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. A character with this first name adopts a toddler after her mother Molly passes out and dies in the snow. A character with this first name titles a novel satirizing “rags to riches” stories by (*) William Dean Howells. After crushing the horse Wildfire, Godfrey steals two bags of gold from a character with this first name who was falsely expelled from a Lantern Yard church for theft. For 10 points, give this first name of a “weaver of Raveloe” in a novel by George Eliot, whose surname is Marner. ■END■
ANSWER: Silas [accept Silas Lapham or Silas Marner; accept The Rise of Silas Lapham]
<Ganon Evans, Literature - World and Miscellaneous> ~26138~ <Editor: Jim Fan>
= Average correct buzz position
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Summary
Tournament | Edition | Exact Match? | TUH | Conv. % | Power % | Neg % | Average Buzz |
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2024 PACE NSC | 06/08/2024 | Y | 34 | 100% | 41% | 0% | 87.35 |