Question
In a story titled for this kind of person, the protagonist steps out her front door one night and sees a horse pulling a rickety wagon slip on ice and fall down right in front of her. In a novel whose title refers to the protagonist as this kind of person, the protagonist is told to “cultivate some inhibitions” by Sigmund Freud. A story titled for this kind of person ends after the protagonist is told to “cheer up” by the black maid Nettie after she gives the toast “Here’s (*) mud in your eye.” This is the [emphasize] second type of person in the title of a novel whose protagonist tricks men like Francis Beekman with her friend Dorothy Shaw. Two vials of veronal are used in an attempted suicide by Hazel Morse in a story titled for a “big” one of these people written by Dorothy Parker. For 10 points, Lorelei Lee is the protagonist of a novel by Anita Loos titled Gentlemen Prefer what type of women? ■END■
Summary
2024 ARGOS @ Stanford | 02/22/2025 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 106.33 |
2024 ARGOS Online | 03/22/2025 | N | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 124.67 |
2024 ARGOS @ Brandeis | 03/22/2025 | N | 3 | 100% | 33% | 0% | 97.00 |
2024 ARGOS @ McMaster | 11/17/2024 | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 40% | 151.60 |
2024 ARGOS @ Chicago | 11/23/2024 | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 162.17 |
2024 ARGOS @ Columbia | 11/23/2024 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 67% | 157.67 |
2024 ARGOS @ Christ's College | 12/14/2024 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 158.00 |
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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Tony Chen | Simpson Agonistes: The Crisis of Donut | The Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork Orange | 94 | -5 |
Anuttam Ramji | Cry of the Common Loon | Berkeley | 94 | 10 |
Ryan Sun | number of tang poems = 75 times number of lines in a shi = 100 times number of lines in a haiku | A is for Amy Robsart who fell down the stairs | 95 | 10 |
Henry Atkins | Communism is Soviet power plus the yassification of the whole country | Tensei Shitara Flashcard Data Ken | 96 | 10 |
Tim Morrison | Stanford+ | Where are the ACF Nationals recordings? | 130 | 10 |
Ned Tagtmeier | The Love Song of J Alfred PrufRock and Roll All Nite (and Party Every Day) | BHSU ReFantazio | 131 | -5 |
Eshan Pant | just one more half-dot bro | jeff mcneil #1 morningside heights fan club | 135 | -5 |
Jared He | You cannot go to Aarhus to see his peat-brown head / With eyes like ripening fruit | I'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up | 138 | -5 |
John Lawrence | Walston et. al. | 12 Litres of Green Tea | 141 | 10 |
Sinecio Morales | hawk two of | Notre Dame | 142 | -5 |
Hazel Depreist-Sullivan | NJ TRANSit (and anwen i guess) | Cope is the thing with feathers | 142 | -5 |
Rob Carson | BHSU Rebirth | WashU | 146 | 10 |
Ben Russell Jones | Simple Vibes | Defying Suavity | 149 | 10 |
Frances Hadley | Limp Franceskit | Cien Años de Quizboledad | 158 | 10 |
Justin Wytmar | Who is the Colleen Hoover of the Zulus? | Music to Help You Stop Smoking | 163 | 10 |
Aaron Dos Remedios | Moderator Can't Neg me While in Alpha | as rational as the square root of two power bottoms | 163 | 10 |
Jack van Nostrand | Ryan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan Quizbowlers | She Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA Interfere | 163 | 10 |
Andrew Wang | BHSU ReFantazio | The Love Song of J Alfred PrufRock and Roll All Nite (and Party Every Day) | 164 | 10 |
Todd Maslyk | Clown Senpais | That Feeling When Knee Surgery Is in Five Days | 164 | 10 |
Halle Friedman | jeff mcneil #1 morningside heights fan club | just one more half-dot bro | 164 | 10 |
Shiv Seshan | Cambridge | Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz | 167 | 10 |
Jacob Puthipiroj | Northeast by Northwestern | Clown Squad | 168 | 10 |
Will Sanders | Notre Dame | hawk two of | 168 | 10 |
Ryan Rosenberg | Cope is the thing with feathers | NJ TRANSit (and anwen i guess) | 168 | 10 |
Adrian Wong | The Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork Orange | Simpson Agonistes: The Crisis of Donut | 168 | 10 |
Erik Christensen | I'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up | You cannot go to Aarhus to see his peat-brown head / With eyes like ripening fruit | 168 | 10 |