Question

In a film by a director who used this person’s name, Phoenix Radio and Radio Ragazza work with Adelaide Norris, the leader of the Women’s Army. A circus poster featuring a tiger entices a young version (15[1])of this woman in a story by Angela Carter, who also wrote of the “dementing heat” on the “fourth of August” in a story (15[1])titled for her hometown that ends the collection Black Venus. This person’s name was adopted (15[1])by the feminist director of the 1980s indie films Working Girls and Born in Flames. (15[2])This (15[1])person attempted to (*) buy prussic acid to “clean a sealskin coat” after allegedly being angered (-5[1])by the killing of pigeons in her family’s barn. This resident of Fall River (10[2])is the subject (10[1])of a skipping-rope rhyme in which she sees (10[1])“what she had done,” then gives her second victim 41 “whacks.” For 10 points, an 1892 “trial of the century” acquitted what woman of ax-murdering her parents? ■END■ (10[2])

ANSWER: Lizzie Borden [or Lizzie Andrew Borden] (The stories are “Lizzie’s Tiger” and “The Fall River Axe Murders” by Angela Carter.)
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Summary

2024 Chicago Open07/28/2024Y12100%50%8%103.50

Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Isaac Kirk-DavidoffFirst Cause, First Cause, make me young!NJTRANSit (and bobby, i guess)3515
Matt JacksonLMM's LLM MLMGalvanized Square Steen and Eco-Friendly Wood Vermeer5915
Arya KarthikCharlotte's Moderately Successful TeamgenAI this, genAI that, have you found your 真爱 yet7415
Sam BaileyThe Oldest Men in the WorldNJTRANSit (and anwen, I guess)8915
Naveed ChowdhuryLisan al-QuibThe Empire Bikes Back8915
William GoldenThe Dyatlov Passement incidentAMOGH QUIZ HACK? 英雄联盟 400 PPG 24 TUH9015
Daniel MaThere are buzzable clues everywhere for those with eyes to seeBerkeley Mafia and the Chicago Boy105-5
Kenji ShimizuI’ll take a quiet 10 / A handshake of CO (Chicago Open)Punished "Venom" BHSU11910
John LawrenceBHSU Bit's the great pumpkinification objection, charlie brown11910
Dylan MinarikAre You There, Chat? It's Me, MargaretLes Missourables12210
Taylor Harveysticking out your guyot for the ridge push; you're so seafloor spread, you're so fracture zoneMindgoblin of Little Hobbes13010
Michael CoatesBerkeley Mafia and the Chicago BoyThere are buzzable clues everywhere for those with eyes to see15810
Alexander NeroRead slowly: A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A Read quickly: AThe Jeam Team15810