Question

After this character faints when the man she was about to have sex with gets stabbed in the neck, she feels a kiss “more burning than the executioner’s branding iron.” This character marries a man in a ceremony where a jug is thrown on the ground and broken. (-5[1])This character wears a bag with an inlaid gem around her neck that holds a pink baby shoe, which allows her to be recognized by an anchoress locked in the Tower of Roland who turns out to be her (*) mother. A novel ends with the discovery of a man’s skeleton embracing (10[1])the remains of this woman. (10[3])This woman (10[1])falls madly in love (-5[1])with Captain Phoebus and teaches her pet goat Djali to spell his name. Claude Frollo (10[1])arranges the execution of, (10[1])for 10 points, (10[1])what street dancer raised by Romani in Victor Hugo’s novel The Hunchback of Notre-Dame? ■END■

ANSWER: La Esmeralda [or Agnès; accept Esmerelda]
<MM, European Literature>
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Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Nolan JonesPurdue AOhio State B47-5
Yashwanth BajjiMichigan AMissouri9810
Rohan NavaneethaOhio State BPurdue A10310
Danielle WebbSIUE APurdue B10310
Ryan HappelSIUE BChicago B10310
Simon ZimmermanOhio State AChicago D10510
Robert CondronChicago AMichigan B109-5
Neal JoshiWUSTLChicago C12410
Jacob GoodsonOhio State CPurdue C12810
Cole PolleyMichigan BChicago A13110

Summary

2023 ILLIAC (Cornell)2023-10-21Y4100%0%0%129.25
2023 ILLIAC (Mainsite)2023-10-21Y8100%0%25%111.88