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” through a wheat field. 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 | Y | 3 | 100% | 33% | 33% | 118.67 |
2024 ARGOS Online | 03/22/2025 | Y | 3 | 100% | 33% | 33% | 79.00 |
2024 ARGOS @ Brandeis | 03/22/2025 | Y | 3 | 100% | 33% | 0% | 92.33 |
2024 ARGOS @ McMaster | 11/17/2024 | N | 5 | 100% | 20% | 40% | 120.40 |
2024 ARGOS @ Chicago | 11/23/2024 | N | 6 | 100% | 33% | 33% | 106.00 |
2024 ARGOS @ Columbia | 11/23/2024 | N | 3 | 100% | 33% | 0% | 112.00 |
2024 ARGOS @ Christ's College | 12/14/2024 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 116.00 |
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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Walter Zhang | Import Pandas | Banned from ARGOS | 46 | 15 |
Evan Ting | Aw we're so sorry to hear that maman died today, she gets five big booms | Thompson et al. | 59 | -5 |
King Vidor | I wish it were possible to freeze time so I would never have to watch you retire | UBC | 59 | 15 |
Eve Fleisig | Berkeley | Where are the ACF Nationals recordings? | 70 | 15 |
Robin Danko | throw away your cards, rally in the streets | CLEVELAND, THIS IS FOR YOU! | 84 | 10 |
Sam Moore | Simple Vibes | Cambridge | 89 | 10 |
Joel Miles | Thompson et al. | Aw we're so sorry to hear that maman died today, she gets five big booms | 94 | 10 |
Jordan Brownstein | "Powers a question on Stancyzk" that's a clown question bro | Pahkin' the Ahgo | 97 | 10 |
Frances Hadley | Limp Francekit | Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz | 107 | 10 |
Anuttam Ramji | 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 | 123 | -5 |
Adam Silverman | |madam| | Hu up Jinning they Tao | 134 | 10 |
Anderson Wang | A is for Amy Robsart who fell down the stairs | Stanford+ | 134 | 10 |
Brendan Bethlehem | Cien Años de Quizboledad | Defying Suavity | 149 | -5 |
Claire Jones | Defying Suavity | Cien Años de Quizboledad | 152 | 10 |
Kevin Ye | 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 | 152 | 10 |