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 (-5[1])listens to a widow with eight former husbands criticize a nearly seventy-year-old man for remarrying. (15[1])In a novel partly titled for this place, the narrator fails to burn a secret library with an English fireplace (-5[1])after learning (15[1])of a murder-suicide (15[1])caused by a forced marriage. (15[1])A character in a novel titled for this place lectures on (*) Abu Nuwas at Oxford (10[1])and (10[1])claims (10[2])“Othello (10[1])was a lie.” (10[2])The narrator of a novel partly titled (10[1])for this place decides not to drown himself (10[1])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 (10[2])about a “Season of Migration”? ■END■ (10[5])

ANSWER: the north [accept Season of Migration to the North; accept North of Dawn]
<Literature - World Literature - Long Fiction>
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Summary

2024 ARGOS @ Stanford02/22/2025Y3100%33%0%102.67
2024 ARGOS Online03/22/2025N3100%0%0%127.33
2024 ARGOS @ Brandeis03/22/2025N3100%33%0%132.33
2024 ARGOS @ McMaster11/17/2024Y5100%0%20%137.80
2024 ARGOS @ Chicago11/23/2024Y6100%17%0%123.67
2024 ARGOS @ Columbia11/23/2024Y3100%33%33%120.67
2024 ARGOS @ Christ's College12/14/2024Y3100%33%0%105.33

Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Ryan RosenbergCope is the thing with feathersjeff mcneil #1 morningside heights fan club45-5
Andrew WangBHSU ReFantazioBHSU Rebirth6015
Adil HaiderThe Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork OrangeYou cannot go to Aarhus to see his peat-brown head / With eyes like ripening fruit80-5
Omer KeskinCien Años de QuizboledadCambridge8215
Will AlstonWalston et. al.NJ TRANSit (and anwen8515
Stephen LiuWhere are the ACF Nationals recordings?Cry of the Common Loon9015
Caleb OttTensei Shitara Flashcard Data KenI'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up10510
Ned TagtmeierThe Love Song of J Alfred PrufRock and Roll All Nite (and Party Every Day)Music to Help You Stop Smoking10610
Tony ChenSimpson Agonistes: The Crisis of DonutCommunism is Soviet power plus the yassification of the whole country10710
Tim MorrisonStanford+number of tang poems = 75 times number of lines in a shi = 100 times number of lines in a haiku10710
Daoud JacksonDefying SuavityLimp Francekit10810
Michael HundiingWho is the Colleen Hoover of the Zulus?WashU11110
Eve FleisigBerkeleyA is for Amy Robsart who fell down the stairs11110
Jeremy Tsaijust one more half-dot bro12 Litres of Green Tea11810
Ben Russell JonesSimple VibesGrzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz12610
Yashwanth BajjiClown SquadNotre Dame15310
Sinecio Moraleshawk two ofClown Senpais15310
Liam StarnesThat Feeling When Knee Surgery Is in Five DaysNortheast by Northwestern15910
Halle Friedmanjeff mcneil #1 morningside heights fan clubCope is the thing with feathers15910
Maude-Sophie Lockmanas rational as the square root of two power bottomsModerator Can't Neg me While in Alpha15910
Raymond ChenShe Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA InterfereRyan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan Quizbowlers15910
Mattias EhatammYou cannot go to Aarhus to see his peat-brown head / With eyes like ripening fruitThe Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork Orange15910