Question
An author from this country was acquitted in a blasphemy trial for depicting himself in one of his novels having sex with God incarnated as a donkey. A character reflects on the Eucharist while watching a Japanese bowl being rotated in a novel from this country titled Rituals. In a novel set in this country, a character claims that he was elected pope in jail while imprisoned with Du Guesclin (“doo gess-CLAHN”). A narrator living in this country recounts that during his life in (*) Paris, he was punched in the ear by a motorcyclist while stuck in traffic. In a novel set in this country, a character who regrets ignoring a woman who jumped off a bridge reveals that due to his affiliation with the bar Mexico City, he owns the stolen panel painting The Just Judges. For 10 points, Jean-Baptiste Clamence compares the canals of what country’s capital to the circles of Hell in Albert Camus’ The Fall? ■END■
Summary
2024 ARGOS @ Stanford | 02/22/2025 | Y | 3 | 67% | 0% | 33% | 125.50 |
2024 ARGOS Online | 03/22/2025 | N | 3 | 100% | 0% | 67% | 149.33 |
2024 ARGOS @ Brandeis | 03/22/2025 | N | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 132.00 |
2024 ARGOS @ McMaster | 11/17/2024 | Y | 5 | 80% | 0% | 80% | 149.50 |
2024 ARGOS @ Chicago | 11/23/2024 | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 50% | 138.50 |
2024 ARGOS @ Columbia | 11/23/2024 | Y | 3 | 33% | 33% | 67% | 51.00 |
2024 ARGOS @ Christ's College | 12/14/2024 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 67% | 147.67 |
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
---|---|---|---|---|
Todd Maslyk | Clown Senpais | Northeast by Northwestern | 51 | -5 |
John Lawrence | Walston et. al. | Cope is the thing with feathers | 51 | 15 |
Rob Carson | BHSU Rebirth | Who is the Colleen Hoover of the Zulus? | 54 | -5 |
Erik Christensen | I'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up | as rational as the square root of two power bottoms | 91 | -5 |
Frances Hadley | Limp Franceskit | Defying Suavity | 94 | -5 |
Ned Tagtmeier | The Love Song of J Alfred PrufRock and Roll All Nite (and Party Every Day) | Notre Dame | 95 | 10 |
Hari Parameswaran | Cry of the Common Loon | Stanford+ | 109 | -5 |
Stephen Liu | Where are the ACF Nationals recordings? | A is for Amy Robsart who fell down the stairs | 114 | 10 |
Matt Bollinger | BHSU ReFantazio | Music to Help You Stop Smoking | 119 | 10 |
Hazel Depreist-Sullivan | NJ TRANSit (and anwen i guess) | just one more half-dot bro | 123 | -5 |
Jared He | You cannot go to Aarhus to see his peat-brown head / With eyes like ripening fruit | Simpson Agonistes: The Crisis of Donut | 125 | -5 |
Adrian Wong | The Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork Orange | Communism is Soviet power plus the yassification of the whole country | 128 | 10 |
Ben Russell Jones | Simple Vibes | Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz | 129 | 10 |
Raymond Chen | She Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA Interfere | Moderator Can't Neg me While in Alpha | 130 | -5 |
Caleb Ott | Tensei Shitara Flashcard Data Ken | Ryan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan Quizbowlers | 133 | -5 |
Omer Keskin | Cien Años de Quizboledad | Cambridge | 134 | -5 |
Halle Friedman | jeff mcneil #1 morningside heights fan club | 12 Litres of Green Tea | 134 | -5 |
Kevin Ye | number of tang poems = 75 times number of lines in a shi = 100 times number of lines in a haiku | Berkeley | 137 | 10 |
Yashwanth Bajji | Clown Squad | That Feeling When Knee Surgery Is in Five Days | 139 | -5 |
Charles Hang | WashU | hawk two of | 146 | 10 |
Ishan Joshi | Ryan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan Quizbowlers | Tensei Shitara Flashcard Data Ken | 156 | 10 |
Michael Hundiing | Who is the Colleen Hoover of the Zulus? | BHSU Rebirth | 157 | 10 |
William Houston | That Feeling When Knee Surgery Is in Five Days | Clown Squad | 157 | 10 |
Matt Schiavone | Northeast by Northwestern | Clown Senpais | 157 | 10 |
Ian McDowell | Cambridge | Cien Años de Quizboledad | 157 | 10 |
Claire Jones | Defying Suavity | Limp Franceskit | 157 | 10 |
Zaid Asif | 12 Litres of Green Tea | jeff mcneil #1 morningside heights fan club | 157 | 0 |
Cooper Roh | just one more half-dot bro | NJ TRANSit (and anwen i guess) | 157 | 0 |
Aaron Dos Remedios | Moderator Can't Neg me While in Alpha | She Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA Interfere | 157 | 0 |
Tony Chen | Simpson Agonistes: The Crisis of Donut | You cannot go to Aarhus to see his peat-brown head / With eyes like ripening fruit | 157 | 10 |
Maude-Sophie Lockman | as rational as the square root of two power bottoms | I'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up | 157 | 10 |
Tim Morrison | Stanford+ | Cry of the Common Loon | 157 | 0 |