Bonus

A character in this novel unknowingly models for the likeness of an android under the guise of sitting for a portrait. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this novel whose title character serves as an Artificial Friend to the sickly child Rosie and sabotages a construction machine.
ANSWER: Klara and the Sun
[10e] Klara and the Sun is by this Japanese-British author, whose other science fiction and fantasy novels include The Buried Giant and Never Let Me Go.
ANSWER: Kazuo Ishiguro
[10h] The plot of Klara and the Sun is paralleled by this author’s 1944 novel Sirius, in which a hyper-intelligent dog becomes the companion of the girl Plaxy. This British sci-fi novelist explored evolution over long time scales in Starmaker and Last and First Men.
ANSWER: Olaf Stapledon [or William Olaf Stapledon]
<UW B, British Literature>

EditionsHeardPPBEasy %Medium %Hard %
11318.46100%77%8%

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Conversion

TeamOpponentPart 1Part 2Part 3TotalParts
Cambridge CWarwick A1010020ME
Chicago AIllinois A010010E
Columbia BNYU A1010020ME
Columbia CHaverford A1010020ME
Georgia Tech AGeorgia Tech C010010E
Illinois BChicago D1010020ME
MIT ATufts A1010020ME
MissouriWashU B1010020ME
Notre Dame AStanford B010010E
Oxford ASouthampton A1010020ME
Texas ATexas B10101030MEH
UC Berkeley BUC Berkeley A1010020ME
Virginia ASouth Carolina1010020ME

Summary

TournamentEditionHeardPPBEasy %Medium %Hard %
California2025-02-01120.00100%100%0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic2025-02-01120.00100%100%0%
Midwest2025-02-01316.67100%67%0%
Northeast2025-02-01120.00100%100%0%
Overflow2025-02-01110.00100%0%0%
South Central2025-02-01130.00100%100%100%
Southeast2025-02-01110.00100%0%0%
UK2025-02-01220.00100%100%0%
Upper Mid-Atlantic2025-02-01220.00100%100%0%