Question
After a speech delivered “Once in the Jurassic about 150 million years ago,” a figure manifests in his “true form” as this character. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this figure invoked with the war spell “DROWN THEIR BUTTS / CRUSH THEIR BUTTS / DROWN THEIR BUTTS / CRUSH THEIR BUTTS,” after which he will put out the enemy with his “vajra-shovel.”
ANSWER: Smokey the Bear [accept “Smokey the Bear Sutra”]
[10m] This poet practiced Zen meditation as a fire lookout in Washington State, which influenced his poem “Smokey the Bear Sutra” and the works from his collection Turtle Island.
ANSWER: Gary Snyder
[10e] This fellow Beatnik wrote a sutra titled The Scripture of the Golden Eternity. This author depicted Snyder as Japhy Ryder in the novel The Dharma Bums.
ANSWER: Jack Kerouac [or Jean-Louis Lebris de Kérouac]
<Literature - American Literature - Misc Literature>
Summary
2024 ARGOS @ Brandeis | 03/22/2025 | Y | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
2024 ARGOS @ Chicago | 11/23/2024 | Y | 4 | 20.00 | 100% | 50% | 50% |
2024 ARGOS @ Christ's College | 12/14/2024 | Y | 3 | 10.00 | 67% | 33% | 0% |
2024 ARGOS @ Columbia | 11/23/2024 | Y | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
2024 ARGOS @ McMaster | 11/17/2024 | Y | 5 | 18.00 | 100% | 80% | 0% |
2024 ARGOS @ Stanford | 02/22/2025 | Y | 3 | 23.33 | 100% | 100% | 33% |
2024 ARGOS Online | 03/22/2025 | Y | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 67% | 33% |
Data
I'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up | Moderator Can't Neg me While in Alpha | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
Communism is Soviet power plus the yassification of the whole country | Ryan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan Quizbowlers | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
You cannot go to Aarhus to see his peat-brown head / With eyes like ripening fruit | She Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA Interfere | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
Simpson Agonistes: The Crisis of Donut | Tensei Shitara Flashcard Data Ken | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
The Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork Orange | as rational as the square root of two power bottoms | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |