Round 10: Tossup 15

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

ANSWER: Salman Rushdie [or Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie] (The first line refers to Haroun and the Sea of Stories.)
<Editors, British Literature> | Packet K
= Average correct buzzpoint

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Buzzes


Summary

TournamentEditionMatchHeardConv. %Neg %Avg. Buzz
Northern CaliforniaMain1100%0%90.00
Southern CaliforniaMain786%29%84.00
Eastern Canada (1)Main5100%0%83.60
Eastern Canada (2)Main8100%25%90.75
FloridaMain1100%0%80.00
Great LakesMain12100%0%84.08
Lower Mid-AtlanticMain9100%22%96.78
Upper Mid-AtlanticMain12100%0%82.17
MidwestMain9100%11%85.56
NorthMain1100%0%87.00
NortheastMain12100%8%87.42
PacificMain9100%11%86.11
South CentralMain4100%25%83.00
SoutheastMain13100%8%92.00
Upstate NYMain5100%0%94.40
UK (North)UK5100%20%102.80
UK (South)UK8100%13%95.75