Question
An author from this country is warned “pride goeth before a fall” and told to pray for forgiveness after telling her teacher she wanted to write like Wordsworth. After the death of her father seventeen years prior, a travel author wrote about exploring a deserted amusement park in this country in the book Looking for Transwonderland. An epistolary essay by an author from this country uses the example of Theresa May and her husband to argue against “Feminism Lite” in one of its (*) fifteen title “suggestions.” An author from this country described herself as a “feminist with a small ‘f’” in an essay recounting her education prior to writing her novel Second Class Citizen. An author from this country noted “there’s a problem with gender as it is today” in a book adapted from a TED talk. For 10 points, name this home country of the author of We Should All Be Feminists, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. ■END■
Summary
2024 ARGOS @ Stanford | 02/22/2025 | Y | 3 | 100% | 33% | 0% | 81.33 |
2024 ARGOS @ Brandeis | 03/22/2025 | N | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 103.67 |
2024 ARGOS Online | 03/22/2025 | N | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 124.67 |
2024 ARGOS @ McMaster | 11/17/2024 | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 20% | 138.00 |
2024 ARGOS @ Columbia | 11/23/2024 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 110.67 |
2024 ARGOS @ Chicago | 11/23/2024 | Y | 6 | 100% | 17% | 17% | 123.00 |
2024 ARGOS @ Christ's College | 12/14/2024 | N | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 119.67 |
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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Yihong Chen | Moderator Can't Neg me While in Alpha | The Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork Orange | 36 | -5 |
Taylor Harvey | Cry of the Common Loon | Stanford+ | 58 | 15 |
Ned Tagtmeier | The Love Song of J Alfred PrufRock and Roll All Nite (and Party Every Day) | WashU | 78 | 15 |
Jason Golfinos | Where are the ACF Nationals recordings? | A is for Amy Robsart who fell down the stairs | 84 | 10 |
Isaac Kirk-Davidoff | jeff mcneil #1 morningside heights fan club | 12 Litres of Green Tea | 87 | 10 |
Vincent Du | number of tang poems = 75 times number of lines in a shi = 100 times number of lines in a haiku | Berkeley | 102 | 10 |
Anwen Kelleher | NJ TRANSit (and anwen i guess) | just one more half-dot bro | 108 | 10 |
Sinecio Morales | hawk two of | Clown Squad | 113 | 10 |
Matt Bollinger | BHSU ReFantazio | Music to Help You Stop Smoking | 119 | 10 |
Erik Christensen | I'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up | Ryan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan Quizbowlers | 128 | 10 |
William Houston | That Feeling When Knee Surgery Is in Five Days | Notre Dame | 136 | 10 |
Tejas Raje | BHSU Rebirth | Who is the Colleen Hoover of the Zulus? | 136 | 10 |
Gareth Thorlakson | Simpson Agonistes: The Crisis of Donut | Communism is Soviet power plus the yassification of the whole country | 136 | 10 |
Mattias Ehatamm | You cannot go to Aarhus to see his peat-brown head / With eyes like ripening fruit | as rational as the square root of two power bottoms | 136 | 10 |
Ryan Rosenberg | Cope is the thing with feathers | Walston et. al. | 137 | 10 |
Raymond Chen | She Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA Interfere | Tensei Shitara Flashcard Data Ken | 138 | 10 |
Patrick Quion | Northeast by Northwestern | Clown Senpais | 139 | -5 |
Adrian Wong | The Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork Orange | Moderator Can't Neg me While in Alpha | 152 | 10 |
Todd Maslyk | Clown Senpais | Northeast by Northwestern | 156 | 10 |