Question

A title character with this first name builds a home in the Back Bay neighborhood and refuses to support Milton Rogers’s fake mill. That character with this first name attempts to marry his daughter Irene to the bourgeois Tom Corey. (20[1])A character with this first name adopts a toddler after her mother Molly (20[2])passes (20[1])out (20[1])and (20[1])dies in the snow. (20[5])A character with this (20[1])first (20[1])name titles a novel satirizing “rags to riches” (20[1])stories by (*) William Dean Howells. (10[1])After crushing the horse Wildfire, (10[1])Godfrey steals (10[1])two (10[1])bags of gold from a character with this (10[1])first (10[1])name (10[2])who was falsely (10[1])expelled from a Lantern Yard church for theft. For 10 points, (10[1])give this first name of a “weaver (10[1])of Raveloe” (10[1])in a novel by George Eliot, whose (10[1])surname is Marner. (10[3])■END■ (10[4])

ANSWER: Silas [accept Silas Lapham or Silas Marner; accept The Rise of Silas Lapham]
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Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Hazel DePreist-SullivanHastingsLivingston A3920
Arnav LahotiSt. Mark'sBarrington5220
Ben NewmanUniversity LabHunter A5220
Stephen McCollumHoover ALambert5320
Maya PujaraFairfield County ATCincinnati Hills5420
Kevin WangJohns Creek ARichard Montgomery A5520
Aiva RudolphLindberghInnovation Academy B5920
Anthony XuThomas Jefferson CLightridge5920
Adam WilliamsNorthmont ACanyon Crest5920
Alex ZhangOkemosWest Point5920
Keerthana KrishnanSeven LakesWalter Payton A5920
Nick MurrayDetroit Catholic Central ARichard Montgomery B6320
Kevin YangStevenson ADurham AT6420
Justin WangStrake JesuitJohns Creek B7220
Dwij BhattWilliam FremdAlabama Cyber Tech7710
Dominic ApapDetroit Catholic Central BSt. Thomas8210
Soren GjesfjeldBloomingtonCarbondale8410
Abigail LeeThomas Jefferson BDowningtown STEM8510
Arav KaushikLivingston BMaggie Walker A9310
Bryce CruiseHeightsBelmont9410
Akilan GanesanChattahoocheeDuPage County AT9510
Travis JohnsonGreat ValleyMcLean A9510
Beckett GilmoreOwensboroWalter Payton B9810
Krish ChintaInnovation Academy AWinston Churchill A10910
Abigail CutugnoBeavercreekMcLean B11610
Angela SunSolonWinston Churchill B11810
Bladen KiddMaggie Walker BFreeman12510
Brandon TorresCarl SandburgStevenson B12810
Saral SapkotaElkhorn NorthNorfolk Academic Guild12810
Chris YooThomas Jefferson AKinkaid12810
Joseph HarrisonDetroit Catholic Central CHunter B12910
Ben HellmanGeorgetown DayThomas Jefferson D12910
Teddy BerenteSaint JosephMaggie Walker C12910
Nathan HaleyNorthmont BMexico12910

Summary

TournamentEditionExact Match?TUHConv. %Power %Neg %Average Buzz
2024 PACE NSC06/08/2024Y34100%41%0%87.35