Question
This was the birth surname of an activist who danced in political one-woman street shows on UPenn’s campus before publicly self-immolating in 1996. An author with this surname, who frequently used the phrase “The Power of One,” wrote a profile of an aerospace engineer who was the target of a smear campaign after co-founding Caltech’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. A park in San Jose honors an author with this surname who is the dedicatee of R. F. Kuang’s grimdark fantasy The Poppy War and a time-travel story by Ken (*) Liu. Hate mail and death threats resulted in the 2004 suicide at age 36 of that author with this surname, who used her own grandparents and the diaries of Minnie Vautrin and John Rabe (“RAH-buh”) as sources for a 1997 bestseller that alleges thousands of mass murders were covered up by Japan’s government. For 10 points, give this surname of the historian who wrote The Rape of Nanking, Iris. ■END■
Summary
2024 Chicago Open | 07/28/2024 | Y | 15 | 93% | 13% | 13% | 115.57 |
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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Tejas Raje | BHSU B | LMM's LLM MLM | 31 | 15 |
Robert Wang | NJTRANSit (and bobby, i guess) | Are You There, Chat? It's Me, Margaret | 81 | -5 |
Swapnil Garg | it's the great pumpkinification objection, charlie brown | sticking out your guyot for the ridge push; you're so seafloor spread, you're so fracture zone | 85 | 15 |
Walter Zhang | Mindgoblin of Little Hobbes | NJTRANSit (and anwen, I guess) | 98 | -5 |
Ryan Rosenberg | A Nervy Liberal Nanny Hence | Punished "Venom" BHSU | 107 | 10 |
Akshar Goyal | SAYYID QUTB, DRIVING THE LONGEST CAR YOU’VE EVER SEEN THROUGH TAHRIR SQUARE | The Jeam Team | 107 | 10 |
Chris Ray | We Need New Names | I’ll take a quiet 10 / A handshake of CO (Chicago Open) | 111 | 10 |
Daniel Ma | There are buzzable clues everywhere for those with eyes to see | Charlotte's Moderately Successful Team | 112 | 10 |
William Golden | The Dyatlov Passement incident | The Empire Bikes Back | 116 | 10 |
Nikhil Desai | First Cause, First Cause, make me young! | Les Missourables | 117 | 10 |
Rohan Kher | var merchants | when you look this good, you don’t have to know anything | 120 | 10 |
Stephen Liu | Lisan al-Quib | Lying on a Mattress at Lou’s Apartment in Pilsen, Chicago | 129 | 10 |
Ethan Ashbrook | Galvanized Square Steen and Eco-Friendly Wood Vermeer | Read slowly: A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A Read quickly: A | 136 | 10 |
Dylan Minarik | Are You There, Chat? It's Me, Margaret | NJTRANSit (and bobby, i guess) | 139 | 10 |
Richard Yu | genAI this, genAI that, have you found your 真爱 yet | Berkeley Mafia and the Chicago Boy | 153 | 10 |
Richard Niu | AMOGH QUIZ HACK? 英雄联盟 400 PPG 24 TUH | The Oldest Men in the World | 155 | 10 |
Anwen Kelleher | NJTRANSit (and anwen, I guess) | Mindgoblin of Little Hobbes | 156 | 0 |