Salman Rushdie - 2025 ACF Fall

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A children’s book by this author takes place on a moon whose orbit is a "Process Too Complicated To Explain” (-5[5])and a city (10[1]-5[1])whose (-5[1])residents eat “glumfish.” This author wrote a novel where a (-5[1])doctor comes home to his (10[1])wife covered in blood, which she mistakes for Mercurochrome. (10[1])The mountaineer Allie Cone (10[1])is murdered (10[3])in a book (10[4])by this author (10[1])by a man who believes (10[1])himself to be the angel (10[1])Gabriel (10[2])after surviving (10[1]-5[2])a (10[1])plane (10[1])crash (10[3])over the (10[4])English (10[5])Channel (10[8])with (10[3]-5[1])Saladin. (10[6]-5[1])In (10[1])a (10[1])novel by this (10[1])author, (10[5])telepathic powers (10[3])are (10[1])acquired (10[6])by (10[1])all (10[2])babies (10[1])born (10[2])at the hour (10[4])of (10[2])India’s (10[1])partition. (10[5])For (10[1])10 points, (10[2])name this British-Indian (10[1])author (10[1])of (10[1])Midnight’s (10[3])Children (10[3])and (10[3])The Satanic (10[2])Verses. (10[7])■END■ (10[8]0[1])

ANSWER: Salman Rushdie [or Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie] (The first line refers to Haroun and the Sea of Stories.)

<Editors, British Literature>

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Player	Team	Opponent	Position	Value
Sage Saperstein	USC B	UC Irvine	19	-5
Sarah Silverman	Claremont C	UCLA A	19	-5
Aris Anton	Waterloo C	Guelph A	19	-5
Adrian O'Leary	Waterloo A	McMaster A	19	-5
Parker Jones	NCSU B	JMU B	19	-5
Alan Fan	Washington Steelhead	Arizona State A	22	10
Atticus Teter	Durham A	Sheffield B	22	-5
Stella Broome	Virginia A	UNC A	23	-5
Tevin Francis	Southampton	Cambridge B	33	-5
Jaden Bandy	Rutgers B	Princeton	38	10
Trey Lewis	South Carolina A	Georgia Tech C	47	10
Eric Zhu	Cornell D	RIT A	51	10
Mary Kate Vance	Louisville A	CWRU A	53	10
Kevin Yang	Illinois Blue	Purdue A	53	10
Devin Tharp	Chipola College	Georgia Tech A	53	10
Galen Mueller	McGill B	Ottawa D	56	10
Maggie Dunn	Michigan B	CWRU B	56	10
Michael Ai	Williams A	Dartmouth A	56	10
Aaron Bates	Washington Pink	Texas	56	10
David Ciardella	Vermont B	Amherst A	59	10
Gannon Smith	Maryland A	Maryland C	64	10
Emily Kadolph	Virginia Tech B	William & Mary A	69	10
Sewanth Paudel	Ohio State C	Michigan D	70	10
Lily Hughbanks	Purdue C	Indiana A	70	10
Margaret Withers	George Mason B	Penn	72	10
Jack Meyers	Brown B	Boston College A	72	-5
Scott Hyde	Georgia Tech B	Tennessee Tech	72	-5
Sicheng Jiang	Toronto H	Queen's A	73	10
Nikola Wu	UCLA D	UCSD A	74	10
Dmitri Anh-Minh Tran	UC Santa Barbara	UCLA B	75	10
Johnny Myers	Williams B	MIT A	75	10
Darren Kellis	Vanderbilt A	Clemson A	75	10
Joseph Wang	UCLA E	UCLA F	77	10
Eric Morshed	Johns Hopkins	Stony Brook	77	10
Alex Wong	Rutgers D	Vassar A	77	10
Doug Frederick	Auburn A	Emory A	77	10
Harry Barsan	Louisville C	WVU B	78	10
John Shelly	Rowan	NYU C	78	10
Micah Lauzon	Dartmouth B	Brandeis Mozart	78	10
Eames Weeks	Brown A	Tufts A	78	10
James Haddix	Washington State	Arizona State B	78	10
Sean Gao	Toronto E	Toronto G	79	10
Joshua Lam	Ohio State B	Ohio State A	79	10
Matthew Bucek	George Mason A	Rutgers A	79	10
Sophia Peng	Rutgers C	Columbia B	79	10
Colette Giezentanner	WashU Grizzlers	Purdue B	79	10
Thomas Newill	Tufts C	Boston University B	79	10
Taisia Kudimova-Campeanu	Imperial D	Bristol	79	10
Saleena Livera	Imperial B	Cambridge D	79	10
Henry Siegler	Toronto D	Toronto C	80	10
Cole Hennessy	UCF A	Florida A	80	10
Camden Walker	WashU Grolars	Chicago A	80	-5
David Black	Illinois Champaign	Illinois Orange	80	10
Alden Thompson	Carleton A	Ottawa C	81	10
Christian Humeniuk	McMaster A	Waterloo A	81	10
Kevin Zheng	Michigan A	Michigan State A	81	10
Emmet Ewing	Michigan State B	Michigan C	81	10
Nathan Zhao	Maryland B	NYU A	81	10
Tishe Sonuga	Chicago B	Illinois Canada	81	10
Anne Fjeld	Alberta A	Washington Chum	81	-5
Charlotte Bauer	McGill C	Ottawa B	82	10
Andrew Miller	Binghamton A	Cornell A	83	10
Britton Webster	Alabama A	Tennessee A	86	10
Charlie Ruff	McGill A	Ottawa A	87	10
Austin Tran	Rose-Hulman A	Iowa A	87	10
Sebastian Llaca	Wisconsin A	Iowa State	87	10
Joyann Hua	British Columbia B	Washington Sockeye	87	10
Jolie Yeh	Warwick	Cambridge E	87	10
Ethan Ririe	UCSD B	Claremont A	89	10
Samarth Majmudar	Illinois Urbana	William Woods University A	89	10
Abhinav Dinesh	LSE	Cambridge C	89	10
Annoshae Mirza	Berkeley Archer Queen	Stanford B	90	10
Jackson Crickard	Claremont B	UCLA C	91	10
Ellen Ge	Toronto A	Toronto B	91	10
David Ropp	Duke A	William & Mary C	91	10
Faraz Foroughi	NCSU A	Virginia Tech A	91	10
Duncan Occhiogrosso	UConn A	Brandeis Bach	91	10
TJ Pickering	Auburn B	Georgia Tech E	91	10
Joshua Iyo	UNC B	UNC D	92	10
Michael Xu	McMaster B	Waterloo B	93	10
Arjun Saulnier	CWRU C	Kentucky	93	10
Brody Johnson	Louisville B	CWRU D	94	10
Rafael Gómez	Amherst B	Boston College B	95	10
Haylee Weisner	Washington Masu	Washington Chinook	95	10
Katherine Mack	UC Irvine	USC B	98	10
Will Jones	Michigan State D	Michigan State C	98	10
Benjamin Turner	York	Durham D	98	10
Fahim Afzal	Cambridge A	Cardiff	98	10
Towery McNeil	Mississippi State A	Vanderbilt C	99	10
Alice Groth	Durham B	Edinburgh D	99	10
Martin Brandenburg	Georgia A	Georgia Tech F	100	10
Johanna Bryant	Liberty A	JMU A	101	10
Nick Smemoe	UNC A	Virginia A	101	10
Ben Mowery	Vermont A	Boston University A	101	10
Harry Sexton	Edinburgh A	Edinburgh B	101	10
Charlie Castleton	Sheffield A	Edinburgh C	101	10
Luke Simon	Alberta B	Washington Coho	102	10
Fern Fang	VCU A	UNC C	104	10
Alan Zhang	British Columbia C	British Columbia A	104	10
Alexandra Knight	Liberty B	Tusculum A	107	10
Naayaz Hashim	Oxford	Imperial C	108	10
Taiki Takahashi	Dartmouth C	Brandeis Beethoven	109	10
Madeline Painter	Georgia Tech D	Clemson B	110	10
Nelson Adams-Riley	Sewanne	Montevallo	110	10
Bethany Howard	Imperial A	Birmingham	110	10
Anna Bocook	Louisville D	Pittsburgh	111	10
Ariyan Miah	Binghamton B	ESF	111	10
Vincent Misterkiewicz	Cornell C	Binghamton C	111	10
Valentina Chamandy	McGill E	Carleton B	112	10
Alex Grigoriades	Lehigh A	Lehigh B	112	10
Kyle Hart	MIT B	Harvard	112	10
Dylan Steptoe	Guelph A	Waterloo C	114	10
Miranda Chen	Vassar B	George Mason C	114	10
Imtiaz Kidwai	Toronto F	Toronto I	115	10
Ishan Chahande	Ohio State D	WVU A	115	10
Levan Tsiskarisvili	JMU B	NCSU B	115	10
Magnolia Schnirman Barría	NYU B	Columbia A	115	10
Saswat Sasha Tripathi	Chicago A	WashU Grolars	115	10
Annabelle Koopmans	Washington Atlantic	Boise State	115	10
Uriah Lee	Sheffield B	Durham A	115	10
Nick Machin	UCLA A	Claremont C	116	0
Ethan Enochian	Purdue D	Indiana B	116	10
Blake Johnson	Boston College A	Brown B	116	10
Tri Lam	Washington Chum	Alberta A	116	10
Abby Tipton	Auburn C	Vanderbilt B	116	10
Daniel Slater	Tennessee Tech	Georgia Tech B	116	10
Jason Cottle	Clemson C	Tennessee B	116	10
Daniel Hobba	Cambridge B	Southampton	116	10
Ben Gardberg	Cornell B	Rochester	116	10

Summary

Tournament	Edition	TUH	Conv. %	Neg %	Average Buzz
UK (North)	UK	5	100%	20%	102.80
UK (South)	UK	8	100%	13%	95.75
Northern California	US	1	100%	0%	90.00
Southern California	US	7	86%	29%	84.00
Eastern Canada (1)	US	5	100%	0%	83.60
Eastern Canada (2)	US	8	100%	25%	90.75
Florida	US	1	100%	0%	80.00
Great Lakes	US	12	100%	0%	84.08
Lower Mid-Atlantic	US	9	100%	22%	96.78
Upper Mid-Atlantic	US	12	100%	0%	82.17
Midwest	US	9	100%	11%	85.56
North	US	1	100%	0%	87.00
Northeast	US	12	100%	8%	87.42
Pacific	US	9	100%	11%	86.11
Southeast	US	13	100%	8%	92.00
Upstate NY	US	5	100%	0%	94.40