Question
In a novel titled for this place, a translator of Ole Rølvaag’s Giants in the Earth takes in the family of his son, who became a suicide bomber. While visiting a grandfather who rubs prayer beads, a character in a novel partly titled for this place listens to a widow with eight former husbands criticize a nearly seventy-year-old man for remarrying. In a novel partly titled for this place, the narrator fails to burn a secret library with an English fireplace after learning of a murder-suicide caused by a forced marriage. A character in a novel titled for this place lectures on (*) Abu Nuwas at Oxford and claims “Othello was a lie.” The narrator of a novel partly titled for this place decides not to drown himself in the Nile unlike a benefactor, who murders his wife Jean Morris while studying in England. For 10 points, what place partly names a Tayeb Salih novel about a “Season of Migration”? ■END■
Summary
2024 ARGOS @ Stanford | 02/22/2025 | Y | 3 | 100% | 33% | 0% | 102.67 |
2024 ARGOS Online | 03/22/2025 | N | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 127.33 |
2024 ARGOS @ Brandeis | 03/22/2025 | N | 3 | 100% | 33% | 0% | 132.33 |
2024 ARGOS @ McMaster | 11/17/2024 | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 20% | 137.80 |
2024 ARGOS @ Chicago | 11/23/2024 | Y | 6 | 100% | 17% | 0% | 123.67 |
2024 ARGOS @ Columbia | 11/23/2024 | Y | 3 | 100% | 33% | 33% | 120.67 |
2024 ARGOS @ Christ's College | 12/14/2024 | Y | 3 | 100% | 33% | 0% | 105.33 |
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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Ryan Rosenberg | Cope is the thing with feathers | jeff mcneil #1 morningside heights fan club | 45 | -5 |
Andrew Wang | BHSU ReFantazio | BHSU Rebirth | 60 | 15 |
Adil Haider | The Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork Orange | You cannot go to Aarhus to see his peat-brown head / With eyes like ripening fruit | 80 | -5 |
Omer Keskin | Cien Años de Quizboledad | Cambridge | 82 | 15 |
Will Alston | Walston et. al. | NJ TRANSit (and anwen | 85 | 15 |
Stephen Liu | Where are the ACF Nationals recordings? | Cry of the Common Loon | 90 | 15 |
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 | 105 | 10 |
Ned Tagtmeier | The Love Song of J Alfred PrufRock and Roll All Nite (and Party Every Day) | Music to Help You Stop Smoking | 106 | 10 |
Tony Chen | Simpson Agonistes: The Crisis of Donut | Communism is Soviet power plus the yassification of the whole country | 107 | 10 |
Tim Morrison | Stanford+ | number of tang poems = 75 times number of lines in a shi = 100 times number of lines in a haiku | 107 | 10 |
Daoud Jackson | Defying Suavity | Limp Francekit | 108 | 10 |
Michael Hundiing | Who is the Colleen Hoover of the Zulus? | WashU | 111 | 10 |
Eve Fleisig | Berkeley | A is for Amy Robsart who fell down the stairs | 111 | 10 |
Jeremy Tsai | just one more half-dot bro | 12 Litres of Green Tea | 118 | 10 |
Ben Russell Jones | Simple Vibes | Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz | 126 | 10 |
Yashwanth Bajji | Clown Squad | Notre Dame | 153 | 10 |
Sinecio Morales | hawk two of | Clown Senpais | 153 | 10 |
Liam Starnes | That Feeling When Knee Surgery Is in Five Days | Northeast by Northwestern | 159 | 10 |
Halle Friedman | jeff mcneil #1 morningside heights fan club | Cope is the thing with feathers | 159 | 10 |
Maude-Sophie Lockman | as rational as the square root of two power bottoms | Moderator Can't Neg me While in Alpha | 159 | 10 |
Raymond Chen | She Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA Interfere | Ryan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan Quizbowlers | 159 | 10 |
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 | 159 | 10 |