Question

In a climactic moment, this character feels like “Marie Antoinette bound for the guillotine” before meeting a man in a “white coat” who drops his cigarette in disbelief at this character’s strange request. When speaking of “common kindness,” this character is cut off by an interlocutor who says that quoting Little Women is “out of style.” A sixteen-year-old boy threatens to use a two-by-four to hit this character returning from a dressing-room. While eavesdropping on her aunt (15[1])and (*) cousin, this character listens to a criticism of her “crazy Indian blood.” After agreeing to go to the Sevier (10[1])Hotel in an effort to impress Warren McIntyre, this character realizes that her cousin Marjorie (10[1])has tricked her, (10[1])leading this character (10[2])to cut off (10[1])Marjorie’s (10[2])braids (10[1])before (10[1])heading back to Eau Claire. (10[3])For 10 points, name this girl who, in an F. Scott Fitzgerald (10[2])story, “Bobs Her Hair.” ■END■ (10[3])

ANSWER: Bernice [accept “Bernice Bobs Her Hair”]
<Literature - American Literature - Short Fiction>
= Average correct buzz position

Summary

2024 ARGOS @ Stanford02/22/2025Y3100%33%0%101.33
2024 ARGOS Online03/22/2025N367%0%67%133.00
2024 ARGOS @ Brandeis03/22/2025N367%0%0%113.00
2024 ARGOS @ McMaster11/17/2024Y5100%0%0%128.60
2024 ARGOS @ Chicago11/23/2024Y5100%0%0%119.40
2024 ARGOS @ Columbia11/23/2024Y3100%0%0%122.67
2024 ARGOS @ Christ's College12/14/2024Y3100%0%0%141.67

Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Neil GurramA is for Amy Robsart who fell down the stairsWhere are the ACF Nationals recordings?7615
Henry CafaroThe Love Song of J Alfred PrufRock and Roll All Nite (and Party Every Day)Notre Dame9610
Eve FleisigBerkeleynumber of tang poems = 75 times number of lines in a shi = 100 times number of lines in a haiku11110
Rob CarsonBHSU RebirthWho is the Colleen Hoover of the Zulus?11410
Cooper Rohjust one more half-dot broNJ TRANSit (and anwen i guess)11710
Shahar SchwartzCry of the Common LoonStanford+11710
Sinecio Moraleshawk two ofWashU12010
Caleb OttTensei Shitara Flashcard Data KenRyan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan Quizbowlers12110
Tony ChenSimpson Agonistes: The Crisis of DonutYou cannot go to Aarhus to see his peat-brown head / With eyes like ripening fruit12110
Dylan MinarikBHSU ReFantazioMusic to Help You Stop Smoking12210
John LawrenceWalston et. al.Cope is the thing with feathers12310
Halle Friedmanjeff mcneil #1 morningside heights fan club12 Litres of Green Tea12810
Raymond ChenShe Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA InterfereModerator Can't Neg me While in Alpha12810
Henry AtkinsCommunism is Soviet power plus the yassification of the whole countryThe Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork Orange12810
Ben Russell JonesSimple VibesGrzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz14010
Daoud JacksonDefying SuavityLimp Franceskit14010
Liam StarnesThat Feeling When Knee Surgery Is in Five DaysClown Squad14510
Joseph KrolCien Años de QuizboledadCambridge14510
Erik ChristensenI'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up as rational as the square root of two power bottoms14510