Question
In one of this character’s nightmares, Alex the Parrot says, “the blue triangle,” before it disappears in a rush of wind. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this character frequently interrogated for the whereabouts of his mother until he sees a video of her being executed in prison. This character later watches his friend slit the throat of the woman he loves in a facility’s airlock, prompting him to shoot the friend.
ANSWER: Snowman [or Jimmy]
[10e] Snowman witnesses the deaths of everyone he loves in Oryx and Crake, the first novel in a trilogy by this author.
ANSWER: Margaret Atwood [or Margaret Eleanor Atwood]
[10m] Crake gets his nickname from Extinctathon, a game led by this mysterious game master. This figure with a palindromic name titles both the third novel in the trilogy and the trilogy itself.
ANSWER: MaddAddam
<Literature - British Literature - Long Fiction>
Summary
| 2024 ARGOS @ Brandeis | 03/22/2025 | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
| 2024 ARGOS @ Chicago | 11/23/2024 | Y | 6 | 20.00 | 83% | 83% | 33% |
| 2024 ARGOS @ Christ's College | 12/14/2024 | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
| 2024 ARGOS @ Columbia | 11/23/2024 | Y | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 67% | 33% |
| 2024 ARGOS @ McMaster | 11/17/2024 | Y | 5 | 18.00 | 100% | 80% | 0% |
| 2024 ARGOS @ Stanford | 02/22/2025 | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
| 2024 ARGOS Online | 03/22/2025 | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
Data
| Communism is Soviet power plus the yassification of the whole country | Moderator Can't Neg me While in Alpha | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Simpson Agonistes: The Crisis of Donut | She Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA Interfere | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| I'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up | Tensei Shitara Flashcard Data Ken | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| You cannot go to Aarhus to see his peat-brown head / With eyes like ripening fruit | The Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork Orange | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Ryan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan Quizbowlers | as rational as the square root of two power bottoms | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |