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 (*) 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 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 like “Symphony in Gray Major.” For 10 points, what color titles a modernismo collection by Rubén Darío? ■END■
Summary
2024 ARGOS @ Stanford | 02/22/2025 | N | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 110.67 |
2024 ARGOS @ McMaster | 11/17/2024 | Y | 5 | 100% | 20% | 0% | 133.00 |
2024 ARGOS @ Chicago | 11/23/2024 | Y | 6 | 83% | 0% | 17% | 143.20 |
2024 ARGOS @ Columbia | 11/23/2024 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 148.33 |
2024 ARGOS @ Christ's College | 12/14/2024 | N | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 142.67 |
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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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 | 78 | 15 |
Sinecio Morales | hawk two of | That Feeling When Knee Surgery Is in Five Days | 103 | -5 |
John Marvin | The Love Song of J Alfred PrufRock and Roll All Nite (and Party Every Day) | Who is the Colleen Hoover of the Zulus? | 134 | 10 |
Rob Carson | BHSU Rebirth | Music to Help You Stop Smoking | 139 | 10 |
Matt Bollinger | BHSU ReFantazio | WashU | 139 | 10 |
Tony Chen | Simpson Agonistes: The Crisis of Donut | Ryan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan Quizbowlers | 142 | 10 |
Will Alston | Walston et. al. | just one more half-dot bro | 144 | 10 |
Raymond Chen | She Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA Interfere | as rational as the square root of two power bottoms | 147 | 10 |
Caleb Ott | Tensei Shitara Flashcard Data Ken | Moderator Can't Neg me While in Alpha | 148 | 10 |
Hazel Depreist-Sullivan | NJ TRANSit (and anwen i guess) | jeff mcneil #1 morningside heights fan club | 150 | 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 | 150 | 10 |
Ryan Rosenberg | Cope is the thing with feathers | 12 Litres of Green Tea | 151 | 10 |
Todd Maslyk | Clown Senpais | Clown Squad | 152 | 0 |
Zach Joseph | Notre Dame | Northeast by Northwestern | 152 | 10 |
Liam Starnes | That Feeling When Knee Surgery Is in Five Days | hawk two of | 152 | 10 |
Yashwanth Bajji | Clown Squad | Clown Senpais | 152 | 0 |