Question
This composer’s piano arrangement of Nino Rota’s love theme from Zeffirelli’s film Romeo and Juliet succeeded the Beatles’ “Get Back” as Billboard’s #1 song. A 3/4 song by this composer begins with the melody “long C, short high G, F, [pause] E, eighth notes D - C - B-flat, long C.” An Ernest Dowson poem inspired the two run-on sentences that make up the lyrics to this composer’s song “The Days of Wine and Roses.” The bass chromatically ascends from C-sharp to a long (*) E in swung eighth notes to set up the saxophone melody of a theme by this composer of the soundtrack to Peter Gunn. Johnny Mercer’s lyrics describe a “huckleberry friend” as “wider than a mile” in a song this composer wrote for Audrey Hepburn. For 10 points, name this Italian-American composer of the “Pink Panther Theme,” who wrote “Moon River” for the film Breakfast at Tiffany’s. ■END■
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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Adrian Wong | The Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork Orange | You cannot go to Aarhus to see his peat-brown head / With eyes like ripening fruit | 119 | 10 |
Aaron Dos Remedios | Moderator Can't Neg me While in Alpha | Communism is Soviet power plus the yassification of the whole country | 120 | -5 |
Jason Zhang | She Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA Interfere | Simpson Agonistes: The Crisis of Donut | 126 | -5 |
Ishan Joshi | Ryan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan Quizbowlers | as rational as the square root of two power bottoms | 132 | -5 |
Erik Christensen | I'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up | Tensei Shitara Flashcard Data Ken | 137 | -5 |
Henry Atkins | Communism is Soviet power plus the yassification of the whole country | Moderator Can't Neg me While in Alpha | 138 | 10 |
Gareth Thorlakson | Simpson Agonistes: The Crisis of Donut | She Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA Interfere | 149 | 10 |
Caleb Ott | Tensei Shitara Flashcard Data Ken | I'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up | 149 | 0 |
Summary
2024 ARGOS @ Stanford | 02/22/2025 | N | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 112.67 |
2024 ARGOS @ McMaster | 11/17/2024 | Y | 5 | 60% | 0% | 80% | 135.33 |
2024 ARGOS @ Chicago | 11/23/2024 | N | 6 | 67% | 33% | 33% | 91.50 |
2024 ARGOS @ Columbia | 11/23/2024 | N | 3 | 67% | 33% | 33% | 105.50 |
2024 ARGOS @ Christ's College | 12/14/2024 | N | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 113.33 |