Question
Description required. This fictional object is compared to an author’s broken engagement in “The Swords Are Approaching,” an essay by the author of Love and Garbage, Ivan Klíma. After fiddling with this object, a character tries to wash his hands in dirty water, then sand, causing him to drop two women’s handkerchiefs. A servant who earlier had rejected a whipping grabs at the gear wheels that begin to pour out of this object. This device’s operator complains of a squeaky wheel and torn straps to a traveler viewing this device, who is urged to recommend its utility to a new Commandant. This device, which is made up of the Bed, the Inscriber, and the Harrow, kills an Officer obsessed with it instead of writing the words “BE JUST.” For 10 points, identify this punitive device from a Franz Kafka story set at a prison camp. ■END■
Summary
California | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 89.33 |
Florida | 2025-02-01 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 101.50 |
Lower Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | Y | 5 | 80% | 0% | 0% | 117.50 |
Midwest | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 17% | 101.17 |
North | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 67% | 0% | 0% | 101.50 |
Northeast | 2025-02-01 | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 25% | 126.25 |
Pacific Northwest | 2025-02-01 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 129.50 |
South Central | 2025-02-01 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 97.00 |
Southeast | 2025-02-01 | Y | 4 | 75% | 0% | 25% | 129.00 |
UK | 2025-02-01 | Y | 10 | 80% | 0% | 10% | 109.38 |
Upper Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | Y | 8 | 88% | 0% | 0% | 117.43 |
Upstate NY | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0.00 |
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
---|---|---|---|---|
Michael Hunding | Illinois A | Missoui S&T | 51 | 10 |
Kevin Park | Claremont A | UC Berkeley B | 75 | 10 |
Jakob Myers | Indiana A | Illinois B | 80 | 10 |
Owen Arneson | Missouri | Chicago D | 80 | 10 |
William Orr | Yale A | Rutgers A | 83 | 10 |
Eve Fleisig | UC Berkeley A | UCSD | 87 | 10 |
Justin Keung | Imperial A | Cambridge E | 87 | 10 |
Arya Karthik | Oxford A | Cambridge B | 88 | 10 |
Tiffany Zhou | Florida A | UCF C | 89 | 10 |
Guy Indorante | Iowa State | Carleton | 89 | 10 |
Elliott Gomes | Dartmouth A | Harvard A | 89 | -5 |
Yrwin Batan | MIT A | Harvard B | 89 | 10 |
Andre Wong | LSE | Cambridge D | 89 | 10 |
Jisoo Yoo | Texas A | Texas B | 94 | 10 |
Samir Sarma | Georgia Tech D | Georgia Tech C | 96 | -5 |
Sam Konkel | Chicago C | Chicago B | 100 | -5 |
John Luke Broussard | TAMU | ASU | 100 | 10 |
Nathan Zhang | Cornell B | Haverford A | 100 | 10 |
Sinecio Morales | Johns Hopkins A | NYU B | 100 | 10 |
Chris Yoo | William & Mary | Liberty B | 102 | 10 |
Kai Madgwick | Manchester | Cambridge C | 103 | 10 |
Kaiser Xiao | UCLA | Claremont B | 106 | 10 |
Ned Tagtmeier | Chicago A | WashU B | 106 | 10 |
Freddy Potts | Sheffield | Southampton A | 109 | 10 |
Ivan Stanisavljevic | Duke | UNC C | 111 | 10 |
Josh Schmidt | Liberty A | Virginia Tech A | 113 | 10 |
Clete Reinberger | Valencia A | Florida State A | 114 | 10 |
Henry Bon | Winona State | Minnesota B | 114 | 10 |
Anne Fjeld | Alberta | UBC | 114 | 10 |
Jack Lewis | Bruin A | Tennessee A | 114 | 10 |
Hannah Nieuwveld | Penn A | Penn B | 121 | 10 |
Benjamin Liu | Oxford C | Bristol | 126 | -5 |
Eren Michelet | BU | Brandeis B | 127 | 10 |
Jacob Hardin-Bernhardt | NYU C | Cambridge A | 127 | 10 |
Adsayan Ganesh | Warwick A | Durham | 127 | 10 |
Beckett Gilmore | Louisville A | Georgia Tech B | 133 | 10 |
Jerry Vinokurov | John Jay College | Haverford B | 134 | 10 |
Jack Rado | Columbia B | Maryland A | 139 | 10 |
Kevin Wang | Georgia Tech C | Georgia Tech D | 140 | 10 |
Joseph Chambers | Virginia A | Liberty C | 144 | 10 |
Arjun Nageswaran | Harvard A | Dartmouth A | 144 | 10 |
Sam Kung | UNC D | Wake Forest | 145 | 0 |
Nermeen Rahman | Indiana B | Illinois C | 145 | 10 |
Liam Starnes | Chicago B | Chicago C | 145 | 10 |
Nithin Mendu | Wisconsin A | Wisconsin B | 145 | 0 |
Mason Yu | Brown A | UMass Boston | 145 | 10 |
Yaj Jhajhria | UW B | UW A | 145 | 0 |
Truman Fillbrandt | UW A | UW B | 145 | 10 |
Yuxuan Lu | Vanderbilt A | Georgia Tech A | 145 | 0 |
Ayan Guha | Georgia Tech A | Vanderbilt A | 145 | 0 |
Michael Wu | Southampton B | Oxford B | 145 | 10 |
Josh Howarth | Warwick B | Imperial B | 145 | 0 |
Gus Vanskike | Maryland B | George Washington B | 145 | 0 |
Nicholas Lane | George Washington A | Vassar A | 145 | 10 |
Samuel Kassover | George Washington B | Maryland B | 145 | 0 |
Alec Riso | Cornell C | Binghamton A | 145 | 0 |
Pranaav Senthilkumar | Cornell D | RIT A | 145 | 0 |
Giuseppe Piccirilli | Binghamton A | Cornell C | 145 | 0 |
Gregory Stone | ESF A | RIT B | 145 | 0 |
Cade Reinberger | RIT A | Cornell D | 145 | 0 |