Question
A hairy man intercepts messengers sent to consult this being and predicts the king’s death from injuries sustained by falling through a lattice. Louis Le Breton depicted this being with skull-and-crossbones on two of his wings in the Dictionnaire Infernal. This being’s popular name is either a corruption of a title referring to the “heavenly ■END■
ANSWER: Baalzebub [or Beelzebub; or Baalzebul; or the Lord of the Flies; prompt on Baal; prompt on Satan or the devil] (The first sentence refers to an incident in Second Kings, Chapter 1.)
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= Average correct buzz position
Summary
| 2024 ARGOS @ Stanford | 02/22/2025 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 131.67 |
| 2024 ARGOS Online | 03/22/2025 | N | 3 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 130.33 |
| 2024 ARGOS @ Brandeis | 03/22/2025 | N | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 120.67 |
| 2024 ARGOS @ McMaster | 11/17/2024 | Y | 5 | 80% | 20% | 20% | 106.50 |
| 2024 ARGOS @ Chicago | 11/23/2024 | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 17% | 123.33 |
| 2024 ARGOS @ Columbia | 11/23/2024 | Y | 3 | 100% | 67% | 0% | 77.67 |
| 2024 ARGOS @ Christ's College | 12/14/2024 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 130.00 |
Buzzes
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Will Alston | Walston et. al. | just one more half-dot bro | 52 | 15 |
| Yihong Chen | Moderator Can't Neg me While in Alpha | Tensei Shitara Flashcard Data Ken | 55 | 15 |
| Zaid Asif | 12 Litres of Green Tea | Cope is the thing with feathers | 59 | 15 |
| Jason Golfinos | Where are the ACF Nationals recordings? | Berkeley | 92 | -5 |
| Subhamitra Banerjee Roychoudhury | Clown Senpais | Clown Squad | 108 | 10 |
| Ishan Joshi | Ryan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan Quizbowlers | Simpson Agonistes: The Crisis of Donut | 115 | 10 |
| Andrew Hart | BHSU Rebirth | Music to Help You Stop Smoking | 117 | 10 |
| Sinecio Morales | hawk two of | That Feeling When Knee Surgery Is in Five Days | 117 | 10 |
| Daoud Jackson | Defying Suavity | Cien Años de Quizboledad | 117 | 10 |
| Matt Schiavone | Northeast by Northwestern | Notre Dame | 119 | -5 |
| Taylor Harvey | Cry of the Common Loon | number of tang poems = 75 times number of lines in a shi = 100 times number of lines in a haiku | 121 | 10 |
| Ned Tagtmeier | The Love Song of J Alfred PrufRock and Roll All Nite (and Party Every Day) | Who is the Colleen Hoover of the Zulus? | 122 | 10 |
| Hazel Depreist-Sullivan | NJ TRANSit (and anwen i guess) | jeff mcneil #1 morningside heights fan club | 122 | 10 |
| Henry Atkins | Communism is Soviet power plus the yassification of the whole country | You cannot go to Aarhus to see his peat-brown head / With eyes like ripening fruit | 123 | 10 |
| Agnijo Banerjee | Simple Vibes | Cambridge | 124 | -5 |
| Antoni Kluzowski | Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz | Limp Franceskit | 124 | 10 |
| Michal Gerasimiuk | Stanford+ | A is for Amy Robsart who fell down the stairs | 126 | 10 |
| Matt Bollinger | BHSU ReFantazio | WashU | 127 | 10 |
| Elijah Mandelbaum | as rational as the square root of two power bottoms | She Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA Interfere | 133 | 10 |
| Adil Haider | The Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork Orange | I'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up | 141 | -5 |
| Eve Fleisig | Berkeley | Where are the ACF Nationals recordings? | 148 | 10 |
| Will Sanders | Notre Dame | Northeast by Northwestern | 149 | 10 |
| Arvin Borgahi | Cambridge | Simple Vibes | 149 | 10 |
| Kane Nguyen | I'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up | The Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork Orange | 149 | 0 |