Question
In the novella Black Water, a fictionalization of a person with this surname kicks Kelly Kelleher after she tried to grab him. For 10 points each:
[10m] Give this surname. In the novel Blonde, a fictionalization of a person with this surname orders The Sharpshooter to kill the protagonist.
ANSWER: Kennedy [accept Edward Kennedy; accept Ted Kennedy; accept Robert Francis Kennedy; prompt on RFK]
[10e] Black Water and Blonde are by this American author of “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” She has averaged a novel a year for the past 30 years.
ANSWER: Joyce Carol Oates
[10h] This 1970 experimental collection of “condensed novels” courted controversy for its treatment of the Kennedys in the sections “Plan for the Assassination of Jacqueline Kennedy” and “The Assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy Considered as a Downhill Motor Race.”
ANSWER: The Atrocity Exhibition [or Love and Napalm: Export USA] (by J.G. Ballard)
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Summary
| 2025 ACF Nationals | 04/19/2025 | Y | 10 | 12.00 | 90% | 20% | 10% |
Data
| Johns Hopkins | Chicago B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| WUSTL A | Columbia A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Georgia State | Arizona State | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Waterloo A | Indiana | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| NYU | LSE | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Florida | Ottawa | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Rutgers | Stanford | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Toronto A | Northwestern | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| UC Berkeley A | Chicago A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Waterloo B | WUSTL B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |