Question

In this novel’s seventeenth chapter, the protagonist has an imagined conversation with the worms that chew up manuscripts he is researching. (-5[1])After reading the Panegyric of Saint Monica, a character in this novel recalls the line “Life is lost, the battle still is won!” from a sonnet he failed to write in seminary school. In Helen Caldwell’s translation, this novel’s protagonist compares his lover’s eyes to a tidal “undertow.” This novel’s protagonist earns a (*) derogatory nickname after critiquing a poet’s verses on the train. After attending a performance of Othello, (-5[1])the narrator of this (10[1])novel (-5[1])sends his family to Switzerland because he thinks his son resembles his drowned (10[1])friend Escobar. (10[1]-5[2])This novel’s (10[1])title character (10[1])moves to the suburbs after the death of his wife Capitú, whom he suspects (10[1])had an affair. (10[2])For 10 points, the “taciturn” Bento Santiago narrates what novel by Machado de Assis? (10[1])■END■ (10[2]0[9])

ANSWER: Dom Casmurro
<Literature - World Literature - Long Fiction>
= Average correct buzz position

Summary

2024 ARGOS @ Stanford02/22/2025Y3100%0%67%132.00
2024 ARGOS Online03/22/2025N333%0%67%126.00
2024 ARGOS @ Brandeis03/22/2025N250%0%0%107.00
2024 ARGOS @ McMaster11/17/2024Y540%0%20%137.50
2024 ARGOS @ Chicago11/23/2024Y667%0%0%110.50
2024 ARGOS @ Columbia11/23/2024Y333%0%67%111.00
2024 ARGOS @ Christ's College12/14/2024Y250%0%0%130.00

Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Will AlstonWalston et. al.just one more half-dot bro20-5
Eve FleisigBerkeleyWhere are the ACF Nationals recordings?89-5
Matt BollingerBHSU ReFantazioWashU9310
Shahar SchwartzCry of the Common Loonnumber of tang poems = 75 times number of lines in a shi = 100 times number of lines in a haiku94-5
Tim MorrisonStanford+A is for Amy Robsart who fell down the stairs10710
Liam StarnesThat Feeling When Knee Surgery Is in Five DaysMusic to Help You Stop Smoking10910
Hazel Depreist-SullivanNJ TRANSit (and anwenjeff mcneil #1 morningside heights fan club109-5
Mattias EhatammYou cannot go to Aarhus to see his peat-brown head / With eyes like ripening fruitTensei Shitara Flashcard Data Ken109-5
Zaid Asif12 Litres of Green TeaCope is the thing with feathers11110
Michael HundiingWho is the Colleen Hoover of the Zulus?Clown Senpais11310
Tejas RajeBHSU RebirthThe Love Song of J Alfred PrufRock and Roll All Nite (and Party Every Day)12710
Joseph KrolCien Años de QuizboledadDefying Suavity13010
Raymond ChenShe Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA InterfereThe Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork Orange13010
Stephen LiuWhere are the ACF Nationals recordings?Berkeley14410
Sinecio Moraleshawk two ofClown Squad1450
Patrick QuionNortheast by NorthwesternNotre Dame1450
Stephen HeritageNotre DameNortheast by Northwestern1450
Antoni KluzowskiGrzegorz BrzęczyszczykiewiczLimp Francekit1450
Isaac Kirk-Davidoffjeff mcneil #1 morningside heights fan clubNJ TRANSit (and anwen1450
Eshan Pantjust one more half-dot broWalston et. al.1450
Kane NguyenI'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up Communism is Soviet power plus the yassification of the whole country1450
Ishan JoshiRyan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan QuizbowlersModerator Can't Neg me While in Alpha1450
Tony ChenSimpson Agonistes: The Crisis of Donutas rational as the square root of two power bottoms14510
Henry AtkinsCommunism is Soviet power plus the yassification of the whole countryI'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up 1450
Vincent Dunumber of tang poems = 75 times number of lines in a shi = 100 times number of lines in a haikuCry of the Common Loon14510