Question
This sort of place titles a short story in which a laborer and a street-cleaner both get stomach poisoning after eating mushrooms by a tram stop. A short story collection subtitled for “seasons” in this sort of place is structured as five years of Marcovaldo’s life. In a book titled for these places, a man asks, “Why do you speak to me of the stones? It is only the arch that matters,” to which his companion replies, “Without stones there is no arch.” A book named for these places ends with the narrator outlining two ways to escape suffering in “the (*) inferno of the living.” The “hooded brothers” duplicate one of these places underground by posing corpses. These places are paired with “Memory,” “Desire,” and “Signs” in the chapter titles of a novel in which they have female names like Eusapia and Diomira. For 10 points, Marco Polo tells Kublai Khan about what title places of an Italo Calvino novel? ■END■
Summary
2024 Chicago Open | 07/28/2024 | Y | 15 | 100% | 20% | 0% | 121.27 |
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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Nikhil Desai | First Cause, First Cause, make me young! | Les Missourables | 48 | 15 |
Nick Jensen | LMM's LLM MLM | BHSU B | 52 | 15 |
Stephen Liu | Lisan al-Quib | Lying on a Mattress at Lou’s Apartment in Pilsen, Chicago | 52 | 15 |
Sinecio Morales | Charlotte's Moderately Successful Team | There are buzzable clues everywhere for those with eyes to see | 132 | 10 |
Nathan Zhang | AMOGH QUIZ HACK? 英雄联盟 400 PPG 24 TUH | The Oldest Men in the World | 136 | 10 |
Andrew Wang | Punished "Venom" BHSU | A Nervy Liberal Nanny Hence | 138 | 10 |
Kenji Shimizu | I’ll take a quiet 10 / A handshake of CO (Chicago Open) | We Need New Names | 138 | 10 |
Eve Fleisig | 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 | 138 | 10 |
Henry Atkins | The Empire Bikes Back | The Dyatlov Passement incident | 139 | 10 |
Ned Tagtmeier | Berkeley Mafia and the Chicago Boy | genAI this, genAI that, have you found your 真爱 yet | 139 | 10 |
Mitch McCullar | Are You There, Chat? It's Me, Margaret | NJTRANSit (and bobby, i guess) | 140 | 10 |
Cindy Gao | NJTRANSit (and anwen, I guess) | Mindgoblin of Little Hobbes | 140 | 10 |
Joy An | The Jeam Team | SAYYID QUTB, DRIVING THE LONGEST CAR YOU’VE EVER SEEN THROUGH TAHRIR SQUARE | 140 | 10 |
Chinmay Kansara | when you look this good, you don’t have to know anything | var merchants | 142 | 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 | 145 | 10 |