Question

In a story titled for this kind of person, the protagonist steps out her front door one night and sees a horse pulling a rickety wagon slip on ice and fall down right in front of her. In a novel whose title refers to the protagonist as this kind of person, the protagonist is told to “cultivate some inhibitions” by Sigmund Freud. A story titled for this kind of person ends after the protagonist is told to “cheer up” by the black maid Nettie after she gives the toast “Here’s (*) mud in your eye.” This (-5[1])is the (10[1])[emphasize] second type of person in the title of a novel whose protagonist tricks men like Francis Beekman with her friend Dorothy Shaw. Two vials of veronal are used in an attempted suicide by Hazel Morse in a story titled for a (-5[1])“big” one of these people written by Dorothy Parker. For 10 points, Lorelei Lee is the protagonist of a novel by Anita Loos titled Gentlemen (10[2])Prefer what type of women? (10[2])■END■

ANSWER: blonde [accept “Big Blonde”; prompt on big by asking “how else does the title describe the protagonist?”; accept Gentlemen Prefer Blondes]
<Literature - American Literature - Short Fiction>
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Tony ChenSimpson Agonistes: The Crisis of DonutThe Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork Orange94-5
Henry AtkinsCommunism is Soviet power plus the yassification of the whole countryTensei Shitara Flashcard Data Ken9610
Jared HeYou cannot go to Aarhus to see his peat-brown head / With eyes like ripening fruitI'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up138-5
Aaron Dos RemediosModerator Can't Neg me While in Alphaas rational as the square root of two power bottoms16310
Jack van NostrandRyan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan QuizbowlersShe Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA Interfere16310
Erik ChristensenI'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks upYou cannot go to Aarhus to see his peat-brown head / With eyes like ripening fruit16810
Adrian WongThe Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork OrangeSimpson Agonistes: The Crisis of Donut16810

Summary

2024 ARGOS @ Stanford02/22/2025Y3100%0%0%106.33
2024 ARGOS @ McMaster11/17/2024Y5100%0%40%151.60
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