John Updike - 2026 ACF Regionals

Packet C: Tossup 1

In a story by this author, a college student shares an emotionally intimate night with the girl Margaret while driving home for winter vacation. This author curated the anthology The Best American Short Stories of the Century, penned the story “The Happiest I’ve Been,” (-5[1])and wrote three collections about (-5[1])the writer (-5[1])Henry Bech. A story by this (10[1])author ends with the protagonist reflecting on “how hard the world was going (10[1])to be to me (10[1])hereafter” (10[3])as he stands (10[1])in a parking lot, (10[2]-5[1])unable (-5[1])to find characters nicknamed Plaid, Queenie, (-5[1])and Big Tall (10[4])Goony-Goony. (10[3]-5[1])The protagonist (-5[1])abruptly quits (10[1])when his boss (10[2])Lengel (10[1])chews out three girls for shopping (10[2])in bathing (10[1])suits (10[5]-5[1])in this (10[1])author’s (10[1]-5[1])story (10[4])“A&P.” (10[1]-5[2])For 10 points, (10[1])what author created the former high school basketball (10[1])star (10[3])Harry (10[1])Angstrom (10[6]-5[1])in (-5[2])Rabbit, (10[1])Run? (10[4])■END■ (10[7]0[10])

ANSWER: John Updike [or John Hoyer Updike]

<TM, American Literature> | Packet C - Virginia Tech A, Waterloo A, UCSD A, UBC A

= Average correct buzzpoint

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Buzzes

Player	Team	Opponent	Buzzpoint	Value
Jack Rado	Columbia B	Johns Hopkins A	43	-5
Christopher Bradley	Southern Connecticut State	MIT	48	-5
Ali Hamzeh	Edinburgh A	Oxford C	50	-5
Evan Schleck	Georgetown	Maryland C	56	10
Thomas Tibbetts	Central Florida C	Florida A	69	10
Raymond Chen	Toronto B	Toronto E	73	10
Henry Siegler	Toronto G	Carleton University	74	10
Alvin Guo	Chicago A	Purdue B	74	10
Philip Yao	Brown	Harvard B	74	10
Jakob Meyers	Indiana A	Northwestern C	77	10
William Orr	Yale	Brandeis A	81	10
Kevin Wang	Georgia Tech A	Claremont	81	10
Oscar Despard	Cambridge A	Warwick B	81	-5
Andrew Wang	Illinois A	Chicago D	82	-5
Moses Kitakule	Columbia A	Vassar	88	-5
Anuttam Ramji	Berkeley B	Berkeley C	91	10
Ariel Faeder	Pittsburgh	Ohio State C	91	10
Eshan Pant	NYU A	Johns Hopkins B	91	10
Mitch McCullar	Penn State	Rochester	91	10
Swapnil Garg	Berkeley A	Stanford B	92	10
Andrew Zeng	Stanford A	Berkeley D	92	10
Charles Hang	WashU A	Tennessee A	92	10
Alan Hughes	UCL	Cambridge B	92	-5
Yashwanth Bajji	Michigan A	CWRU B	94	-5
Zach Tseng	Georgia Tech C	Alabama B	96	10
Braden Booth	Missouri A	Carleton College	99	10
Jisoo Yoo	Texas A	Murray State A	99	10
Alex Thomas	Georgia Tech B	Alabama A	100	10
Rohan Navaneetha Raj	Ohio State B	Michigan B	106	10
Nolan Jones	Purdue A	Chicago B	106	10
Sinecio Morales	Johns Hopkins A	Columbia B	108	10
Milan Fernandez	Brock	McGill A	109	10
Raymond Jiang	Illinois C	Illinois B	109	10
Jacob Finley	Notre Dame A	Indiana B	109	10
Lucas Barnes	Missouri B	Washington A	109	10
Dwight Solano	Texas A&M A	Texas B	109	-5
Michael Wu	Southampton A	Cardiff	109	10
Adil Soubki	Cambridge C	Imperial C	111	10
Beckett Gillmore	Louisville B	Sewanee	112	-5
Gannon Smith	Maryland B	John Jay	112	10
Carter Pisocky	Michigan C	Michigan State	113	10
Rohan Ganeshan	Harvard A	Dartmouth B	113	10
Jack Lewis	Bruin	Georgia Tech D	113	10
Rishi Pendyala	Cornell C	Binghamton A	113	10
Kevin Ye	Simon Fraser	Western B	114	-5
Andrew Amygdalos	CWRU A	Ohio State A	114	10
Elliott Gomes	Dartmouth A	Bowdoin A	114	-5
Cole Hennessy	Central Florida A	Central Florida B	117	10
Antoni Kluzowski	Warwick A	Birmingham	125	10
Towery McNeil	Mississipi State	Tennessee B	126	10
Ben Hellman	Swarthmore	NYU C	126	10
Cade Reinberger	RIT	Cornell B	126	10
Carson Kessler	Washington B	Iowa State	127	10
Gabriel McMurren	Guelph	Western A	128	10
Charlotte Bauer	McGill B	Waterloo B	128	-5
Stephen Walsh	Northwestern B	Chicago C	128	10
Sam Kemeny	Brandeis B	Bowdoin B	128	10
Albert Nyang	LSE	Edinburgh B	128	10
Krishna Girish	Montpellier	Manchester	128	10
Mattias Ehatamm	Maryland A	Columbia C	128	10
Christian Humeniuk	McMaster A	Western C	129	-5
Eveline Ong	Oxford A	Bristol	129	-5
Olivia Kiser	Kentucky	Vanderbilt B	130	10
Rayton Lin	Waterloo B	McGill B	131	10
Andrew McCowan	Queen's	Toronto Metropolitan	131	10
Tai Belke	UBC B	Toronto C	131	10
Jacob Price	Cambridge B	UCL	131	10
Jack Trott-McDermott	Western C	McMaster A	132	0
Jesse Chusing	Ottawa	McMaster B	132	10
Angelo Pan	CWRU B	Michigan A	132	0
Kaiden Webb	Chicago D	Illinois A	132	10
Noah McRedmond	Notre Dame B	Indiana C	132	10
Neiman Mocombe	Bowdoin A	Dartmouth A	132	0
Henry Jiang	MIT	Southern Connecticut State	132	10
Keerthana Krishnan	Texas B	Texas A&M A	132	10
Ted Warner	Bristol	Oxford A	132	10
Zach Foster	City St. George's	Oxford B	132	0
Arthur Bellamy	Oxford B	City St. George's	132	0
Matteo Fronduti	Durham	Imperial A	132	10
Nathan Long	Imperial B	Southampton B	132	0
Roselyn Daffin	Southampton B	Imperial B	132	0
William Gillard	Warwick B	Cambridge A	132	0
Julian Bushlow	Cornell A	Binghamton B	132	0
Eli O'Sick Johnson	Binghamton B	Cornell A	132	0

Summary

Tournament	Edition	Match	Heard	Conv. %	Neg %	Avg. Buzz
California (North)	Main Site	✓	3	100%	0%	91.67
Canada	Main Site	✓	10	80%	30%	113.63
Florida	Main Site	✓	3	67%	0%	93.00
Great Lakes	Main Site	✓	5	80%	20%	106.00
Midwest	Main Site	✓	8	100%	13%	108.38
Northeast	Main Site	✓	6	83%	33%	105.60
Overflow	Main Site	✓	4	100%	0%	104.00
South Central	Main Site	✓	2	100%	50%	115.50
Southeast	Main Site	✓	7	86%	14%	109.50
UK	Main Site	✓	12	67%	33%	124.50
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	✓	8	75%	25%	103.50
Upstate NY	Main Site	✓	4	75%	0%	110.00