Question
In this essay, the author recounts meeting a black soldier who shows him “the marvels of Dick Tracy and Li’l Abner.” This essay mentions an artist who “wanted to kill” the moonlight who was appointed to a position “which treated moonlight with great respect.” This essay uses Wittgenstein’s family resemblance to analyze the decreasing commonalities of abc, bcd, cde, and def. This essay notes how the “ersatz phallic exercise” of “[playing] with weapons” is a tendency of an archetypal (*) hero who is “impatient to die.” This essay calls Gabriele D’Annunzio “a dandy who in Germany or in Russia would have been sent to the firing squad.” Common properties of this essay’s title system include “selective populism,” “action for action’s sake,” and a “cult of tradition.” For 10 points, “Fourteen Ways of Looking at a Blackshirt” is the subtitle of what essay by Umberto Eco analyzing a political system? ■END■
Summary
2024 ARGOS @ Stanford | 02/22/2025 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 126.33 |
2024 ARGOS Online | 03/22/2025 | Y | 3 | 100% | 67% | 0% | 66.00 |
2024 ARGOS @ Brandeis | 03/22/2025 | Y | 3 | 67% | 0% | 33% | 139.50 |
2024 ARGOS @ McMaster | 11/17/2024 | Y | 5 | 60% | 20% | 80% | 117.33 |
2024 ARGOS @ Columbia | 11/23/2024 | Y | 3 | 67% | 0% | 0% | 103.00 |
2024 ARGOS @ Chicago | 11/23/2024 | Y | 6 | 83% | 0% | 0% | 129.80 |
2024 ARGOS @ Christ's College | 12/14/2024 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 130.00 |
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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Henry Bon | I wish it were possible to freeze time so I would never have to watch you retire | UBC | 49 | 15 |
Erik Christensen | I'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up | Communism is Soviet power plus the yassification of the whole country | 56 | 15 |
Ariel Faeder | throw away your cards, rally in the streets | CLEVELAND, THIS IS FOR YOU! | 60 | 15 |
Joel Miles | Thompson et al. | Aw we're so sorry to hear that maman died today, she gets five big booms | 89 | 10 |
Hazel Depreist-Sullivan | NJ TRANSit (and anwen | jeff mcneil #1 morningside heights fan club | 91 | 10 |
Eve Fleisig | Berkeley | Where are the ACF Nationals recordings? | 112 | 10 |
Charles Hang | WashU | BHSU ReFantazio | 114 | 10 |
Mattias Ehatamm | You cannot go to Aarhus to see his peat-brown head / With eyes like ripening fruit | Tensei Shitara Flashcard Data Ken | 114 | -5 |
Henry Cafaro | The Love Song of J Alfred PrufRock and Roll All Nite (and Party Every Day) | BHSU Rebirth | 115 | 10 |
Will Alston | Walston et. al. | just one more half-dot bro | 115 | 10 |
Michal Gerasimiuk | Stanford+ | A is for Amy Robsart who fell down the stairs | 115 | -5 |
Delia Cropper | Cien Años de Quizboledad | Defying Suavity | 118 | 10 |
Taylor Harvey | 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 | 119 | 10 |
Agnijo Banerjee | Simple Vibes | Cambridge | 124 | 10 |
Benjamin Watson | Limp Francekit | Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz | 124 | -5 |
Jack van Nostrand | Ryan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan Quizbowlers | Moderator Can't Neg me While in Alpha | 124 | -5 |
Gareth Thorlakson | Simpson Agonistes: The Crisis of Donut | as rational as the square root of two power bottoms | 127 | -5 |
Andrew Messersmith | Hu up Jinning they Tao | |madam| | 131 | 10 |
Eren Michelet | Pahkin' the Ahgo | "Powers a question on Stancyzk" that's a clown question bro | 134 | -5 |
Jacob Puthipiroj | Northeast by Northwestern | Notre Dame | 134 | 10 |
Dan Ni | hawk two of | Clown Squad | 137 | 0 |
Adil Haider | The Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork Orange | She Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA Interfere | 142 | -5 |
Logan Mathis | That Feeling When Knee Surgery Is in Five Days | Music to Help You Stop Smoking | 143 | 10 |
Justin Wytmar | Who is the Colleen Hoover of the Zulus? | Clown Senpais | 143 | 10 |
Andrew Gao | Import Pandas | Banned from ARGOS | 148 | 10 |
Jordan Brownstein | "Powers a question on Stancyzk" that's a clown question bro | Pahkin' the Ahgo | 148 | 0 |
Sinecio Morales | hawk two of | Clown Squad | 148 | 0 |
Leo Tao | Clown Squad | hawk two of | 148 | 0 |
Michael Wu | Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz | Limp Francekit | 148 | 10 |
Ryan Rosenberg | Cope is the thing with feathers | 12 Litres of Green Tea | 148 | 0 |
Zaid Asif | 12 Litres of Green Tea | Cope is the thing with feathers | 148 | 0 |
Kunaal Chandrashekar | as rational as the square root of two power bottoms | Simpson Agonistes: The Crisis of Donut | 148 | 10 |
Yihong Chen | Moderator Can't Neg me While in Alpha | Ryan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan Quizbowlers | 148 | 0 |
Raymond Chen | She Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA Interfere | The Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork Orange | 148 | 10 |
Neil Gurram | A is for Amy Robsart who fell down the stairs | Stanford+ | 148 | 10 |