Question
A story by this author ends after a hungover man who promised to host a dinner party is found by his angry guests hiding in the title vehicle. In a story by this author, a man becomes a monk to purify his soul after painting a religious scene in which every figure had demonic eyes. In that story by this author, a painter abandons his style and paints for aristocrats after a bag of money is found in the frame of a cursed portrait of a moneylender. Near the end of a story by this author, a cobbler named (*) Hoffmann helps beat up an officer for dancing with the wife of a tinsmith named Schiller. This author of the collection Arabesques wrote a story in which a painter who takes opium to dream of a dark-haired prostitute is contrasted with Lieutenant Pirogov, who followed a blonde woman down the title street. For 10 points, name this author who included the story “Nevsky Prospect” in his Petersburg Tales. ■END■
Summary
2024 ARGOS @ Stanford | 02/22/2025 | Y | 3 | 100% | 33% | 0% | 92.67 |
2024 ARGOS Online | 03/22/2025 | Y | 3 | 100% | 67% | 0% | 99.00 |
2024 ARGOS @ Brandeis | 03/22/2025 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 151.33 |
2024 ARGOS @ McMaster | 11/17/2024 | Y | 5 | 100% | 20% | 20% | 140.80 |
2024 ARGOS @ Columbia | 11/23/2024 | Y | 3 | 100% | 33% | 0% | 125.67 |
2024 ARGOS @ Chicago | 11/23/2024 | Y | 6 | 100% | 33% | 17% | 130.83 |
2024 ARGOS @ Christ's College | 12/14/2024 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 137.00 |
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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Kevin Ye | number of tang poems = 75 times number of lines in a shi = 100 times number of lines in a haiku | Stanford+ | 26 | 15 |
John Marvin | The Love Song of J Alfred PrufRock and Roll All Nite (and Party Every Day) | Music to Help You Stop Smoking | 65 | -5 |
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 | 69 | 15 |
Matt Bollinger | BHSU ReFantazio | BHSU Rebirth | 74 | 15 |
Will Alston | Walston et. al. | NJ TRANSit (and anwen | 76 | 15 |
Kevin Wang | CLEVELAND, THIS IS FOR YOU! | I wish it were possible to freeze time so I would never have to watch you retire | 79 | 15 |
Oliver Hargrave | Defying Suavity | Limp Francekit | 83 | -5 |
Michael Hundiing | Who is the Colleen Hoover of the Zulus? | WashU | 89 | 15 |
Mattias Ehatamm | You cannot go to Aarhus to see his peat-brown head / With eyes like ripening fruit | The Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork Orange | 98 | 15 |
Omer Keskin | Cien Años de Quizboledad | Cambridge | 109 | 10 |
Henry Atkins | Communism is Soviet power plus the yassification of the whole country | Simpson Agonistes: The Crisis of Donut | 120 | 10 |
Neil Gurram | A is for Amy Robsart who fell down the stairs | Berkeley | 120 | 10 |
Jordan Brownstein | "Powers a question on Stancyzk" that's a clown question bro | Banned from ARGOS | 130 | 10 |
Anuttam Ramji | Cry of the Common Loon | Where are the ACF Nationals recordings? | 132 | 10 |
Ben Russell Jones | Simple Vibes | Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz | 135 | 10 |
Yashwanth Bajji | Clown Squad | Notre Dame | 142 | 10 |
Jeremy Tsai | just one more half-dot bro | 12 Litres of Green Tea | 146 | 10 |
Joel Miles | Thompson et al. | UBC | 149 | 10 |
Sinecio Morales | hawk two of | Clown Senpais | 150 | 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 | 150 | -5 |
Raymond Chen | She Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA Interfere | Ryan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan Quizbowlers | 152 | 10 |
Emmett Laurie | jeff mcneil #1 morningside heights fan club | Cope is the thing with feathers | 155 | 10 |
Andrew Gao | Import Pandas | Hu up Jinning they Tao | 162 | 10 |
Adam Silverman | |madam| | Pahkin' the Ahgo | 162 | 10 |
Matt Lafer | Music to Help You Stop Smoking | The Love Song of J Alfred PrufRock and Roll All Nite (and Party Every Day) | 165 | 10 |
Jacob Puthipiroj | Northeast by Northwestern | That Feeling When Knee Surgery Is in Five Days | 165 | 10 |
Frances Hadley | Limp Francekit | Defying Suavity | 167 | 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 | 167 | 10 |
Yihong Chen | Moderator Can't Neg me While in Alpha | as rational as the square root of two power bottoms | 167 | 10 |