Question
After being resurrected by having his head sewn back on, a character in this novel says that while in hell he saw famous people like Alexander the Great and Cicero with menial jobs. While giving a genealogy, the narrator of this novel mentions Hurtali, who, despite not being mentioned in the Bible, steered Noah’s ark during the flood. While trying to get advice, a man in this novel seeks the counsel of a dying poet, Virgilian lots, and an old woman who throws verse-inscribed leaves in the air. A flying, mustard spreading hog in this novel is worshiped by the warlike (*) Chitterlings. A man in this novel is confused by the word “trinc” until the priestess Bacbuc says that it means “drink.” This novel, which is narrated by Alcofribas Nasier, ends after Panurge visits the Oracle of the Holy Bottle. For 10 points, name this novel that centers on two giants, written by Francois Rabelais. ■END■
Summary
2024 ARGOS @ Stanford | 02/22/2025 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 114.33 |
2024 ARGOS Online | 03/22/2025 | N | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 127.00 |
2024 ARGOS @ Brandeis | 03/22/2025 | N | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 131.00 |
2024 ARGOS @ McMaster | 11/17/2024 | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 20% | 148.00 |
2024 ARGOS @ Chicago | 11/23/2024 | Y | 6 | 100% | 17% | 33% | 140.67 |
2024 ARGOS @ Columbia | 11/23/2024 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 124.67 |
2024 ARGOS @ Christ's College | 12/14/2024 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 140.67 |
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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Raymond Chen | She Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA Interfere | You cannot go to Aarhus to see his peat-brown head / With eyes like ripening fruit | 76 | -5 |
Matt Bollinger | BHSU ReFantazio | Who is the Colleen Hoover of the Zulus? | 89 | 15 |
Jason Golfinos | Where are the ACF Nationals recordings? | number of tang poems = 75 times number of lines in a shi = 100 times number of lines in a haiku | 101 | 10 |
Eshan Pant | just one more half-dot bro | Cope is the thing with feathers | 105 | 10 |
Ned Tagtmeier | The Love Song of J Alfred PrufRock and Roll All Nite (and Party Every Day) | BHSU Rebirth | 116 | -5 |
Eve Fleisig | Berkeley | Stanford+ | 116 | 10 |
Taylor Harvey | Cry of the Common Loon | A is for Amy Robsart who fell down the stairs | 126 | 10 |
Hazel Depreist-Sullivan | NJ TRANSit (and anwen | 12 Litres of Green Tea | 130 | 10 |
Caleb Ott | Tensei Shitara Flashcard Data Ken | Simpson Agonistes: The Crisis of Donut | 131 | 10 |
Joseph Krol | Cien Años de Quizboledad | Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz | 133 | 10 |
Ben Russell Jones | Simple Vibes | Limp Francekit | 139 | 10 |
John Lawrence | Walston et. al. | jeff mcneil #1 morningside heights fan club | 139 | 10 |
Mike Bentley | Music to Help You Stop Smoking | WashU | 145 | 10 |
Todd Maslyk | Clown Senpais | Notre Dame | 150 | 10 |
Claire Jones | Defying Suavity | Cambridge | 150 | 10 |
Henry Atkins | Communism is Soviet power plus the yassification of the whole country | Ryan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan Quizbowlers | 150 | 10 |
Joey Sun | Moderator Can't Neg me While in Alpha | I'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up | 151 | 10 |
Rob Carson | BHSU Rebirth | The Love Song of J Alfred PrufRock and Roll All Nite (and Party Every Day) | 152 | 10 |
Matt Schiavone | Northeast by Northwestern | hawk two of | 152 | -5 |
Yashwanth Bajji | Clown Squad | That Feeling When Knee Surgery Is in Five Days | 153 | 10 |
Adrian Wong | The Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork Orange | as rational as the square root of two power bottoms | 153 | 10 |
Sinecio Morales | hawk two of | Northeast by Northwestern | 155 | 10 |
Mattias Ehatamm | You cannot go to Aarhus to see his peat-brown head / With eyes like ripening fruit | She Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA Interfere | 155 | 10 |