Cormac McCarthy - 2024 PLAYTIME

Question

In a novel by this author, a man carries an object owned by Pacheco before throwing it as part of a bet. For 10 points each:

[10e] Name this author who wrote about the kid and the violent Judge Holden in Blood Meridian. This author wrote No Country for Old Men and The Road.

ANSWER: Cormac McCarthy

[10h] In Blood Meridian, these objects that are described as appearing on the “Night of [the kid’s] birth. Thirty-three,” paralleling a later event featuring these objects during which an unnamed character is presumably murdered in an outhouse.

ANSWER: meteors [accept meteor showers; accept stars]

[10m] Harold Bloom unfavorably compared this other McCarthy antagonist to Judge Holden. This character from No Country for Old Men carries an air-powered captive bolt stunner and flips a coin to decide his victims’ fates.

ANSWER: Anton Chigurh [or Anton Chigurh]

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2025 PLAYTIME @ CWRU	12/10/2024	Y	5	18.00	100%	60%	20%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Claremont	12/10/2024	Y	5	18.00	80%	80%	20%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Florida	12/10/2024	Y	3	23.33	100%	100%	33%
2024 PLAYTIME @ Harvard	04/26/2025	Y	4	22.50	100%	50%	75%
2024 PLAYTIME @ JHU	10/26/2024	Y	4	20.00	100%	75%	25%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Northwest	12/10/2024	Y	4	20.00	100%	50%	50%
2025 PLAYTIME Online	04/26/2025	Y	9	24.44	100%	78%	67%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Sheffield	12/10/2024	Y	7	18.57	100%	43%	43%
2024 PLAYTIME @ UBC	10/05/2024	Y	8	20.00	100%	50%	50%
2024 PLAYTIME @ Virginia Tech	07/11/2025	Y	3	26.67	100%	100%	67%
2024 PLAYTIME @ WashU	10/12/2024	Y	6	20.00	100%	50%	50%

Data


Michigan C	Pittsburgh	10	0	0	10
Michigan B	Michigan D	10	0	10	20
Art of Premature Signaling	UCSD	10	0	10	20
Claremont B	Caltech	0	0	0	0
P.C.‚ Daniel‚ Michel‚ and Jason B	Claremont A	10	0	10	20
girl 15 whale i mean they	UCLA B	10	10	10	30
UCLA A	UCSB	10	0	10	20
Billy's Bastion	Too much from you lately	10	0	10	20
Edwin Laundrorat's Long-Lost Man Unclothès Rat Degrosses	Project2025BC: Make Assyria Great Again	10	10	10	30
Keeping Up With the Cardassians	Qin Shi Huang's Immortality Poison	10	0	10	20
Belmont	Brandeis	10	10	0	20
Brown	BU	10	0	10	20
Harvard	Lexington	10	10	0	20
MIT	RIT	10	10	10	30
George Mason A	NYU A	10	0	10	20
Haverford A	CWRU	10	10	0	20
Maryland B	Johns Hopkins A	10	0	10	20
Rutgers	George Mason C	10	0	10	20
Arizona State University B	Carleton	10	10	10	30
UW A	UW B	10	0	10	20
Washington Connections	South Dakota School of Mines	10	0	0	10
Ohio State B	Oberlin	10	10	10	30
Arizona State University A	Alberta	10	10	0	20
MSJ	2 Italians, 2 Poles, All Noles	10	10	0	20
Auburn 2026	Illinois Orange	10	10	10	30
Free Agents 1	evil women enjoyers	10	0	10	20
Goober Gang	Notre Dame + Epic Games	10	10	10	30
Four Generalists in Search of a Power	Mahjonng Masters	10	10	0	20
Mike Dukakis Tank Battalion	Egypt Airlines Haters	10	10	10	30
Trip-Hop Quizzer Tricky	Monsieur Hulot's Academic Team	10	10	10	30
mongeese	Quatumvirate	10	0	10	20
Gruh	we need new names	10	0	10	20
Cambridge	Sheffield A	10	0	0	10
Manchester	LSE	10	10	10	30
Sheffield B	Edinburgh	10	0	10	20
Sheffield C	Imperial A	10	10	0	20
Warwick A	Birmingham	10	10	0	20
Warwick B	Imperial B	10	0	10	20
Lancaster	Warwick C	10	0	0	10
Ohio State A	Ohio State D	10	0	0	10
Ottawa A	Guelph	10	10	10	30
Waterloo C	Simon Fraser	10	0	0	10
Toronto C	Toronto A	10	10	0	20
Waterloo A	Toronto B	10	0	10	20
Toronto D	Mac A	10	0	0	10
Toronto Metropolitan	McGill B	10	10	10	30
UBC	Toronto E	10	0	10	20
Waterloo B	McGill A	10	10	0	20
4 quizbowl pros go Virginia on North Carolina	Even in Blacksburg There I Am	10	10	10	30
Adrianne Lenker 4 Nobel Lit Prize 2K65	Master and Margaritaville	10	0	10	20
Ashurbanipal’s Drag Race	Somehow Paula Deen Returned	10	10	10	30
Michigan A	Ohio State C	10	0	10	20
Chicago A	WashU Bulbasaur	10	10	0	20
Illinois B	Chicago B	10	0	10	20
Illinois A	Iowa State	10	10	10	30
Illinois C	SIUE	10	0	0	10
Truman State	Missouri	10	0	10	20
WashU Squirtle	WashU Charmander	10	10	0	20