Question
In a short story set in this city, Philemon humiliates his adulterous wife Matilda by forcing her to treat the suit that her lover left behind like a real person. A baboon terrorizes this city in the story “Something Out There.” Langston Hughes was a pen pal of many writers for this city’s Drum magazine, such as an actor nicknamed “Bloke,” a journalist who composed a jazz opera about the boxer King Kong, and the novelist of Mating Birds. In a story set in this city, a golfer watches an old man collapse while carrying what he thought was his son’s (*) coffin. An author from a suburb of this city outlined “How [her country’s] Censorship Works” in an essay whose title asks, “What Happened to” one of her novels. That author, who was part of this city’s Sophiatown Renaissance, wrote the short story “Six Feet of the Country.” For 10 points, name this city home to the author of Burger’s Daughter, Nadine Gordimer. ■END■
Summary
2024 Chicago Open | 07/28/2024 | Y | 15 | 93% | 13% | 27% | 134.21 |
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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Matt Jackson | LMM's LLM MLM | Punished "Venom" BHSU | 40 | 15 |
Taylor Harvey | sticking out your guyot for the ridge push; you're so seafloor spread, you're so fracture zone | I’ll take a quiet 10 / A handshake of CO (Chicago Open) | 52 | -5 |
Milan Fernandez | The Empire Bikes Back | BHSU B | 54 | -5 |
William Golden | The Dyatlov Passement incident | We Need New Names | 59 | 15 |
Amogh Kulkarni | AMOGH QUIZ HACK? 英雄联盟 400 PPG 24 TUH | Read slowly: A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A Read quickly: A | 85 | -5 |
Henry Goff | A Nervy Liberal Nanny Hence | it's the great pumpkinification objection, charlie brown | 118 | 10 |
Rahul Keyal | Lying on a Mattress at Lou’s Apartment in Pilsen, Chicago | Charlotte's Moderately Successful Team | 121 | -5 |
Rohan Kher | var merchants | Mindgoblin of Little Hobbes | 124 | 10 |
Naveed Chowdhury | Lisan al-Quib | The Oldest Men in the World | 130 | 10 |
Ned Tagtmeier | Berkeley Mafia and the Chicago Boy | Les Missourables | 135 | 10 |
Daniel Ma | There are buzzable clues everywhere for those with eyes to see | Are You There, Chat? It's Me, Margaret | 137 | 10 |
Conor Thompson | Galvanized Square Steen and Eco-Friendly Wood Vermeer | NJTRANSit (and bobby, i guess) | 160 | 10 |
Nikhil Desai | First Cause, First Cause, make me young! | when you look this good, you don’t have to know anything | 161 | 10 |
Arya Karthik | Charlotte's Moderately Successful Team | Lying on a Mattress at Lou’s Apartment in Pilsen, Chicago | 163 | 10 |
Michael Hunding | SAYYID QUTB, DRIVING THE LONGEST CAR YOU’VE EVER SEEN THROUGH TAHRIR SQUARE | NJTRANSit (and anwen, I guess) | 163 | 10 |
Tejas Raje | BHSU B | The Empire Bikes Back | 163 | 0 |
Richard Yu | genAI this, genAI that, have you found your 真爱 yet | The Jeam Team | 163 | 10 |
Walter Zhao | Read slowly: A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A Read quickly: A | AMOGH QUIZ HACK? 英雄联盟 400 PPG 24 TUH | 163 | 10 |
Jorrest Weintraub | The Jeam Team | genAI this, genAI that, have you found your 真爱 yet | 163 | 0 |
Kenji Shimizu | I’ll take a quiet 10 / A handshake of CO (Chicago Open) | sticking out your guyot for the ridge push; you're so seafloor spread, you're so fracture zone | 163 | 10 |