Zadie Smith - 2025 ACF Regionals

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This author called growing older “the great unsexing” in an essay also reflecting on John Berger and Balthasar Denner’s painting Alte Frau. A term originally applied to this author was modified to apply to the overly emotional criticism of Jia Tolentino in Lauren Oyler’s essay “Ha ha! Ha ha!” This author critiqued (10[1])Justin Bieber, the films Anomalisa and Get Out, and Dana Schutz’s Open (10[1])Casket in the 2018 essay collection Feel Free. This author wrote about the housekeeper of William Harrison Ainsworth observing the Tichborne case in her 2023 (10[2])novel (10[4])The Fraud. (10[5])James Wood (10[1])coined the term (10[3])“hysterical (10[1])realism” (10[3])to describe a 2000 novel by this author (10[1])featuring the Londoners (10[1])Samad (10[1])Iqbal and Archie (10[2]-5[1])Jones. (10[5])For 10 points, name (10[1])this contemporary British author of White Teeth. (10[1])■END■ (10[3]0[2])

ANSWER: Zadie Smith (Oyler used the term “hysterical criticism” to describe the work of Tolentino, borrowing Wood’s term “hysterical realism.”)

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Player	Team	Opponent	Position	Value
Jakob Myers	Indiana A	Missouri	51	10
Swapnil Garg	UC Berkeley A	UCLA	63	10
Anuttam Ramji	UC Berkeley B	Claremont B	88	10
Richard Niu	Cornell B	George Washington A	88	10
Kayla Drajpuch	Brandeis A	Dartmouth A	89	10
Kevin Wang	Georgia Tech C	Bruin A	89	10
William Orr	Yale A	Haverford A	89	10
Gus Vanskike	Maryland B	John Jay College	89	10
Noah Chin	Virginia Tech A	Virginia A	91	10
Megan Ha	Chicago C	WashU A	91	10
Albert Nyang	LSE	Imperial B	91	10
Benjamin Watson	Oxford C	Southampton A	91	10
Emily Bussa	Maryland A	Penn B	91	10
Ben LaFond	Cambridge B	Cambridge D	93	10
Neal Joshi	WashU B	Chicago D	96	10
Ned Tagtmeier	Chicago A	Missouri S&T	96	10
Ryan Rosenberg	NYU A	George Washington B	96	10
Arya Karthik	Oxford A	Warwick B	97	10
Trenton Burgess	Indiana B	Chicago B	98	10
Arjun Kala	Illinois B	Illinois C	98	10
Bryan Ugaz	ASU	Texas B	98	10
Jisoo Yoo	Texas A	TAMU	106	10
Jacob Price	Sheffield	Bristol	109	10
Aum Mundhe	Rutgers A	NYU B	110	10
Kevin Park	Claremont A	UCSD	113	10
Arjun Nageswaran	Harvard A	BU	113	-5
Yaj Jhajhria	UW B	Alberta	113	10
Chris Yoo	William & Mary	Liberty C	114	10
Yrwin Batan	MIT A	Brandeis B	114	10
Khugan Chan	UMass Boston	Tufts A	114	10
Tai Belke	UBC	UW A	114	10
Sam Macchi	Vassar A	Columbia C	114	10
Ivan Stanisavljevic	Duke	UNC D	118	10
Ivvone Zhou	Penn A	Haverford B	125	10
Josh Schmidt	Liberty A	Liberty B	126	10
Crow He	UNC B	UNC C	126	10
Robert Freeman	South Carolina	Wake Forest	126	0
Max Neal	Harvard B	Brown A	126	10
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Tournament	Edition	TUH	Conv. %	Neg %	Average Buzz
California	2025-02-01	3	100%	0%	88.00
Lower Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	6	83%	0%	115.00
Midwest	2025-02-01	6	100%	0%	88.33
Northeast	2025-02-01	5	80%	20%	110.75
Pacific Northwest	2025-02-01	2	100%	0%	113.50
South Central	2025-02-01	2	100%	0%	102.00
Southeast	2025-02-01	1	100%	0%	89.00
UK	2025-02-01	5	100%	0%	96.20
Upper Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	8	100%	0%	100.25