In a film, a character with this profession visits a man who hangs paper cranes on his yacht after looking for the Complete Works of Shakespeare in a library. After a rival shoves a meal off a table, a character with this profession tells a story about two men competing over a kidney transplant by guessing a card put in their pocket by the other. To celebrate spending “a quarter of a century on this planet,” a character with this profession jogs in the rain and receives a birthday message from a (*) blonde wig-wearing woman he met at a bar. A man with this profession chases a character in a scene that uses the step-printing effect to generate motion blur. In a 1994 film, two men with this profession played by Takeshi Kaneshiro and Tony Leung recover from romantic breakups. For 10 points, what profession is held by the leads of Chungking Express and by the undercover Chan in Infernal Affairs? ■END■
| 2024 ARGOS @ Stanford | 02/22/2025 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 112.33 |
| 2024 ARGOS Online | 03/22/2025 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 140.67 |
| 2024 ARGOS @ Brandeis | 03/22/2025 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 148.67 |
| 2024 ARGOS @ McMaster | 11/17/2024 | Y | 5 | 100% | 20% | 0% | 119.80 |
| 2024 ARGOS @ Columbia | 11/23/2024 | Y | 3 | 100% | 33% | 33% | 120.00 |
| 2024 ARGOS @ Chicago | 11/23/2024 | Y | 6 | 83% | 0% | 17% | 124.20 |
| 2024 ARGOS @ Christ's College | 12/14/2024 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 119.67 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Halle Friedman | jeff mcneil #1 morningside heights fan club | just one more half-dot bro | 39 | 15 |
| Adrian Wong | The Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork Orange | Ryan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan Quizbowlers | 89 | 15 |
| Vinayak Singh Bhadoriya | Cope is the thing with feathers | NJ TRANSit (and anwen | 93 | -5 |
| Ned Tagtmeier | The Love Song of J Alfred PrufRock and Roll All Nite (and Party Every Day) | Clown Senpais | 94 | -5 |
| Raymond Chen | She Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA Interfere | Communism is Soviet power plus the yassification of the whole country | 99 | 10 |
| Jared He | You cannot go to Aarhus to see his peat-brown head / With eyes like ripening fruit | Moderator Can't Neg me While in Alpha | 99 | 10 |
| Vincent Du | number of tang poems = 75 times number of lines in a shi = 100 times number of lines in a haiku | A is for Amy Robsart who fell down the stairs | 99 | 10 |
| Taylor Harvey | Cry of the Common Loon | Berkeley | 99 | 10 |
| Jonathan Schnipper | Hu up Jinning they Tao | "Powers a question on Stancyzk" that's a clown question bro | 101 | -5 |
| Leo Tao | Clown Squad | Music to Help You Stop Smoking | 104 | 10 |
| Max Brodsky | Who is the Colleen Hoover of the Zulus? | Northeast by Northwestern | 105 | 10 |
| Frances Hadley | Limp Franceskit | Cambridge | 118 | 10 |
| Oliver Hargrave | Defying Suavity | Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz | 119 | 10 |
| Ben Russell Jones | Simple Vibes | Cien Años de Quizboledad | 122 | 10 |
| Dylan Minarik | BHSU ReFantazio | hawk two of | 127 | 10 |
| Walter Zhang | Import Pandas | |madam| | 131 | 10 |
| Allan Lee | Stanford+ | Where are the ACF Nationals recordings? | 139 | 10 |
| Ariel Faeder | throw away your cards, rally in the streets | Thompson et al. | 139 | 10 |
| Chinmay Kansara | CLEVELAND, THIS IS FOR YOU! | UBC | 139 | 10 |
| Tejas Raje | BHSU Rebirth | Notre Dame | 142 | 10 |
| Annabelle Yang | WashU | That Feeling When Knee Surgery Is in Five Days | 143 | 10 |
| Michael Coates | I wish it were possible to freeze time so I would never have to watch you retire | Aw we're so sorry to hear that maman died today, she gets five big booms | 144 | 10 |
| Gareth Thorlakson | Simpson Agonistes: The Crisis of Donut | I'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up | 151 | 10 |
| Jaehyun Park | Pahkin' the Ahgo | Banned from ARGOS | 155 | 10 |
| Jordan Brownstein | "Powers a question on Stancyzk" that's a clown question bro | Hu up Jinning they Tao | 160 | 10 |
| Albert Zhang | Walston et. al. | 12 Litres of Green Tea | 160 | 10 |
| Fierro Grey | NJ TRANSit (and anwen | Cope is the thing with feathers | 161 | 10 |
| Maude-Sophie Lockman | as rational as the square root of two power bottoms | Tensei Shitara Flashcard Data Ken | 161 | 10 |