Question

In a climactic moment, this character feels like “Marie Antoinette bound for the guillotine” before meeting a man in a “white coat” who drops his cigarette in disbelief at this character’s strange request. When speaking of “common kindness,” this character is cut off by an interlocutor who says that quoting Little Women is “out of style.” A sixteen-year-old boy threatens to use a two-by-four to hit this character returning from a dressing-room. While eavesdropping on her aunt and (*) cousin, this character listens to a criticism of her “crazy Indian blood.” After agreeing to go to the Sevier Hotel in an effort to impress Warren McIntyre, this character realizes that her cousin Marjorie has tricked her, leading this character to cut off Marjorie’s (10[2])braids before heading back to Eau Claire. (10[2])For 10 points, name this girl who, in an F. Scott Fitzgerald story, “Bobs Her Hair.” ■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: Bernice [accept “Bernice Bobs Her Hair”]
<Literature - American Literature - Short Fiction>
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Tony ChenSimpson Agonistes: The Crisis of DonutYou cannot go to Aarhus to see his peat-brown head / With eyes like ripening fruit12110
Caleb OttTensei Shitara Flashcard Data KenRyan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan Quizbowlers12110
Henry AtkinsCommunism is Soviet power plus the yassification of the whole countryThe Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork Orange12810
Raymond ChenShe Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA InterfereModerator Can't Neg me While in Alpha12810
Erik ChristensenI'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up as rational as the square root of two power bottoms14510

Summary

2024 ARGOS @ Stanford02/22/2025Y3100%33%0%101.33
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