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Martin steals what he believes to be a long-lost Pieter Breughel (“BROY-gull”) painting in this author’s novel Headlong. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this British author, who wrote a play in which the actress Dotty Otley has difficulty remembering what to do with the prop of a plate of sardines while starring in a play directed by Lloyd Dallas.
ANSWER: Michael Frayn (The play is Noises Off.)
[10e] Several characters try to steal a cow creamer that people keep wrongly insisting is Dutch in The Code of the Woosters, a novel by this creator of the valet Jeeves.
ANSWER: P. G. Wodehouse (“wood-house”) [or Pelham Granville Wodehouse]
[10h] In this far less comical novel, Freddie Montgomery bludgeons a housemaid to death with a hammer when she catches him stealing a painting by a Dutch master. This novel is the first in John Banville’s Frames Trilogy.
ANSWER: The Book of Evidence
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TournamentExact Match?HeardPPBEasy %Medium %Hard %
2025 ACF NationalsYes2113.8191%43%5%