Orhan - 2025 Chicago Open - Buzzpoints App

Question

When a love letter prompts this character’s mother to ask him if he wants a father, he replies, “No, when I grow up I’m going to marry you myself.” For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this character who would tell any lie “for the sake of a delightful, convincing story” according to Shekure. At the end of My Name Is Red, Shekure gives this character letters by Hasan and Black as well as a set of horse illustrations.

ANSWER: Orhan [accept Orhan Pamuk; prompt on the author of My Name Is Red]

[10e] Orhan Pamuk used a similar twist in this novel, in which the narrator Orhan reveals that the protagonist was eventually assassinated in Germany for betraying the militant Blue.

ANSWER: Snow [or Kar]

[10h] The historian Mina consults “the history enthusiast Orhan Pamuk” in a Pamuk novel about one of these events on the fictional island of Mingheria. In that novel, a princess investigates Bonkowski Pasha’s murder during one of these events.

ANSWER: bubonic plague outbreaks [or epidemics or pandemics; accept Nights of Plague or Veba Geceleri]

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2025 Chicago Open	2025-08-09	Y	12	15.00	83%	17%	50%
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UK	2025-02-01	N	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	N	4	22.50	100%	75%	50%

Data


BHSU B	It's not X, but... defenders	0	10	10	20
Halifax Shipping Services	Big is moving to Evanston!	0	10	0	10
Mumbo Jumbo Will Labubu	Broken Socal Scene	10	10	0	20
The Met on Laserdisc. Bravo!	One Microscopic Pog in His Chat-astrophic Plan	0	10	10	20
"real numbers are uncountable" factoid actually just statistical error. diagonal georg	The RAND Coöperation	0	10	0	10
The True Dharma Eye of the Juan Soto School	Will They Ever Finish Bruckner’s Ninth Boulevard?	0	10	10	20
Woke Michael Du be like "I'm a genders player"	Thamos, King of Egypt: The Sahara of the Mozart	0	10	10	20
No, explaining that your buzz came from watching an isekai is not "Proustian"	Do re mi fa serving negs	0	10	0	10
I worship the Pyramid (abandoned Soviet coal mining settlement on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard)	Enjoying the Hole Experience	0	10	0	10
Floridovician	Please sir, may I have some morb?	0	10	10	20
8/8/8/8/8/8/2k5/RNBQKBNR b Q - 99 66	Li Bai Chocolate Mushussu Pacha Latte	0	0	10	10
"Real quiz bowl" only consists of the ACF academic pyramidal scene and the late 2010s NAQT scene.	BHSU X	10	0	0	10