Question
In this essay, the author recounts meeting a black soldier who shows him “the marvels of Dick Tracy and Li’l Abner.” This essay mentions an artist who “wanted to kill” the moonlight who was appointed to a position “which treated moonlight with great respect.” This essay uses Wittgenstein’s family resemblance to analyze the decreasing commonalities of abc, bcd, cde, and def. This essay notes how the “ersatz phallic exercise” of “[playing] with weapons” is a tendency of an archetypal (*) hero who is “impatient to die.” This essay calls Gabriele D’Annunzio “a dandy who in Germany or in Russia would have been sent to the firing squad.” Common properties of this essay’s title system include “selective populism,” “action for action’s sake,” and a “cult of tradition.” For 10 points, “Fourteen Ways of Looking at a Blackshirt” is the subtitle of what essay by Umberto Eco analyzing a political system? ■END■
- Total Buzzes
- Correct Buzzes
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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Erik Christensen | I'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up | Communism is Soviet power plus the yassification of the whole country | 56 | 15 |
Mattias Ehatamm | You cannot go to Aarhus to see his peat-brown head / With eyes like ripening fruit | Tensei Shitara Flashcard Data Ken | 114 | -5 |
Jack van Nostrand | Ryan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan Quizbowlers | Moderator Can't Neg me While in Alpha | 124 | -5 |
Gareth Thorlakson | Simpson Agonistes: The Crisis of Donut | as rational as the square root of two power bottoms | 127 | -5 |
Adil Haider | The Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork Orange | She Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA Interfere | 142 | -5 |
Yihong Chen | Moderator Can't Neg me While in Alpha | Ryan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan Quizbowlers | 148 | 0 |
Raymond Chen | She Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA Interfere | The Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork Orange | 148 | 10 |
Kunaal Chandrashekar | as rational as the square root of two power bottoms | Simpson Agonistes: The Crisis of Donut | 148 | 10 |
Summary
2024 ARGOS @ Stanford | 02/22/2025 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 126.33 |
2024 ARGOS Online | 03/22/2025 | Y | 3 | 100% | 67% | 0% | 66.00 |
2024 ARGOS @ Brandeis | 03/22/2025 | Y | 3 | 67% | 0% | 33% | 139.50 |
2024 ARGOS @ McMaster | 11/17/2024 | Y | 5 | 60% | 20% | 80% | 117.33 |
2024 ARGOS @ Columbia | 11/23/2024 | Y | 3 | 67% | 0% | 0% | 103.00 |
2024 ARGOS @ Chicago | 11/23/2024 | Y | 6 | 83% | 0% | 0% | 129.80 |
2024 ARGOS @ Christ's College | 12/14/2024 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 130.00 |