Question
A character created by this author titles a painting in which a seated, bare-chested woman wears a large hat and robe of the same red color and mossy decalcomania texture as the surrounding landscape. For a Maecenas Press printing of a book by this author, a melting clock table was illustrated in one of twelve heliogravures by Salvador Dali. One reptile’s body serves as a ship on which six similar figures sit in a painting and sculpture titled for a poem by this author and created by (*) Leonora Carrington. This author dropped the chapter “The Wasp in a Wig” on the advice of an illustrator who drew a duchess based on Quentin Matsys’s Ugly Duchess, per an annotated edition by Martin Gardner. This author created a character who wears a horseshoe-shaped headband now named for her in illustrations by John Tenniel. For 10 points, name this author of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. ■END■
Summary
2024 ARGOS @ Stanford | 02/22/2025 | N | 3 | 100% | 67% | 0% | 88.33 |
2024 ARGOS @ Brandeis | 03/22/2025 | N | 3 | 100% | 33% | 0% | 98.00 |
2024 ARGOS Online | 03/22/2025 | N | 3 | 100% | 0% | 67% | 137.33 |
2024 ARGOS @ McMaster | 11/17/2024 | Y | 5 | 100% | 20% | 0% | 125.00 |
2024 ARGOS @ Chicago | 11/23/2024 | Y | 6 | 100% | 17% | 0% | 118.67 |
2024 ARGOS @ Columbia | 11/23/2024 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 135.00 |
2024 ARGOS @ Christ's College | 12/14/2024 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 116.67 |
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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Henry Atkins | Communism is Soviet power plus the yassification of the whole country | Ryan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan Quizbowlers | 83 | 15 |
Sinecio Morales | hawk two of | Northeast by Northwestern | 85 | 15 |
Justin Wytmar | Who is the Colleen Hoover of the Zulus? | BHSU ReFantazio | 93 | 10 |
Oscar Siddle | Limp Francekit | Simple Vibes | 111 | 10 |
Emmett Laurie | jeff mcneil #1 morningside heights fan club | Walston et. al. | 113 | 10 |
Henry Cafaro | The Love Song of J Alfred PrufRock and Roll All Nite (and Party Every Day) | BHSU Rebirth | 114 | 10 |
Omer Keskin | Cien Años de Quizboledad | Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz | 114 | 10 |
Annabelle Yang | WashU | Music to Help You Stop Smoking | 121 | 10 |
Oliver Hargrave | Defying Suavity | Cambridge | 125 | 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 | 126 | 10 |
Caleb Ott | Tensei Shitara Flashcard Data Ken | Simpson Agonistes: The Crisis of Donut | 130 | 10 |
Kunaal Chandrashekar | as rational as the square root of two power bottoms | The Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork Orange | 137 | 10 |
Anwen Kelleher | NJ TRANSit (and anwen | 12 Litres of Green Tea | 140 | -5 |
Eshan Pant | just one more half-dot bro | Cope is the thing with feathers | 140 | 10 |
Logan Mathis | That Feeling When Knee Surgery Is in Five Days | Clown Squad | 147 | 10 |
Asha Basu | I'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up | Moderator Can't Neg me While in Alpha | 149 | 10 |
Stephen Heritage | Notre Dame | Clown Senpais | 152 | 10 |
Zaid Asif | 12 Litres of Green Tea | NJ TRANSit (and anwen | 152 | 10 |