Question
In a story by this author, a man runs into the wife of a mercantile boat captain at three different concerts before arranging to meet each other. Another story by this author ends as a girl clutches an iron railing and looks at her lover with “no sign of love or farewell or recognition.” A man in a story by this author described as an “outcast from life’s feast” reads a newspaper article about the death of a woman who once pressed his hand to her cheek. This author wrote a story whose title character recalls her (*) promise to her dying mother and decides against immigrating to Buenos Aires with Frank. The narrator of a story by this author sees himself as “a creature driven and derided by vanity” after failing to obtain a gift for Mangan’s sister at the title bazaar. For 10 points, name this author whose stories “A Painful Case” and “Eveline” appear alongside “Araby” in his collection Dubliners. ■END■
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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Adrian Wong | The Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork Orange | You cannot go to Aarhus to see his peat-brown head / With eyes like ripening fruit | 53 | 15 |
Raymond Chen | She Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA Interfere | Simpson Agonistes: The Crisis of Donut | 88 | 15 |
Maude-Sophie Lockman | as rational as the square root of two power bottoms | Ryan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan Quizbowlers | 107 | -5 |
Caleb Ott | Tensei Shitara Flashcard Data Ken | I'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up | 110 | 10 |
Yihong Chen | Moderator Can't Neg me While in Alpha | Communism is Soviet power plus the yassification of the whole country | 110 | 10 |
Jack van Nostrand | Ryan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan Quizbowlers | as rational as the square root of two power bottoms | 162 | 10 |
Summary
2024 ARGOS @ Stanford | 02/22/2025 | Y | 3 | 100% | 100% | 0% | 70.00 |
2024 ARGOS Online | 03/22/2025 | Y | 3 | 100% | 67% | 0% | 81.67 |
2024 ARGOS @ Brandeis | 03/22/2025 | Y | 3 | 100% | 67% | 0% | 74.33 |
2024 ARGOS @ McMaster | 11/17/2024 | Y | 5 | 100% | 40% | 20% | 104.60 |
2024 ARGOS @ Columbia | 11/23/2024 | Y | 3 | 100% | 33% | 0% | 119.67 |
2024 ARGOS @ Chicago | 11/23/2024 | Y | 6 | 100% | 17% | 17% | 118.50 |
2024 ARGOS @ Christ's College | 12/14/2024 | Y | 3 | 100% | 33% | 0% | 110.00 |