Question
In a 2024 novel titled for this word, Misery Lark marries the Alpha Lowe Moreland in order to maintain a peacekeeping alliance between vampires and werewolves. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this word. This is also the last word in the title of a classic metafictional William Goldman novel in which a man in black challenges a Sicilian criminal to a Battle of the Wits.
ANSWER: Bride [accept The Princess Bride]
[10h] 2024’s Bride was written by this author, whose experience as a neuroscience professor inspired her to write romance novels centering on women in STEM. Olive pretends to date her professor Adam in a bestseller by this author.
ANSWER: Ali Hazelwood
[10e] A version of Hazelwood’s bestselling book The Love Hypothesis was originally published on this website, a competitor of FanFiction.net and Wattpad. This fanfiction site’s name is often shortened to two letters and a number.
ANSWER: Archive of Our Own [or AO3] (The Love Hypothesis was originally Reylo fanfic!)
<JC, Trash Lit>
Data
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Downtown Freddie Brown | Last Among | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Laniel Automatic Pinball School | Untitled HONK! Team | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| NieR: Nǃxau ǂTomata | not overly fond of geese | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| No Longer Free Agents | Kermit to the Bit | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Nosfera2: The Return of Bill Skarsgard | We'd Rather Be at SawCon | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Skibidiallo Rizzirkzee | honk tuah and squawk on that wing | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| THE SIXTH SENSE | The of us | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Tosca Trio | Fill in the _______ | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| gaslight gatekeep girlbuzz | FDA Poop Experiments | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| womt | The Holdovers | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Exact Match? | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 HONK! @ Waterloo | 2024-08-03 | Y | 8 | 22.50 | 100% | 100% | 25% |
| 2024 HONK! @ Carleton | 2024-10-20 | Y | 4 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2024 HONK! @ Syracuse | 2024-12-07 | Y | 4 | 20.00 | 100% | 75% | 25% |
| 2025 HONK! @ Online | 2025-03-09 | Y | 10 | 25.00 | 100% | 90% | 60% |