Question
Novels about characters in this profession were popularized with Erskine Childers’s The Riddle of the Sands. A “lamplighter” named Toby Esterhase (“es-ter-hay-zee”) features in a novel about a member of this profession who has retired from an organization nicknamed “the Circus.” A salesman who takes up this other profession plays an alcoholic game of checkers against Captain Segura and fools others with his sketches of (*) vacuum cleaner parts. Salesman James Wormold gets this job in a Graham Greene novel set in Havana. A member of this profession named George Smiley appears in a novel about one of these people who “came in from the cold,” written by John Le Carré. For 10 points, name this profession of the most famous character created by Ian Fleming, James Bond. ■END■
Summary
2023 PACE NSC | 06/10/2023 | Y | 35 | 97% | 37% | 0% | 79.26 |
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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Sanjay Ranjith | Thomas Jefferson D | Thomas Jefferson C | 15 | 0 |
Costas Pavlou | Detroit Country Day | Mira Loma | 37 | 20 |
Yashwanth Bajji | Troy | Kinkaid | 47 | 20 |
Brodie Henry | West Point | Rockford Auburn B | 47 | 20 |
Sam Asplund | Winnebago | Midtown | 47 | 20 |
Braden Booth | Dallas County | Thomas Jefferson B | 47 | 20 |
Arnou Thammarak | New Brighton | Parkway West | 48 | 20 |
Cindy Gao | Belmont | Winston Churchill A | 48 | 20 |
Andrew Shi | Thomas Jefferson A | Canyon Crest | 50 | 20 |
Kaiwen Xiao | Irvington A | Chattahoochee B | 50 | 20 |
Nathan Wu | Plymouth | Woodland | 50 | 20 |
Rohan Kher | Barrington A | Detroit Catholic Central A | 51 | 20 |
Rachel Ezrielev | Richard Montgomery | Rockford Auburn A | 54 | 20 |
Bryce Cruise | Heights | Carbondale | 62 | 20 |
Kyunghwan Lim | Chattahoochee A | Lincoln-Way East | 65 | 10 |
Omkar Marathe | William Fremd | Johns Creek A | 66 | 10 |
Jacob Hardin-Bernhardt | Hunter A | Solon | 66 | 10 |
Monit Karmaker | Stevenson A | Carl Sandburg | 66 | 10 |
Camden Williams | Mexico | Winston Churchill B | 68 | 0 |
Jeffrey Liu | Hinsdale Central | Innovation Academy A | 68 | 10 |
Joy An | Choate Rosemary Hall | Maggie Walker C | 68 | 10 |
Arjun Kala | University Lab | Maggie Walker A | 75 | 10 |
Aditya Shivaswamy | St. Mark's | Dunbar | 80 | 10 |
Ethan Kral | Northmont A | Walter Payton | 80 | 10 |
Rohan Dalal | Johns Creek B | Barrington B | 84 | 10 |
Moxie Strom | Hunter B | Norman | 85 | 10 |
Dominic Aiello | Detroit Catholic Central B | Belvidere | 93 | 0 |
Aryan Pathak | Lake Highland | Norris | 123 | 0 |
Bharathi Kancharla | Maggie Walker B | Innovation Academy B | 123 | 0 |
Gabe Inniss | Belvidere | Detroit Catholic Central B | 125 | 10 |
Varun Venkatagiri | Innovation Academy B | Maggie Walker B | 125 | 0 |
Mason Severson | Norris | Lake Highland | 125 | 10 |
Chris Goff | Moberly | Hoover B | 125 | 10 |
Aarushi Kanigicherla | Thomas Jefferson C | Thomas Jefferson D | 125 | 10 |
Chris Goolsby | Detroit Catholic Central C | Mercer County | 125 | 10 |
Austin Gober | Washington | Cincinnati Hills Christian | 125 | 10 |
Colette Kendrick | Winston Churchill B | Mexico | 126 | 10 |
Michael Camilleri | John Adams A | Stevenson B | 126 | 10 |
Safal Sapkota | Elkhorn North | John Adams B | 126 | 10 |
William Thain | Saint Joseph | Northmont B | 126 | 10 |