This critic recalled carving words from manifestos onto piano keys in a book that glosses a play featuring the “Daddy’s Girl” Ginger and the catcaller Bongi. The brain of this critic narrates an essay in which Ned Block and John Searle’s thought experiments are discussed alongside transcranial magnetic stimulation. This critic accused the author of A Little Life of torturing her gay male characters in her viral review “Hanya’s Boys.” Verso published this critic’s first book (*) Females, which discusses Valerie Solanas. This author of the collection Authority and winner of the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism advanced a libertarian argument for access to sex-changing medical care in the essay “Freedom of Sex.” For 10 points, name this critic for New York magazine who discussed her experience with transition in the essay “On Liking Women.” ■END■
| 2025 Chicago Open | 2025-08-09 | Y | 12 | 83% | 50% | 33% | 81.50 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adrian Wong | Woke Michael Du be like "I'm a genders player" | BHSU B | 59 | 15 |
| Lou Leere | Big is moving to Evanston! | No, explaining that your buzz came from watching an isekai is not "Proustian" | 63 | 15 |
| Connor Mayers | "Real quiz bowl" only consists of the ACF academic pyramidal scene and the late 2010s NAQT scene. | Please sir, may I have some morb? | 63 | 15 |
| Emmett Laurie | The True Dharma Eye of the Juan Soto School | Do re mi fa serving negs | 63 | 15 |
| Stephen Liu | Will They Ever Finish Bruckner’s Ninth Boulevard? | The Met on Laserdisc. Bravo! | 66 | -5 |
| Joel Miles | "real numbers are uncountable" factoid actually just statistical error. diagonal georg | Enjoying the Hole Experience | 67 | 15 |
| Auroni Gupta | BHSU X | The RAND Coöperation | 67 | 15 |
| Aseem Keyal | Broken Socal Scene | I worship the Pyramid (abandoned Soviet coal mining settlement on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard) | 69 | -5 |
| William Golden | Mumbo Jumbo Will Labubu | Li Bai Chocolate Mushussu Pacha Latte | 79 | -5 |
| Tracy Mirkin | Floridovician | 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 2k5, RNBQKBNR b Q - 99 66 | 79 | 10 |
| Jeremy Tsai | One Microscopic Pog in His Chat-astrophic Plan | Thamos, King of Egypt: The Sahara of the Mozart | 86 | 10 |
| Charles Hang | It's not X, but... defenders | Halifax Shipping Services | 121 | -5 |
| Jordan Brownstein | I worship the Pyramid (abandoned Soviet coal mining settlement on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard) | Broken Socal Scene | 134 | 10 |
| Anuttam Ramji | Li Bai Chocolate Mushussu Pacha Latte | Mumbo Jumbo Will Labubu | 134 | 0 |
| Charles Young | Halifax Shipping Services | It's not X, but... defenders | 134 | 0 |
| Jerry Vinokurov | The Met on Laserdisc. Bravo! | Will They Ever Finish Bruckner’s Ninth Boulevard? | 134 | 10 |