Question

Note to players: Description acceptable. In this essay, a “gray shade” is imagined lamenting the narrator's dissoluteness with lines like “the degenerate fellow might as well have been a fiddler!” Its narrator asserts that the words “I'll try, Sir!” would be “the best and fittest of all mottoes” for General Miller, after earlier praising the ability to “recollect good dinners” exhibited by (15[1])a man who otherwise had “no soul, no heart, no mind, nothing [...] but instincts.” This essay describes how moonlight helps turn a room into (15[1])a “neutral territory” (15[1]-5[1])where the (*) “Actual and the Imaginary (-5[1])may meet.” This essay's narrator finds a package of manuscripts (10[1])by Jonathan (10[1]-5[1])Pue (10[3]-5[2])that also (10[1])contains a cloth (10[2])that burns (10[1])his breast. (10[1])The narrator describes working in the port of Salem (10[1])in, for 10 points, (10[1])what essay (10[2])that leads into Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel (10[2])about Hester Prynne? ■END■ (10[4]0[1])

ANSWER: “The Custom-House” [accept answers that describe an introductory essay/sketch or introduction or preface or prologue to The Scarlet Letter; reject answers that suggest “first chapter” or similar]
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Summary

2023 BHSU @ Northwestern02/25/2023Y683%17%33%115.00
2023 BHSU @ Maryland03/11/2023Y3100%0%33%121.67
2023 BHSU @ Berkeley03/18/2023Y3100%0%33%108.33
2023 BHSU @ Yale04/08/2023Y3100%33%0%101.33
2023 BHSU Online04/15/2023Y4100%25%0%117.50
2023 BHSU @ Sheffield04/15/2023Y2100%0%0%137.00
2023 BHSU @ Waterloo04/15/2023Y3100%0%33%130.33

Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Jordan BrownsteinBrownstein et al.Mojo Shojo6115
Adam Silvermannats is supposed to mean you all have gone softOlmo (Bonus) Bagelry8615
Nathan ZhangHutto HipposThe Enrique Trastamara Military Academy B8915
Milan FernandezMilan et al.Neg 5! Playing Quizbowl, Liddy Style89-5
Grant PeetGlass Onyen: A Knives Out MysteryThe Perfection of Wisdom in 8,000 Negs95-5
Walter ZhangUG Championship Players (and Mazin)Columbia B10510
Eve FleisigBerkeley A[Insert Lawyer Joke Here]10710
Stephen Liu[Insert Lawyer Joke Here]Berkeley A107-5
Tim MorrisonStanford AIt's Joever10810
Connor MayersMaryland AFan-tastic Negs and Where to Find Them10810
Mitch McCullarIllinoisAmartya Senpai Notice Me108-5
Chris SimsNorthwesternEpic Games108-5
Matt JacksonChicago AOSU10810
Anuttam RamjiBerkeley BStanford B11010
Ash SeetharamanHouston and friendsWhat is BH! And you are asking me? BHSU11310
Rahul KeyalWatching Arthur Delot-Vilain at Chicago Open Made Me Like French People Againmeet the new weird, same as the old weird11310
Jonathan MaginMaryland B+Rutgers Diaspora11510
David SnoddonParth et al.Cameron et al.11710
Charles HangWUSTLMichigan12610
Richard NiuCornell B-Cornell C++13010
KrolMagisters LudiBroken Imperial Nomads13210
Tony ChenThe Passion According to C.H.The Vulture's Guide to Buzz13210
Alston BoydChicago B+Purdue University Fightin' Hadrien Davids13810
Jonathen SettleDr. Christopher Manners, MD – Samarra, IraqRollin in from Sturgis, The Cheyne Gang13810
Eric GunterThe Perfection of Wisdom in 8,000 NegsGlass Onyen: A Knives Out Mystery14210
Jason AsherEpic GamesNorthwestern1420
John LawrenceAmartya Senpai Notice MeIllinois14210
BenBuzzers KaramazovOxford Hornets14210
Henry AtkinsNeg 5! Playing Quizbowl, Liddy StyleMilan et al.14210