Question
The exemplar of “irritation” in Sianne Ngai’s Ugly Feelings is this novel’s protagonist, who tells herself that she isn’t a “jungle creature” while feeling “drugged” by the music at a nightclub. While staying at the YWCA in Chicago, the protagonist of this novel struggles to find work due to lacking “references” but is eventually hired to accompany the lecturer Mrs. Hayes-Rore to New York. This novel’s protagonist is panged by homesickness while listening to Dvořák’s New World Symphony and angrily watches a (*) minstrel show with the painter Axel Olsen, whose proposal she rejects while staying with her aunt in Copenhagen. This novel opens at Naxos, a drab school based on the Tuskegee Institute, and ends with the protagonist’s suffocating marriage to Reverend Pleasant Green in the Deep South. For 10 points, Helga Crane fails to find happiness in Harlem in what novel that launched Nella Larsen’s career? ■END■
Summary
2024 Chicago Open | 07/28/2024 | Y | 14 | 79% | 0% | 29% | 125.82 |
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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Henry Atkins | The Empire Bikes Back | sticking out your guyot for the ridge push; you're so seafloor spread, you're so fracture zone | 88 | 10 |
Eve Fleisig | it's the great pumpkinification objection, charlie brown | LMM's LLM MLM | 99 | 10 |
Omkar Marathe | Charlotte's Moderately Successful Team | The Oldest Men in the World | 99 | -5 |
Ethan Ashbrook | Galvanized Square Steen and Eco-Friendly Wood Vermeer | Lisan al-Quib | 100 | -5 |
Tejas Raje | BHSU B | I’ll take a quiet 10 / A handshake of CO (Chicago Open) | 102 | -5 |
Richard Niu | AMOGH QUIZ HACK? 英雄联盟 400 PPG 24 TUH | Are You There, Chat? It's Me, Margaret | 104 | 10 |
Rahul Keyal | Lying on a Mattress at Lou’s Apartment in Pilsen, Chicago | NJTRANSit (and bobby, i guess) | 117 | 10 |
Charles Hang | Les Missourables | Mindgoblin of Little Hobbes | 120 | 10 |
Rob Carson | Punished "Venom" BHSU | The Dyatlov Passement incident | 123 | 10 |
Ned Tagtmeier | Berkeley Mafia and the Chicago Boy | var merchants | 145 | 10 |
Caleb Kendrick | We Need New Names | A Nervy Liberal Nanny Hence | 146 | 10 |
Jorrest Weintraub | The Jeam Team | First Cause, First Cause, make me young! | 146 | -5 |
Mike Cheyne | The Oldest Men in the World | Charlotte's Moderately Successful Team | 147 | 10 |
Eric Bobrow | Read slowly: A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A Read quickly: A | There are buzzable clues everywhere for those with eyes to see | 147 | 0 |
Anderson Wang | I’ll take a quiet 10 / A handshake of CO (Chicago Open) | BHSU B | 147 | 0 |
John Marvin | There are buzzable clues everywhere for those with eyes to see | Read slowly: A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A Read quickly: A | 147 | 0 |
Isaac Kirk-Davidoff | First Cause, First Cause, make me young! | The Jeam Team | 147 | 0 |
Ryan Westbrook | when you look this good, you don’t have to know anything | SAYYID QUTB, DRIVING THE LONGEST CAR YOU’VE EVER SEEN THROUGH TAHRIR SQUARE | 147 | 0 |
Michael Hunding | SAYYID QUTB, DRIVING THE LONGEST CAR YOU’VE EVER SEEN THROUGH TAHRIR SQUARE | when you look this good, you don’t have to know anything | 147 | 10 |
Stephen Liu | Lisan al-Quib | Galvanized Square Steen and Eco-Friendly Wood Vermeer | 148 | 10 |