Question

Remarkably, four separate instances of these events happened to author Antonio di Benedetto during his imprisonment (-5[1])under the Videla regime. In one novel, a former teacher organizes one of these events with a scarecrow after making arbitrary decrees such as animals out after six becoming public property. One of these events occurs at the end of a story whose protagonist habitually hides in the hills after hacking a (*) landowner to death with a machete. A father addresses his son Justino (10[1])(“hoo-STEE-no”) before one of these events in that story (10[1])from The Burning Plain. A character who is said to have survived “fourteen attempts on his life, seventy-three ambushes,” and one of these events spends (-5[1])it thinking about the time he saw a diamond-like object at a tinkers’ (10[1])camp. For 10 points, Colonel (10[1])Aureliano Buendía (10[3])remembers seeing ice with his father while facing death (10[1])by what method? ■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: firing squads [accept mock firing squad; prompt on executions or mock executions] (The Juan Rulfo story is “Tell Them Not to Kill Me!”)
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2023 Chicago Open08/05/2023Y9100%0%22%122.56

Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Chris RayTeach Us to Outgrow Our LadnessBHSU15-5
Ethan StrombeckTeam Name Think DetailThe Catastrophic Implosion of Packet Sub7910
Matt JacksonThe Plague (anime)" was redirected to: "Oran High School Host ClubDon't be Afraid, the Clown's Afraid Too8710
Milan FernandezThe CanadiansI would prefer not to112-5
Tejas RajeBHSUTeach Us to Outgrow Our Ladness12510
James OreficeHang et al., Robert BrowningThe anti-STOON-dahl cabal (the tall Keyal et al.)13010
Jim FanQuasicrystal SilenceI prefer really not to speak. If I speak I’m in big trouble13210
William GoldenRomanos IV Diogenes’ Macaroni Grillremembrance of lost time13210
Halle FriedmanIn Search of Things Pastwave2: trimming membership codes 9655377758gp13210
Stephen LiuCurse you, Periplus the Platypus!Evans Hall destruction awaiters14110
Jason ChengI would prefer not toThe Canadians14510