Question
The narrator looks “like one of those flies that buzz around blindly on the window pane” while trying to find this object via an “informal trail.” The narrator sees this object save Beggar Man and his dog from death a few days before Manager moves her and Rosa to an alcove far away from this object. This object agrees to provide his “special nourishment” when the narrator offers to destroy Pollution in a building she believes contains stairs to the (*) underworld. The narrator has a one-sided conversation with this title object in Mr. McBain’s barn in which she promises to destroy the Cootings Machine. The narrator enlists the help of this title anthropomorphized object to cure the illness of Josie, for whom she cares as an Artificial Friend. For 10 points, name this large object that appears in the title of a Kazuo Ishiguro novel narrated by Klara. ■END■
Summary
2024 ARGOS @ Stanford | 02/22/2025 | N | 3 | 100% | 33% | 33% | 118.67 |
2024 ARGOS @ Brandeis | 03/22/2025 | N | 3 | 100% | 33% | 0% | 92.33 |
2024 ARGOS Online | 03/22/2025 | N | 3 | 100% | 33% | 33% | 79.00 |
2024 ARGOS @ McMaster | 11/17/2024 | Y | 5 | 100% | 20% | 40% | 120.40 |
2024 ARGOS @ Chicago | 11/23/2024 | Y | 6 | 100% | 33% | 33% | 106.00 |
2024 ARGOS @ Columbia | 11/23/2024 | Y | 3 | 100% | 33% | 0% | 112.00 |
2024 ARGOS @ Christ's College | 12/14/2024 | N | 3 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 116.00 |
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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Sinecio Morales | hawk two of | Clown Squad | 38 | 15 |
Adrian Wong | The Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork Orange | She Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA Interfere | 47 | -5 |
Raymond Chen | She Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA Interfere | The Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork Orange | 55 | 15 |
Akshar Goyal | Who is the Colleen Hoover of the Zulus? | Clown Senpais | 61 | 15 |
Eshan Pant | just one more half-dot bro | Walston et. al. | 61 | 15 |
Ishan Joshi | Ryan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan Quizbowlers | Moderator Can't Neg me While in Alpha | 69 | -5 |
Mike Bentley | Music to Help You Stop Smoking | That Feeling When Knee Surgery Is in Five Days | 73 | -5 |
Matt Bollinger | BHSU ReFantazio | WashU | 102 | 10 |
Sky Li | Simpson Agonistes: The Crisis of Donut | as rational as the square root of two power bottoms | 103 | 10 |
Ned Tagtmeier | The Love Song of J Alfred PrufRock and Roll All Nite (and Party Every Day) | BHSU Rebirth | 127 | -5 |
Hazel Depreist-Sullivan | NJ TRANSit (and anwen | jeff mcneil #1 morningside heights fan club | 127 | 10 |
Will Sanders | Notre Dame | Northeast by Northwestern | 143 | 10 |
Logan Mathis | That Feeling When Knee Surgery Is in Five Days | Music to Help You Stop Smoking | 144 | 10 |
Rob Carson | BHSU Rebirth | The Love Song of J Alfred PrufRock and Roll All Nite (and Party Every Day) | 148 | 10 |
Ryan Rosenberg | Cope is the thing with feathers | 12 Litres of Green Tea | 148 | 10 |
Joey Sun | Moderator Can't Neg me While in Alpha | Ryan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan Quizbowlers | 148 | 10 |
Caleb Ott | Tensei Shitara Flashcard Data Ken | You cannot go to Aarhus to see his peat-brown head / With eyes like ripening fruit | 148 | 10 |
Henry Atkins | Communism is Soviet power plus the yassification of the whole country | I'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up | 148 | 10 |