Question
This author included photos of fish fossils in a book explaining such topics as “The Animals Appear” and “The Coming of Men” to a young girl living in the hill town of Mussoorie. A book by this author describes how he embraced Cyrenaic hedonism and got the nickname “Joe” while in England in the chapter “Harrow and Cambridge.” This author describes his wife’s 1936 death in Lausanne in a book whose chapter “The Quest” draws on his earlier book Glimpses of World History. This author of Letters from a Father to His Daughter discussed the (*) Vedas, the recently excavated Indus civilization, and events up through British colonization in a book written in prison at Ahmednagar Fort. The birthday of this author of The Discovery of India is celebrated on Children’s Day. For 10 points, what politician said his country would be free at “the stroke of the midnight hour” in his 1947 “Tryst with Destiny” speech? ■END■
Summary
2024 Chicago Open | 07/28/2024 | Y | 13 | 100% | 23% | 8% | 120.69 |
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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Rohan Kher | var merchants | The Jeam Team | 85 | 15 |
Henry Goff | A Nervy Liberal Nanny Hence | Are You There, Chat? It's Me, Margaret | 92 | 15 |
Gautam Kandlikar | when you look this good, you don’t have to know anything | Galvanized Square Steen and Eco-Friendly Wood Vermeer | 93 | 15 |
Chris Ray | We Need New Names | Charlotte's Moderately Successful Team | 95 | 10 |
Robert Wang | NJTRANSit (and bobby, i guess) | The Dyatlov Passement incident | 95 | 10 |
Tejas Raje | BHSU B | Berkeley Mafia and the Chicago Boy | 95 | 10 |
Nikhil Desai | First Cause, First Cause, make me young! | Mindgoblin of Little Hobbes | 126 | 10 |
Vivek Sasse | There are buzzable clues everywhere for those with eyes to see | NJTRANSit (and anwen, I guess) | 135 | 10 |
Mike Cheyne | The Oldest Men in the World | it's the great pumpkinification objection, charlie brown | 138 | -5 |
Nathan Zhang | AMOGH QUIZ HACK? 英雄联盟 400 PPG 24 TUH | sticking out your guyot for the ridge push; you're so seafloor spread, you're so fracture zone | 144 | 10 |
Matt Weiner | SAYYID QUTB, DRIVING THE LONGEST CAR YOU’VE EVER SEEN THROUGH TAHRIR SQUARE | The Empire Bikes Back | 147 | 10 |
Victor Pavao | Lying on a Mattress at Lou’s Apartment in Pilsen, Chicago | Punished "Venom" BHSU | 152 | 10 |
Eric Bobrow | Read slowly: A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A Read quickly: A | I’ll take a quiet 10 / A handshake of CO (Chicago Open) | 154 | 10 |
Nathaniel Hull | it's the great pumpkinification objection, charlie brown | The Oldest Men in the World | 156 | 10 |