Oldest Men in the World | 126 | 10 |
Michael Hunding | SAYYID QUTB, DRIVING THE LONGEST CAR YOU’VE EVER SEEN THROUGH TAHRIR SQUARE | Mindgoblin of Little Hobbes | 130 | 10 |
Kevin Ye | Berkeley Mafia and the Chicago Boy | First Cause, First Cause, make me young! | 132 | 10 |
Eve Fleisig | it's the great pumpkinification objection, charlie brown | We Need New Names | 137 | 10 |
Milan Fernandez | The Empire Bikes Back | Punished "Venom" BHSU | 142 | 10 |
Mitch McCullar | Are You There, Chat? It's Me, Margaret | Lying on a Mattress at Lou’s Apartment in Pilsen, Chicago | 147 | 10 |
Emmett Laurie | I’ll take a quiet 10 / A handshake of CO (Chicago Open) | LMM's LLM MLM | 165 | 10 |
Jorrest Weintraub | The Jeam Team | Les Missourables | 165 | 10 |
Hazel DePriest-Sullivan | NJTRANSit (and bobby, i guess) | There are buzzable clues everywhere for those with eyes to see | 165 | 0 |
Christopher Sims | There are buzzable clues everywhere for those with eyes to see | NJTRANSit (and bobby, i guess) | 165 | 0 |
Azura Gollamudi | var merchants | genAI this, genAI that, have you found your 真爱 yet | 165 | 0 |
Chinmay Kansara | when you look this good, you don’t have to know anything | NJTRANSit (and anwen, I guess) | 165 | 10 |
Anwen Kelleher | NJTRANSit (and anwen, I guess) | when you look this good, you don’t have to know anything | 165 | 0 |