Question
While sitting on a bench, this character thinks about the moment six years earlier when a man silently walked up behind her and proposed, but is distracted by a different man who silently walks up behind her and confesses his love. During one of the gatherings this character hosts every Thursday, she secretly gives romantic advice to a man she met as a child in Neufchatel. This character reneges on a promise to go to Lockleigh, an estate home to a nobleman and his two sisters. This character first meets her aunt in a “dreary” house in (*) Albany. This character fails to convince her daughter-in-law Pansy to leave a convent and come to Gardencourt, where this woman’s cousin Ralph Touchett is dying. The desperate Caspar Goodwood pursues this woman since she is unhappily married to Gilbert Osmond. For 10 points, name this protagonist of Henry James’s novel The Portrait of a Lady. ■END■
Summary
2024 ARGOS @ Stanford | 02/22/2025 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 100% | 139.00 |
2024 ARGOS Online | 03/22/2025 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 134.00 |
2024 ARGOS @ Brandeis | 03/22/2025 | Y | 3 | 67% | 33% | 0% | 107.00 |
2024 ARGOS @ McMaster | 11/17/2024 | Y | 5 | 80% | 0% | 20% | 125.50 |
2024 ARGOS @ Columbia | 11/23/2024 | Y | 3 | 100% | 33% | 0% | 97.33 |
2024 ARGOS @ Chicago | 11/23/2024 | Y | 6 | 83% | 0% | 33% | 144.00 |
2024 ARGOS @ Christ's College | 12/14/2024 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 139.67 |
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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Halle Friedman | jeff mcneil #1 morningside heights fan club | Cope is the thing with feathers | 43 | 15 |
Jeremy Cummings | WashU | Who is the Colleen Hoover of the Zulus? | 65 | -5 |
Jordan Brownstein | "Powers a question on Stancyzk" that's a clown question bro | Banned from ARGOS | 89 | 15 |
Tim Morrison | Stanford+ | number of tang poems = 75 times number of lines in a shi = 100 times number of lines in a haiku | 99 | -5 |
Henry Atkins | Communism is Soviet power plus the yassification of the whole country | Simpson Agonistes: The Crisis of Donut | 109 | 10 |
Joey Sun | Moderator Can't Neg me While in Alpha | as rational as the square root of two power bottoms | 112 | -5 |
Matt Bollinger | BHSU ReFantazio | BHSU Rebirth | 113 | 10 |
Raymond Chen | She Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA Interfere | Ryan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan Quizbowlers | 113 | 10 |
Eve Fleisig | Berkeley | A is for Amy Robsart who fell down the stairs | 113 | 10 |
Neil Gurram | A is for Amy Robsart who fell down the stairs | Berkeley | 113 | -5 |
Ned Tagtmeier | The Love Song of J Alfred PrufRock and Roll All Nite (and Party Every Day) | Music to Help You Stop Smoking | 121 | -5 |
Hazel Depreist-Sullivan | NJ TRANSit (and anwen | Walston et. al. | 121 | 10 |
Kevin Wang | CLEVELAND, THIS IS FOR YOU! | I wish it were possible to freeze time so I would never have to watch you retire | 124 | 10 |
Adam Silverman | |madam| | Pahkin' the Ahgo | 125 | 10 |
John Xiang | Where are the ACF Nationals recordings? | Cry of the Common Loon | 125 | -5 |
Ben Russell Jones | Simple Vibes | Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz | 128 | 10 |
Eshan Pant | just one more half-dot bro | 12 Litres of Green Tea | 128 | 10 |
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 | 128 | 10 |
Ariel Faeder | throw away your cards, rally in the streets | Aw we're so sorry to hear that maman died today, she gets five big booms | 132 | 10 |
Daoud Jackson | Defying Suavity | Limp Francekit | 139 | 10 |
Russell Nip | UBC | Thompson et al. | 146 | 10 |
Yashwanth Bajji | Clown Squad | Notre Dame | 151 | 10 |
Khugan Chan | Import Pandas | Hu up Jinning they Tao | 152 | 0 |
Jonathan Schnipper | Hu up Jinning they Tao | Import Pandas | 152 | 0 |
Matt Lafer | Music to Help You Stop Smoking | The Love Song of J Alfred PrufRock and Roll All Nite (and Party Every Day) | 152 | 10 |
Logan Mathis | That Feeling When Knee Surgery Is in Five Days | Northeast by Northwestern | 152 | 10 |
Michael Hundiing | Who is the Colleen Hoover of the Zulus? | WashU | 152 | 10 |
Todd Maslyk | Clown Senpais | hawk two of | 152 | 0 |
Sinecio Morales | hawk two of | Clown Senpais | 152 | 0 |
Omer Keskin | Cien Años de Quizboledad | Cambridge | 152 | 10 |
Maude-Sophie Lockman | as rational as the square root of two power bottoms | Moderator Can't Neg me While in Alpha | 152 | 0 |
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 | 152 | 10 |
Taylor Harvey | Cry of the Common Loon | Where are the ACF Nationals recordings? | 152 | 10 |
Ryan Sun | number of tang poems = 75 times number of lines in a shi = 100 times number of lines in a haiku | Stanford+ | 152 | 10 |