Question
In a novel, every resident of a crack den in this city is killed by a gang leader styling himself as a Western outlaw, who later dies by fire in prison. Rowdy, dancing shepherds take over this city in “Profane Comedy,” part of an epic poem by the author of Yo-Yo Boing! After leaving Kingston, Josey Wales and the Storm Posse move to this city in Marlon James’s novel A Brief History of Seven Killings. Sophie Caco falls in love with Joseph in this city in (*) Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat (“DAHN-tee-KAH”). Authors like Pedro Pietri and Giannina Braschi have performed at a “Poets Cafe” named for an ethnicity in this city. A Jamaican author who settled in this city in the 1910s described the “murderous, cowardly pack” in his poem “If We Must Die.” For 10 points, Claude McKay contributed to what city’s Harlem Renaissance? ■END■
Summary
2024 ARCADIA at Claremont | 2024-11-02 | Y | 3 | 100% | 67% | 0% | 75.00 |
2024 ARCADIA at Illinois | 2024-11-09 | Y | 4 | 100% | 25% | 25% | 114.25 |
2024 ARCADIA at Waterloo | 2024-11-09 | Y | 7 | 100% | 57% | 0% | 88.86 |
2024 ARCADIA at Penn State | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 133.50 |
2024 ARCADIA at Florida Tech | 2024-12-06 | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 75% | 145.00 |
2024 ARCADIA at BU | 2024-12-06 | Y | 8 | 100% | 38% | 0% | 107.00 |
2024 ARCADIA at GT | 2024-12-06 | Y | 4 | 100% | 25% | 50% | 108.50 |
2024 ARCADIA at Warwick | 2024-12-06 | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 20% | 132.80 |
2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 100% | 100% | 0% | 35.00 |
2024 ARCADIA at Duke | 2024-12-06 | Y | 3 | 100% | 33% | 0% | 99.33 |
2024 ARCADIA at Missouri S&T | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 100% | 100% | 0% | 53.50 |
2024 ARCADIA Online | 2025-05-17 | Y | 5 | 100% | 40% | 40% | 101.40 |
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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Swapnil Garg | Berkeley A | Berkeley Past | 19 | 15 |
William Orr | Yale | Boston College A | 51 | 15 |
Gabe Forrest | Squidward Community College | Truman | 51 | 15 |
Anuttam Ramji | Berkeley B | Stanford | 51 | 15 |
Tony Chen | Toronto A | Toronto Disband the Club 2k24 | 51 | 15 |
Kevin Wang | Georgia Tech A | Innovation Academy A | 51 | 15 |
Andrew Zeng | Madmen and Specialists | Toyota Tundra Turbos — Twisting Truths - Tackling Trivia - Taming Titans | 52 | -5 |
Parth Jagtap | Toronto B | McMaster ApocolocyntosisBidii | 52 | 15 |
Andrew Wang | Illinois Blue | Purdue B | 53 | 15 |
Justine French | U[C]SD | Anderson et al. | 53 | 15 |
Joy An | Harvard | Bowdoin A | 54 | 15 |
Braden Booth | Missouri | WashU | 56 | 15 |
King Vidor | In the Mood for Buzz | Social credit go vroom | 56 | 15 |
Noah Chin | Virginia Tech A | North Carolina B | 60 | 15 |
Joel Miles | Paddington in Peru (2024) | she limp on my waltz till i feel pathetique | 64 | 15 |
Richard Lin | Amherst | Brandeis A | 66 | 15 |
Collin Leck | The cult of SGA | Old and Young | 67 | -5 |
Will Alston | SGV Ventures | ALCU | 68 | 15 |
Akshar Goyal | Illinois Orange | Purdue A | 70 | -5 |
Mattias Ehatamm | Waterloo Aspidistra | Ottawa Absolomabsolomabsolom | 74 | 15 |
Mattias Ehatamm | Waterloo Aspidistra | Ottawa Absolomabsolomabsolom | 74 | 15 |
Manu Sankaran | Lambert | Milton | 74 | -5 |
Seraphina Charlotte Foo | Cambridge A | LSE A | 88 | -5 |
Thomas Tibbetts | UCF A | USF | 91 | -5 |
Quentin Mot | Georgia Tech B | Innovation Academy C | 91 | 10 |
Towery McNeil | Mississippi State | Johns Creek | 91 | -5 |
Andy Huff | LSE B | Bristol | 91 | 10 |
Henry Keating | UCF B | UF C | 95 | -5 |
Yrwin Batan | MIT | Boston College B | 104 | 10 |
Bryan Ugaz | ASU->Stanford->ASU pipeline | bingy academy | 104 | 10 |
Kevin Park | Claremont | Jason et al. | 104 | 10 |
Joey Sun | Toronto Chestnut Rice and Kamehameha | Carleton A | 108 | 10 |
Benjamin McAvoy-Bickford | North Carolina A | Virginia Tech C | 113 | 10 |
Liam Starnes | Chicago A | Notre Dame | 119 | 10 |
Nick Edwards | McGill A | Waterloo Basic | 120 | 10 |
Orion Keller | Virginia Tech B | South Carolina | 125 | 10 |
Khanh Nguyen | UF B | Florida Tech | 125 | -5 |
Ariel Faeder | Pitt | Maryland | 127 | 10 |
Omkar Marathe | Toyota Tundra Turbos — Twisting Truths - Tackling Trivia - Taming Titans | Madmen and Specialists | 137 | 10 |
Jay Kim | Chicago B | SIUE | 139 | 10 |
Michael Wu | Southampton | Imperial A | 139 | 10 |
Ted Gan | Penn State | RIT | 140 | 10 |
Biniam Alaro | UF A | Valencia | 143 | 10 |
Ishan Joshi | Toronto Metropolitan A | Waterloo Cloze | 143 | 10 |
Antoni Kluzowski | Warwick B | Warwick A | 143 | 10 |
Dylan Tanouye | Tufts B | Bowdoin C | 144 | 10 |
Joseph Xu | Bowdoin B | Clark Wilson | 145 | 10 |
Valerie Unzueta | Florida Tech | UF B | 145 | 10 |
Shiv Seshan | Cambridge B | Warwick C | 145 | 10 |
Madeline Straus | Tufts A | Brandeis B | 146 | 10 |
Selene Wu | BU | Clark House | 146 | 10 |
Mike Cheyne | Old and Young | The cult of SGA | 146 | 10 |
Matthew Andersen | UF C | UCF B | 146 | 10 |
Addison Wiggins | USF | UCF A | 146 | 10 |
Darren Kellis | Milton | Lambert | 146 | 10 |
Edward Kim | Johns Creek | Mississippi State | 146 | 10 |
David Mathew | Purdue A | Illinois Orange | 146 | 10 |
Albert Nyang | LSE A | Cambridge A | 146 | 10 |