Smokey the Bear - 2024 ARGOS

Question

After a speech delivered “Once in the Jurassic about 150 million years ago,” a figure manifests in his “true form” as this character. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this figure invoked with the war spell “DROWN THEIR BUTTS / CRUSH THEIR BUTTS / DROWN THEIR BUTTS / CRUSH THEIR BUTTS,” after which he will put out the enemy with his “vajra-shovel.”

ANSWER: Smokey the Bear [accept “Smokey the Bear Sutra”]

[10m] This poet practiced Zen meditation as a fire lookout in Washington State, which influenced his poem “Smokey the Bear Sutra” and the works from his collection Turtle Island.

ANSWER: Gary Snyder

[10e] This fellow Beatnik wrote a sutra titled The Scripture of the Golden Eternity. This author depicted Snyder as Japhy Ryder in the novel The Dharma Bums.

ANSWER: Jack Kerouac [or Jean-Louis Lebris de Kérouac]

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Summary


2024 ARGOS @ Brandeis	03/22/2025	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2024 ARGOS @ Chicago	11/23/2024	Y	4	20.00	100%	50%	50%
2024 ARGOS @ Christ's College	12/14/2024	Y	3	10.00	67%	33%	0%
2024 ARGOS @ Columbia	11/23/2024	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2024 ARGOS @ McMaster	11/17/2024	Y	5	18.00	100%	80%	0%
2024 ARGOS @ Stanford	02/22/2025	Y	3	23.33	100%	100%	33%
2024 ARGOS Online	03/22/2025	Y	3	20.00	100%	67%	33%

Data


Import Pandas	Pahkin' the Ahgo	0	0	10	10
"Powers a question on Stancyzk" that's a clown question bro	\|madam\|	0	10	10	20
Who is the Colleen Hoover of the Zulus?	BHSU ReFantazio	10	10	10	30
WashU	Music to Help You Stop Smoking	0	0	10	10
hawk two of	Northeast by Northwestern	0	0	10	10
The Love Song of J Alfred PrufRock and Roll All Nite (and Party Every Day)	BHSU Rebirth	10	10	10	30
Cambridge	Defying Suavity	0	0	0	0
Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz	Cien Años de Quizboledad	0	0	10	10
Limp Francekit	Simple Vibes	0	10	10	20
Walston et. al.	jeff mcneil #1 morningside heights fan club	0	10	10	20
just one more half-dot bro	Cope is the thing with feathers	0	0	10	10
I'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up	Moderator Can't Neg me While in Alpha	0	0	10	10
Communism is Soviet power plus the yassification of the whole country	Ryan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan Quizbowlers	0	10	10	20
Simpson Agonistes: The Crisis of Donut	Tensei Shitara Flashcard Data Ken	0	10	10	20
The Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork Orange	as rational as the square root of two power bottoms	0	10	10	20
You cannot go to Aarhus to see his peat-brown head / With eyes like ripening fruit	She Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA Interfere	0	10	10	20
A is for Amy Robsart who fell down the stairs	Cry of the Common Loon	10	10	10	30
Stanford+	Berkeley	0	10	10	20
Where are the ACF Nationals recordings?	number of tang poems = 75 times number of lines in a shi = 100 times number of lines in a haiku	0	10	10	20
CLEVELAND, THIS IS FOR YOU!	Aw we're so sorry to hear that maman died today, she gets five big booms	0	10	10	20
Thompson et al.	I wish it were possible to freeze time so I would never have to watch you retire	0	0	10	10
throw away your cards, rally in the streets	UBC	10	10	10	30