Question
When a woman encounters this character riding a horse on a country road, she notices this character’s new habit of narrowing her eyes when she thinks. A passage describing the candle by which this character read “that book filled with anxieties, deceptions, griefs and evils” mentions her recurring nightmare of a peasant “working over some iron.” While looking at a painting, this character admires the pity in the face of Jesus standing next to Pontius Pilate. A lie that this character died is told to her son by the pious Countess (*) Lydia. After this character nearly dies giving birth, her lover shoots himself in the chest, but he recovers and signs up for a position in Tashkent. This character confesses her infidelity after her lover breaks the back of his horse Frou-Frou during a race. For 10 points, name this character who has an affair with Count Vronsky in a novel by Leo Tolstoy. ■END■
Summary
2024 ARGOS @ Stanford | 02/22/2025 | N | 3 | 100% | 0% | 67% | 146.33 |
2024 ARGOS @ Brandeis | 03/22/2025 | Y | 3 | 100% | 67% | 33% | 93.67 |
2024 ARGOS Online | 03/22/2025 | Y | 3 | 100% | 33% | 33% | 114.33 |
2024 ARGOS @ McMaster | 11/17/2024 | Y | 5 | 100% | 40% | 40% | 110.00 |
2024 ARGOS @ Columbia | 11/23/2024 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 141.67 |
2024 ARGOS @ Chicago | 11/23/2024 | Y | 6 | 100% | 33% | 17% | 112.50 |
2024 ARGOS @ Christ's College | 12/14/2024 | N | 3 | 100% | 33% | 33% | 124.67 |
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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Jordan Brownstein | "Powers a question on Stancyzk" that's a clown question bro | |madam| | 38 | 15 |
Michael Hundiing | Who is the Colleen Hoover of the Zulus? | The Love Song of J Alfred PrufRock and Roll All Nite (and Party Every Day) | 55 | 15 |
Henry Atkins | Communism is Soviet power plus the yassification of the whole country | as rational as the square root of two power bottoms | 55 | 15 |
Ariel Faeder | throw away your cards, rally in the streets | UBC | 55 | 15 |
Mattias Ehatamm | You cannot go to Aarhus to see his peat-brown head / With eyes like ripening fruit | Ryan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan Quizbowlers | 58 | 15 |
Christopher Dech | Hu up Jinning they Tao | Banned from ARGOS | 89 | 15 |
Matt Bollinger | BHSU ReFantazio | Clown Squad | 90 | 15 |
Todd Maslyk | Clown Senpais | Notre Dame | 111 | 10 |
Mike Bentley | Music to Help You Stop Smoking | WashU | 121 | -5 |
John Lawrence | Walston et. al. | jeff mcneil #1 morningside heights fan club | 124 | 10 |
Adil Haider | The Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork Orange | Tensei Shitara Flashcard Data Ken | 130 | 10 |
Raymond Chen | She Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA Interfere | I'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up | 130 | -5 |
Andrew Hart | BHSU Rebirth | Northeast by Northwestern | 131 | 10 |
Eren Michelet | Pahkin' the Ahgo | Import Pandas | 134 | -5 |
Sinecio Morales | hawk two of | That Feeling When Knee Surgery Is in Five Days | 134 | 10 |
Hazel Depreist-Sullivan | NJ TRANSit (and anwen i guess) | 12 Litres of Green Tea | 134 | -5 |
Sky Li | Simpson Agonistes: The Crisis of Donut | Moderator Can't Neg me While in Alpha | 134 | -5 |
Kevin Wang | CLEVELAND, THIS IS FOR YOU! | Aw we're so sorry to hear that maman died today, she gets five big booms | 134 | 10 |
Joel Miles | Thompson et al. | I wish it were possible to freeze time so I would never have to watch you retire | 134 | -5 |
Ryan Rosenberg | Cope is the thing with feathers | just one more half-dot bro | 147 | 10 |
Erik Christensen | I'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up | She Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA Interfere | 153 | 10 |
Walter Zhang | Import Pandas | Pahkin' the Ahgo | 154 | 10 |
Charles Hang | WashU | Music to Help You Stop Smoking | 154 | 10 |
Zaid Asif | 12 Litres of Green Tea | NJ TRANSit (and anwen i guess) | 154 | 10 |
Yihong Chen | Moderator Can't Neg me While in Alpha | Simpson Agonistes: The Crisis of Donut | 154 | 10 |
Michael Coates | I wish it were possible to freeze time so I would never have to watch you retire | Thompson et al. | 154 | 10 |