Question

In a novel by this author, a half-written story discarded by a humorist continues on its own, describing how a sudden appearance of a hat causes chaos in a Southwestern town. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this author of Sombrero Fallout. In a gothic western by this author, Magic Child hires two hitmen to kill a monster living in ice caves beneath her house, which is affected by mysterious “Chemicals.”
ANSWER: Richard Brautigan [or Richard Gary Brautigan] (The second novel is The Hawkline Monster.)
[10e] In the Sombrero Fallout story, this man joins a bloody war between the town and the Federal government. This author drew on his real war experience to write The Naked and the Dead.
ANSWER: Norman Mailer [or Norman Kingsley Mailer; or Nachem Malech Mailer]
[10m] In this post-apocalyptic Brautigan novel, inBOIL leads a gang at the Forgotten Works after leaving iDEATH, a commune where the title substance is used as a building material.
ANSWER: In Watermelon Sugar
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Data

TeamOpponentPart 1Part 2Part 3Total
Berkeley AWaterloo0101020
Berkeley BKentucky0101020
BrownOttawa010010
Chicago AArizona State0101020
Columbia BChicago D0101020
Georgia TechCornell B0000
HarvardChicago B0000
IllinoisChicago C0101020
Iowa StateIndiana0101020
Johns HopkinsDuke0101020
MarylandTruman State0101020
Minnesota AMcGill0101020
NYURutgers010010
North Carolina AFlorida0101020
North Carolina BToronto B0000
PurdueStanford010010
TexasWUSTL B0101020
Toronto AVirginia0000
VanderbiltPenn010010
WUSTL AMinnesota B0101020
Yale ASouth Carolina010010
Yale BNorthwestern010010

Summary

TournamentEditionExact Match?HeardPPBEasy %Medium %Hard %
2024 ACF Nationals04/21/2024Y2213.6482%55%0%