Question
To entertain a sick boy, the protagonist of this novel reads the book A Bishop among the Bantus and pretends it’s about pirates. Near the end of Chimamanda Adichie’s Americanah, when Ifemelu reunites with Obinze, they discuss this novel, his mother’s favorite. This novel’s protagonist is haunted by the signature “Dicky” on a suicide note and imagines the word “Ticki,” the pet name his wife calls him, in its place. During an interview in Chinua Achebe’s No Longer at Ease, Obi humorously says that this novel was ruined by its “happy ending.” In this novel, the (*) agent Wilson despises the protagonist for having an affair with Helen Rolt. Soon after his servant Ali is killed due to his dealings with the diamond smuggler Yusuf, the protagonist of this novel, a police officer, commits suicide. For 10 points, Major Henry Scobie is the protagonist of what novel by Graham Greene set in West Africa? ■END■
Summary
2024 ARGOS @ Stanford | 02/22/2025 | Y | 3 | 33% | 0% | 67% | 117.00 |
2024 ARGOS Online | 03/22/2025 | N | 3 | 67% | 0% | 33% | 140.50 |
2024 ARGOS @ Brandeis | 03/22/2025 | N | 3 | 33% | 0% | 33% | 148.00 |
2024 ARGOS @ McMaster | 11/17/2024 | Y | 4 | 25% | 25% | 25% | 77.00 |
2024 ARGOS @ Chicago | 11/23/2024 | Y | 6 | 50% | 0% | 17% | 133.33 |
2024 ARGOS @ Columbia | 11/23/2024 | Y | 3 | 67% | 0% | 33% | 147.50 |
2024 ARGOS @ Christ's College | 12/14/2024 | Y | 3 | 67% | 0% | 0% | 135.00 |
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
---|---|---|---|---|
Raymond Chen | She Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA Interfere | as rational as the square root of two power bottoms | 43 | -5 |
Mattias Ehatamm | You cannot go to Aarhus to see his peat-brown head / With eyes like ripening fruit | Communism is Soviet power plus the yassification of the whole country | 77 | 15 |
Matt Bollinger | BHSU ReFantazio | WashU | 106 | 10 |
Omer Keskin | Cien Años de Quizboledad | Defying Suavity | 117 | 10 |
Eve Fleisig | Berkeley | Where are the ACF Nationals recordings? | 117 | 10 |
Neil Gurram | A is for Amy Robsart who fell down the stairs | Stanford+ | 127 | -5 |
Hari Parameswaran | Cry of the Common Loon | number of tang poems = 75 times number of lines in a shi = 100 times number of lines in a haiku | 140 | -5 |
Ned Tagtmeier | The Love Song of J Alfred PrufRock and Roll All Nite (and Party Every Day) | Who is the Colleen Hoover of the Zulus? | 142 | 10 |
Eshan Pant | just one more half-dot bro | Walston et. al. | 142 | -5 |
Hazel Depreist-Sullivan | NJ TRANSit (and anwen i guess) | jeff mcneil #1 morningside heights fan club | 142 | 10 |
Matt Lafer | Music to Help You Stop Smoking | BHSU Rebirth | 145 | -5 |
Rob Carson | BHSU Rebirth | Music to Help You Stop Smoking | 152 | 10 |
Todd Maslyk | Clown Senpais | Clown Squad | 153 | 0 |
Patrick Quion | Northeast by Northwestern | Notre Dame | 153 | 0 |
Zach Joseph | Notre Dame | Northeast by Northwestern | 153 | 0 |
Sinecio Morales | hawk two of | That Feeling When Knee Surgery Is in Five Days | 153 | 0 |
Logan Mathis | That Feeling When Knee Surgery Is in Five Days | hawk two of | 153 | 0 |
Leo Tao | Clown Squad | Clown Senpais | 153 | 0 |
Ben Russell Jones | Simple Vibes | Cambridge | 153 | 10 |
Oscar Siddle | Limp Franceskit | Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz | 153 | 0 |
Michael Wu | Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz | Limp Franceskit | 153 | 0 |
Ryan Rosenberg | Cope is the thing with feathers | 12 Litres of Green Tea | 153 | 10 |
Albert Zhang | Walston et. al. | just one more half-dot bro | 153 | 0 |
Zaid Asif | 12 Litres of Green Tea | Cope is the thing with feathers | 153 | 0 |
Caleb Ott | Tensei Shitara Flashcard Data Ken | Moderator Can't Neg me While in Alpha | 153 | 0 |
Maude-Sophie Lockman | as rational as the square root of two power bottoms | She Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA Interfere | 153 | 0 |
Erik Christensen | I'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up | The Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork Orange | 153 | 0 |
Adil Haider | The Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork Orange | I'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up | 153 | 0 |
Tim Morrison | Stanford+ | A is for Amy Robsart who fell down the stairs | 153 | 0 |
Ryan Sun | number of tang poems = 75 times number of lines in a shi = 100 times number of lines in a haiku | Cry of the Common Loon | 153 | 0 |