Question
In this book, a woman sends a drawing of an umbrella to express her disappointment with the narrator, who replies with a drawing of heavy rainfall. This book contains an allegory about a dog that is beaten unconscious and left on the street for barking at a popular cat. A parody called the “Dog” version of this book was published alongside “Mad Verses.” This book opens with passages beginning “In spring, the dawn…in (*) summer, the evenings,” which list the best time of day to view each of the four seasons.. This book includes people blowing their nose while speaking among “things that give a pathetic impression,” which joins sections like “Elegant Things” and “Hateful Things” among this book’s many lists. For 10 points, name this book of musings about court life in the Heian era, written by Sei Shonagon. ■END■
Summary
2023 BHSU @ Northwestern | 02/25/2023 | N | 6 | 100% | 33% | 17% | 91.33 |
2023 BHSU @ Maryland | 03/11/2023 | N | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 96.67 |
2023 BHSU @ Berkeley | 03/18/2023 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 101.67 |
2023 BHSU @ Yale | 04/08/2023 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 102.00 |
2023 BHSU @ Waterloo | 04/15/2023 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 118.67 |
2023 BHSU Online | 04/15/2023 | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 111.25 |
2023 BHSU @ Sheffield | 04/15/2023 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 50% | 122.00 |
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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Raymond Wang | Hutto Hippos | The Enrique Trastamara Military Academy B | 94 | 10 |
Eric Wolfsberg | It's Joever | Stanford A | 96 | 10 |
Adam Silverman | nats is supposed to mean you all have gone soft | Olmo (Bonus) Bagelry | 100 | 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 | 102 | 10 |
Jason Golfinos | [Insert Lawyer Joke Here] | Berkeley A | 104 | 10 |
Daniel Sheinberg | UG Championship Players (and Mazin) | Columbia B | 104 | 10 |
Anuttam Ramji | Berkeley B | Stanford B | 105 | 10 |
Chris Manners | Dr. Christopher Manners, MD – Samarra, Iraq | Rollin in from Sturgis, The Cheyne Gang | 105 | 10 |
Krol | Magisters Ludi | Broken Imperial Nomads | 105 | 10 |
Andrej Vukovic | Cameron et al. | Parth et al. | 110 | 10 |
Omer | Oxford Hornets | Buzzers Karamazov | 113 | -5 |
Tony Chen | The Passion According to C.H. | The Vulture's Guide to Buzz | 114 | 10 |
King Vidor | What is BH! And you are asking me? BHSU | Houston and friends | 116 | 10 |
Richard Niu | Cornell B- | Cornell C++ | 130 | 10 |
Gareth Thorlakson | Neg 5! Playing Quizbowl, Liddy Style | Milan et al. | 132 | 10 |
Ben | Buzzers Karamazov | Oxford Hornets | 139 | 10 |