Question
A poem set at 2 AM alternates the all-caps lines of a person with this profession with a terse conversation that includes the lines “Say!... Yes?... I’m your… sweetie, ain’t I?” A poet who aligned himself with this profession as a certain “-ologist” declared that two of them will “wash your troubles / … your troubles away!” While observing a person with this profession, the speaker of a poem rhymes “the other night” and“the pale dull pallor of an old gas light” before repeating (*) “He did a lazy sway…. / He did a lazy sway….” In that poem, a man with this profession whom the speaker saw on Lenox Avenue “slept like a rock or a man that’s dead.” For 10 points, name this profession depicted by Langston Hughes in “The Weary Blues.” ■END■
ANSWER: musicians [accept jazz musicians; accept blues musicians; accept singers; accept piano players, saxophonists, or other players of particular instruments; prompt on bluesologist] (The first poem is “The Cat and the Saxophone” by Langston Hughes; the second clue refers to Gil Scott-Heron, who called himself a “bluesologist.”)
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= Average correct buzz position
Summary
2024 Booster Shot (Columbia) | 02/23/2024 | Y | 6 | 67% | 0% | 33% | 102.50 |
2024 Booster Shot (Waterloo) | 02/23/2024 | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 25% | 119.25 |
2024 Booster Shot (Vanderbilt) | 03/02/2024 | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 25% | 126.25 |
2024 Booster Shot (Great Lakes) | 03/09/2024 | Y | 6 | 100% | 33% | 0% | 103.00 |
2024 Booster Shot (WUSTL) | 03/09/2024 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 111.50 |
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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Sam Macchi | Vassar | Penn State A | 72 | 15 |
Neal Joshi | WUSTL | Michigan C | 82 | 15 |
Jack Rado | Columbia A | Lehigh B | 89 | -5 |
William Orr | Yale | Rutgers | 89 | 10 |
Evan Schleck | Gatherer | Bard | 89 | 10 |
Gabe Forrest | Squidward Community College | SIUE | 89 | 10 |
Raymond Chen | Toronto Penguin World War | Toronto Pilk | 92 | -5 |
Jared He | Waterloo Bust | Ottawa | 95 | 10 |
Eshan Pant | NYU A | Columbia B | 98 | 10 |
Ophelia Cherry-Pulay | USN A | Vanderbilt B | 103 | 10 |
Yashwanth Bajji | Michigan A | Case Western | 107 | 10 |
Guy Indorante | Iowa State | Michigan B | 111 | 10 |
Tianyu Xu | Georgia Tech A | Georgia Tech B | 111 | -5 |
Andrew Zeng | Stanford | Ohio | 112 | 10 |
Tony Chen | Toronto Tony Jingyu Chen eats quizbowl | Waterloo Cali | 117 | 10 |
Miles Jaffee | Lehigh A | NYU C | 129 | -5 |
Gareth Thorlakson | Toronto Sprout | Toronto cDNA | 132 | 10 |
Franklin Wu | Toronto Pilk | Toronto Penguin World War | 133 | 10 |
Jeff Guan | NYU C | Lehigh A | 134 | 0 |
Annie Williams | NYU B | Princeton | 134 | 10 |
Will Hollister | Lehigh B | Columbia A | 134 | 0 |
Jonathan Shauf | North Carolina | Penn State B | 134 | 10 |
Gavin Markoff | Vanderbilt A | Belmont | 134 | 10 |
Matthew Sumanen | Georgia Tech B | Georgia Tech A | 134 | 10 |
Kevin Park | Claremont | Georgia Tech C | 134 | 10 |
Sebastian Pujet | WUSTL J | WUSTL C | 134 | 10 |