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 poet to play a music box, titled “The Bourgeois King.” This adjective, which partly titles a Borges story about replicating stones, names (10[1])a collection that includes short stories along with poems like “Symphony in Gray Major.” For 10 points, what color titles a modernismo collection by Rubén Darío? (10[1])■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: blue [or azul; accept “Blue Tigers” or “Tigres azules”; accept “Eyes of a Blue Dog” or “Ojos de perro azul”]
<Literature - World Literature - Short Fiction>
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Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Joseph KrolCien Años de QuizboledadDefying Suavity12510
Ben Russell JonesSimple VibesCambridge15110
Antoni KluzowskiGrzegorz BrzęczyszczykiewiczLimp Franceskit15210

Summary

2024 ARGOS @ Stanford02/22/2025Y3100%0%0%110.67
2024 ARGOS @ Christ's College12/14/2024Y3100%0%0%142.67