Question

In a story partly titled for this adjective, a character who likens her body to laminated metal stands beside a lamp while smoking cigarettes with the narrator. In that Gabriel García Márquez story, a woman obsessively writes a phrase containing this adjective to get a man she meets in a dream to recall her. While visiting a Lahore mosque, a Scottish professor offers the title objects to a blind beggar in a story partly titled for this adjective from (*) Shakespeare’s Memory. A collection named for this adjective includes the stories “The Veil of Queen Mab” and one in which a monarch forces a poor (-5[1])poet to play a music box, titled “The Bourgeois King.” This adjective, which partly titles a Borges story about replicating stones, names a collection that includes short stories along with poems (10[1])like “Symphony in Gray Major.” (10[2])For 10 points, what color titles a modernismo collection by Rubén Darío? ■END■ (10[2]0[2])

ANSWER: blue [or azul; accept “Blue Tigers” or “Tigres azules”; accept “Eyes of a Blue Dog” or “Ojos de perro azul”]
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Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Sinecio Moraleshawk two ofThat Feeling When Knee Surgery Is in Five Days103-5
John MarvinThe Love Song of J Alfred PrufRock and Roll All Nite (and Party Every Day)Who is the Colleen Hoover of the Zulus?13410
Matt BollingerBHSU ReFantazioWashU13910
Rob CarsonBHSU RebirthMusic to Help You Stop Smoking13910
Yashwanth BajjiClown SquadClown Senpais1520
Zach JosephNotre DameNortheast by Northwestern15210
Liam StarnesThat Feeling When Knee Surgery Is in Five Dayshawk two of15210
Todd MaslykClown SenpaisClown Squad1520

Summary

2024 ARGOS @ McMaster11/17/2024Y5100%20%0%133.00
2024 ARGOS @ Chicago11/23/2024Y683%0%17%143.20
2024 ARGOS @ Columbia11/23/2024Y3100%0%0%148.33