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 (15[1])night” and“the pale dull pallor of an old gas light” (15[1])before repeating (*) “He did a lazy sway…. (10[3]-5[1])/ He did (-5[1])a lazy sway….” (10[1])In that poem, (10[1])a man with this profession (10[1])whom the speaker saw (10[1])on Lenox Avenue “slept (10[1]-5[1])like (10[1])a rock or a man (10[1])that’s dead.” For 10 points, name this profession depicted by Langston Hughes (-5[1])in “The Weary (10[1])Blues.” (10[1])■END■ (10[6]0[2])

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.”)
<Literature - American Literature>
= Average correct buzz position

Summary

2024 Booster Shot (Columbia)02/23/2024Y667%0%33%102.50
2024 Booster Shot (Waterloo)02/23/2024Y4100%0%25%119.25
2024 Booster Shot (Vanderbilt)03/02/2024Y4100%0%25%126.25
2024 Booster Shot (Great Lakes)03/09/2024Y6100%33%0%103.00
2024 Booster Shot (WUSTL)03/09/2024Y2100%0%0%111.50

Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Sam MacchiVassarPenn State A7215
Neal JoshiWUSTLMichigan C8215
Jack RadoColumbia ALehigh B89-5
William OrrYaleRutgers8910
Evan SchleckGathererBard8910
Gabe ForrestSquidward Community CollegeSIUE8910
Raymond ChenToronto Penguin World WarToronto Pilk92-5
Jared HeWaterloo BustOttawa9510
Eshan PantNYU AColumbia B9810
Ophelia Cherry-PulayUSN AVanderbilt B10310
Yashwanth BajjiMichigan ACase Western10710
Guy IndoranteIowa StateMichigan B11110
Tianyu XuGeorgia Tech AGeorgia Tech B111-5
Andrew ZengStanfordOhio11210
Tony ChenToronto Tony Jingyu Chen eats quizbowlWaterloo Cali11710
Miles JaffeeLehigh ANYU C129-5
Gareth ThorlaksonToronto SproutToronto cDNA13210
Franklin WuToronto PilkToronto Penguin World War13310
Jeff GuanNYU CLehigh A1340
Annie WilliamsNYU BPrinceton13410
Will HollisterLehigh BColumbia A1340
Jonathan ShaufNorth CarolinaPenn State B13410
Gavin MarkoffVanderbilt ABelmont13410
Matthew SumanenGeorgia Tech BGeorgia Tech A13410
Kevin ParkClaremontGeorgia Tech C13410
Sebastian PujetWUSTL JWUSTL C13410