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 a man who otherwise had “no soul, no heart, no mind, nothing [...] but instincts.” This essay describes how moonlight helps turn a room into a “neutral territory” where the (*) “Actual and the Imaginary may meet.” This essay's narrator finds a package of manuscripts by Jonathan Pue that also contains a cloth that burns his breast. The narrator describes working in the port of Salem in, for 10 points, what essay that leads into Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel about Hester Prynne? ■END■
Summary
2023 BHSU @ Northwestern | 02/25/2023 | Y | 6 | 83% | 17% | 33% | 115.00 |
2023 BHSU @ Maryland | 03/11/2023 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 121.67 |
2023 BHSU @ Berkeley | 03/18/2023 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 108.33 |
2023 BHSU @ Yale | 04/08/2023 | Y | 3 | 100% | 33% | 0% | 101.33 |
2023 BHSU Online | 04/15/2023 | Y | 4 | 100% | 25% | 0% | 117.50 |
2023 BHSU @ Sheffield | 04/15/2023 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 137.00 |
2023 BHSU @ Waterloo | 04/15/2023 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 130.33 |
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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Jordan Brownstein | Brownstein et al. | Mojo Shojo | 61 | 15 |
Adam Silverman | nats is supposed to mean you all have gone soft | Olmo (Bonus) Bagelry | 86 | 15 |
Nathan Zhang | Hutto Hippos | The Enrique Trastamara Military Academy B | 89 | 15 |
Milan Fernandez | Milan et al. | Neg 5! Playing Quizbowl, Liddy Style | 89 | -5 |
Grant Peet | Glass Onyen: A Knives Out Mystery | The Perfection of Wisdom in 8,000 Negs | 95 | -5 |
Walter Zhang | UG Championship Players (and Mazin) | Columbia B | 105 | 10 |
Eve Fleisig | Berkeley A | [Insert Lawyer Joke Here] | 107 | 10 |
Stephen Liu | [Insert Lawyer Joke Here] | Berkeley A | 107 | -5 |
Tim Morrison | Stanford A | It's Joever | 108 | 10 |
Connor Mayers | Maryland A | Fan-tastic Negs and Where to Find Them | 108 | 10 |
Mitch McCullar | Illinois | Amartya Senpai Notice Me | 108 | -5 |
Chris Sims | Northwestern | Epic Games | 108 | -5 |
Matt Jackson | Chicago A | OSU | 108 | 10 |
Anuttam Ramji | Berkeley B | Stanford B | 110 | 10 |
Ash Seetharaman | Houston and friends | What is BH! And you are asking me? BHSU | 113 | 10 |
Rahul Keyal | Watching Arthur Delot-Vilain at Chicago Open Made Me Like French People Again | meet the new weird, same as the old weird | 113 | 10 |
Jonathan Magin | Maryland B+ | Rutgers Diaspora | 115 | 10 |
David Snoddon | Parth et al. | Cameron et al. | 117 | 10 |
Charles Hang | WUSTL | Michigan | 126 | 10 |
Richard Niu | Cornell B- | Cornell C++ | 130 | 10 |
Krol | Magisters Ludi | Broken Imperial Nomads | 132 | 10 |
Tony Chen | The Passion According to C.H. | The Vulture's Guide to Buzz | 132 | 10 |
Alston Boyd | Chicago B+ | Purdue University Fightin' Hadrien Davids | 138 | 10 |
Jonathen Settle | Dr. Christopher Manners, MD – Samarra, Iraq | Rollin in from Sturgis, The Cheyne Gang | 138 | 10 |
Eric Gunter | The Perfection of Wisdom in 8,000 Negs | Glass Onyen: A Knives Out Mystery | 142 | 10 |
Jason Asher | Epic Games | Northwestern | 142 | 0 |
John Lawrence | Amartya Senpai Notice Me | Illinois | 142 | 10 |
Ben | Buzzers Karamazov | Oxford Hornets | 142 | 10 |
Henry Atkins | Neg 5! Playing Quizbowl, Liddy Style | Milan et al. | 142 | 10 |