Question
In a novel by this author, a man is accused of robbing a dead woman’s body on a beach after finding a notebook he had previously written in with a stolen pencil. The protagonist of a novel by this author finds a death threat on a bookmark signed by the “ghost of Wyndham Lewis” after presenting a paper on Roland Barthes titled “F/V” to the Nouveau Roman Society. A character converses in dreams with Enlightenment thinkers like John Locke and Voltaire in a novel by this author framed by a songbook belonging to Daniel Decatur Emmett. Juanita Mae Jenkins’s (*) We’s Lives In Da Ghetto satirizes Sapphire’s Push in a novel by this author about a professor’s rise to fame after publishing the parodic novel My Pafology. A 2024 novel by this author retells the events of Huckleberry Finn from the perspective of Jim. For 10 points, name this contemporary African-American author of Erasure and James. ■END■
Summary
2024 ARGOS @ Stanford | 02/22/2025 | Y | 3 | 100% | 33% | 0% | 96.33 |
2024 ARGOS Online | 03/22/2025 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 143.00 |
2024 ARGOS @ Brandeis | 03/22/2025 | Y | 3 | 100% | 67% | 0% | 80.33 |
2024 ARGOS @ McMaster | 11/17/2024 | Y | 4 | 100% | 25% | 25% | 113.00 |
2024 ARGOS @ Columbia | 11/23/2024 | Y | 3 | 67% | 0% | 33% | 130.00 |
2024 ARGOS @ Chicago | 11/23/2024 | Y | 6 | 67% | 33% | 17% | 99.75 |
2024 ARGOS @ Christ's College | 12/14/2024 | Y | 3 | 100% | 33% | 0% | 110.33 |
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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Jordan Brownstein | "Powers a question on Stancyzk" that's a clown question bro | Hu up Jinning they Tao | 33 | 15 |
Henry Atkins | Communism is Soviet power plus the yassification of the whole country | She Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA Interfere | 38 | 15 |
Ned Tagtmeier | The Love Song of J Alfred PrufRock and Roll All Nite (and Party Every Day) | Clown Senpais | 55 | -5 |
John Xiang | Where are the ACF Nationals recordings? | Stanford+ | 75 | 15 |
Adam Silverman | |madam| | Import Pandas | 83 | 15 |
Mike Bentley | Music to Help You Stop Smoking | Clown Squad | 83 | 15 |
Benjamin Watson | Limp Franceskit | Cambridge | 94 | 15 |
Matt Bollinger | BHSU ReFantazio | hawk two of | 95 | 15 |
Taylor Harvey | Cry of the Common Loon | Berkeley | 103 | 10 |
John Lawrence | Walston et. al. | 12 Litres of Green Tea | 104 | -5 |
Tejas Raje | BHSU Rebirth | Notre Dame | 109 | 10 |
Anderson Wang | A is for Amy Robsart who fell down the stairs | number of tang poems = 75 times number of lines in a shi = 100 times number of lines in a haiku | 111 | 10 |
Michael Hundiing | Who is the Colleen Hoover of the Zulus? | Northeast by Northwestern | 112 | 10 |
Omer Keskin | Cien Años de Quizboledad | Simple Vibes | 112 | 10 |
Adrian Wong | The Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork Orange | Ryan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan Quizbowlers | 115 | 10 |
Ryan Rosenberg | Cope is the thing with feathers | NJ TRANSit (and anwen | 120 | 10 |
Tai Belke | UBC | CLEVELAND, THIS IS FOR YOU! | 123 | -5 |
Jaimie Carlson | Banned from ARGOS | Pahkin' the Ahgo | 125 | 10 |
Antoni Kluzowski | Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz | Defying Suavity | 125 | 10 |
Henry Bon | 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 | 132 | 10 |
Aaron Dos Remedios | Moderator Can't Neg me While in Alpha | You cannot go to Aarhus to see his peat-brown head / With eyes like ripening fruit | 135 | -5 |
Halle Friedman | jeff mcneil #1 morningside heights fan club | just one more half-dot bro | 140 | 10 |
Joel Miles | Thompson et al. | throw away your cards, rally in the streets | 142 | 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 | 145 | 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 | 154 | 10 |
Coby Tran | That Feeling When Knee Surgery Is in Five Days | WashU | 155 | 0 |
Zaid Asif | 12 Litres of Green Tea | Walston et. al. | 155 | 0 |
Steven Yuan | CLEVELAND, THIS IS FOR YOU! | UBC | 155 | 10 |