A painting from the end of one artist’s “dark period” shows this person in red facing away from the viewer as he writes with a quill while a reading man in white faces the opposite direction. As children, this person, a future painter, and Jean Baille made up a group known as The Inseparables, who would take long walks near the Tholonet dam. This person sits on a mat in white robes while Paul Alexis reads aloud in a portrait completed after its artist returned to Paris from (*) Aix. This person nicknamed Marie-Hortense Fiquet “the ball” for her round face. This writer holds one of his books while seated in profile next to a Japanese folding screen and a reproduction of Olympia in Eduard Manet’s portrait of him. For 10 points, what friend of Paul Cézanne fictionalized him in the novel The Masterpiece, part of his Les Rougon-Macquart series? ■END■
| Upper Mid-Atlantic (2) | 2024-11-02 | Y | 12 | 100% | 8% | 42% | 133.08 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kevin Wang | I worship the Pyramid (abandoned Soviet coal mining settlement on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard) | BHSU B | 75 | 15 |
| Stephen Liu | Will They Ever Finish Bruckner’s Ninth Boulevard? | BHSU X | 110 | -5 |
| Iain Carpenter | Thamos, King of Egypt: The Sahara of the Mozart | Enjoying the Hole Experience | 112 | 10 |
| Halle Friedman | Big is moving to Evanston! | "real numbers are uncountable" factoid actually just statistical error. diagonal georg | 124 | 10 |
| Eric Mukherjee | Floridovician | Woke Michael Du be like "I'm a genders player" | 125 | -5 |
| Alvin Guo | Please sir, may I have some morb? | The True Dharma Eye of the Juan Soto School | 127 | -5 |
| William Golden | Mumbo Jumbo Will Labubu | One Microscopic Pog in His Chat-astrophic Plan | 127 | 10 |
| Mike Bentley | The Met on Laserdisc. Bravo! | Broken Socal Scene | 130 | -5 |
| Charles Hang | It's not X, but... defenders | The RAND Coöperation | 137 | 10 |
| Henry Atkins | No, explaining that your buzz came from watching an isekai is not "Proustian" | "Real quiz bowl" only consists of the ACF academic pyramidal scene and the late 2010s NAQT scene. | 140 | 10 |
| Rob Carson | BHSU X | Will They Ever Finish Bruckner’s Ninth Boulevard? | 140 | 10 |
| Anuttam Ramji | Li Bai Chocolate Mushussu Pacha Latte | Halifax Shipping Services | 142 | -5 |
| Eric Bobrow | 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 2k5, RNBQKBNR b Q - 99 66 | Do re mi fa serving negs | 147 | 10 |
| Sky Li | Woke Michael Du be like "I'm a genders player" | Floridovician | 148 | 10 |
| Charles Young | Halifax Shipping Services | Li Bai Chocolate Mushussu Pacha Latte | 149 | 10 |
| Jaimie Carlson | The True Dharma Eye of the Juan Soto School | Please sir, may I have some morb? | 149 | 10 |
| Aseem Keyal | Broken Socal Scene | The Met on Laserdisc. Bravo! | 149 | 10 |