Garabogazkol - 2024 ARGOS - Buzzpoints App

Question

Answer the following questions about places that title books by Soviet author Konstantin Paustovsky. For 10 points each:

[10h] One of Paustovsky’s renowned novellas is titled for a city named for this lagoon east of the Caspian Sea. This lagoon’s salinity reaches 35%, leading the USSR to set up still-operational salt factories there in the early 1930s.

ANSWER: Garabogazkol [accept Kara-Bugaz]

[10m] Paustovsky’s novella Kolkhida, published a year after Kara-Bugaz, references a town named for the ancient kingdom of Colchis that is today in this coastal unrecognized state.

ANSWER: Abkhazia

[10e] Abkhazia lies on this body of water to the west of the Caucasus, which also titles a Paustovsky essay collection inspired by his time in Crimea.

ANSWER: Black Sea [accept Chernoye More]

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Summary


2024 ARGOS @ Brandeis	03/22/2025	Y	3	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 ARGOS @ Chicago	11/23/2024	Y	5	10.00	80%	20%	0%
2024 ARGOS @ Christ's College	12/14/2024	Y	3	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 ARGOS @ Columbia	11/23/2024	Y	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%
2024 ARGOS @ Stanford	02/22/2025	Y	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%
2024 ARGOS Online	03/22/2025	Y	3	20.00	100%	100%	0%

Data


BHSU ReFantazio	BHSU Rebirth	10	10	20
Music to Help You Stop Smoking	The Love Song of J Alfred PrufRock and Roll All Nite (and Party Every Day)	0	10	10
Northeast by Northwestern	That Feeling When Knee Surgery Is in Five Days	0	10	10
Who is the Colleen Hoover of the Zulus?	WashU	0	10	10
hawk two of	Clown Senpais	0	0	0
Cien Años de Quizboledad	Cambridge	10	10	20
Simple Vibes	Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz	10	10	20
Limp Francekit	Defying Suavity	10	10	20
just one more half-dot bro	12 Litres of Green Tea	0	10	10
Walston et. al.	NJ TRANSit (and anwen	10	10	20
jeff mcneil #1 morningside heights fan club	Cope is the thing with feathers	10	10	20
A is for Amy Robsart who fell down the stairs	Berkeley	10	10	20
Cry of the Common Loon	Where are the ACF Nationals recordings?	10	10	20
Stanford+	number of tang poems = 75 times number of lines in a shi = 100 times number of lines in a haiku	0	10	10
Aw we're so sorry to hear that maman died today, she gets five big booms	throw away your cards, rally in the streets	10	10	20
I wish it were possible to freeze time so I would never have to watch you retire	CLEVELAND, THIS IS FOR YOU!	10	10	20
UBC	Thompson et al.	10	10	20
"Powers a question on Stancyzk" that's a clown question bro	Banned from ARGOS	0	10	10
Import Pandas	Hu up Jinning they Tao	0	10	10
\|madam\|	Pahkin' the Ahgo	0	10	10