Question

After possibly acquiring this disease, Sophie nearly reveals her affair to her husband Otto in Paula Fox’s novel Desperate Characters. In another novel, a man with this disease is delayed in firing a gun because it had been set to run through its three empty chambers first. While recalling the death of a man from this disease, his wife “pulls in her horizon like a great fish-net” (10[1])in a novel’s last lines; (10[2])that man contracted this disease (10[1])while his wife (10[1])held onto a cow’s tail. In that novel, a man with this disease is given a royal burial in Belle Glade. That man acquires this disease amid a 1928 hurricane near the Everglades (10[1])and is shot by his wife, Janie Crawford. (-5[1])For 10 points, what disease contracted (10[1])by Tea Cake in Their Eyes Were Watching God also affects the title character of Old Yeller? ■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: rabies [or being rabid; prompt on madness or paranoia; prompt on hydrophobia]
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
William OrrYale AJohns Hopkins A6610
Noah ChenColumbia BJohn Jay College7110
Eshan PantNYU APenn A7110
Emily BussaMaryland AGeorge Washington B7610
Rosa XiaCornell BRutgers A7910
Sam MacchiVassar AHaverford A11210
William BrokerHaverford BPenn B120-5
Elijah ScheinsonColumbia CGeorge Washington A12610
Vedh RameshPenn BHaverford B14410

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