Question

In a story partly titled for this adjective, a character who likens her body to laminated metal stands beside a lamp while smoking cigarettes with the narrator. In that Gabriel García Márquez story, a woman obsessively writes a phrase containing this adjective to get a man she meets in a dream to recall her. While visiting a Lahore mosque, a Scottish professor offers the title objects to a blind beggar in a story partly titled for this adjective from (15[1])(*) Shakespeare’s Memory. A collection named for this adjective includes the stories “The Veil of Queen Mab” and one in which a monarch forces a poor (-5[1])poet to play a music box, titled “The Bourgeois King.” This adjective, which partly titles a Borges story about replicating stones, names a collection that includes short stories along with poems (10[1])like “Symphony in Gray Major.” (10[2])For 10 points, (10[1])what color (10[1])titles a modernismo (10[1])collection (10[1])by Rubén (10[2])Darío? (10[1])■END■ (10[2]0[2])

ANSWER: blue [or azul; accept “Blue Tigers” or “Tigres azules”; accept “Eyes of a Blue Dog” or “Ojos de perro azul”]
<Literature - World Literature - Misc Literature>
= Average correct buzz position

Summary

2024 ARGOS @ Stanford02/22/2025N3100%0%0%110.67
2024 ARGOS @ McMaster11/17/2024Y5100%20%0%133.00
2024 ARGOS @ Chicago11/23/2024Y683%0%17%143.20
2024 ARGOS @ Columbia11/23/2024Y3100%0%0%148.33
2024 ARGOS @ Christ's College12/14/2024N3100%0%0%142.67

Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Henry AtkinsCommunism is Soviet power plus the yassification of the whole countryYou cannot go to Aarhus to see his peat-brown head / With eyes like ripening fruit7815
Sinecio Moraleshawk two ofThat Feeling When Knee Surgery Is in Five Days103-5
John MarvinThe Love Song of J Alfred PrufRock and Roll All Nite (and Party Every Day)Who is the Colleen Hoover of the Zulus?13410
Rob CarsonBHSU RebirthMusic to Help You Stop Smoking13910
Matt BollingerBHSU ReFantazioWashU13910
Tony ChenSimpson Agonistes: The Crisis of DonutRyan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan Quizbowlers14210
Will AlstonWalston et. al.just one more half-dot bro14410
Raymond ChenShe Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA Interfereas rational as the square root of two power bottoms14710
Caleb OttTensei Shitara Flashcard Data KenModerator Can't Neg me While in Alpha14810
Hazel Depreist-SullivanNJ TRANSit (and anwen i guess)jeff mcneil #1 morningside heights fan club15010
Kane NguyenI'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up The Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork Orange15010
Ryan RosenbergCope is the thing with feathers12 Litres of Green Tea15110
Todd MaslykClown SenpaisClown Squad1520
Zach JosephNotre DameNortheast by Northwestern15210
Liam StarnesThat Feeling When Knee Surgery Is in Five Dayshawk two of15210
Yashwanth BajjiClown SquadClown Senpais1520