Question

An artist’s apprentice blames one of these beings for alterations to Murillo’s paintings in an anonymous story often titled for them but originally called “The Unknown Painter.” As evidence of the existence of these beings, William Seabrook cited Article 246 of their homeland’s criminal code in his travelogue The Magic Island. Feeding these beings salt will restore them to their original form, so that they are no longer barred from entry (-5[1])into (*) lan Guinée. Bizango societies are implicated in the creation of these beings, which involves the removal of ti bon ange (10[1])(“tee bone onzh”). A bokor used a concoction including tetrodotoxin (10[2])from pufferfish to make Clairvius Narcisse into one of these beings, (10[1])per Wade Davis’s account in his book The Serpent and the Rainbow. For 10 points, name these mindless, undead beings from the folklore of Haiti. ■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: zombies [or zombis; or zonbis]
<Mythology - Mythology>
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Jack van NostrandRyan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan QuizbowlersI'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up 70-5
Adil HaiderThe Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork OrangeModerator Can't Neg me While in Alpha9110
Henry AtkinsCommunism is Soviet power plus the yassification of the whole countrySimpson Agonistes: The Crisis of Donut9810
Liam KusalikYou cannot go to Aarhus to see his peat-brown head / With eyes like ripening fruitas rational as the square root of two power bottoms9810
Micah ColmanTensei Shitara Flashcard Data KenShe Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA Interfere10910
Erik ChristensenI'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up Ryan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan Quizbowlers13510

Summary

2024 ARGOS @ Stanford02/22/2025Y3100%33%0%80.00
2024 ARGOS @ McMaster11/17/2024Y5100%0%20%106.20
2024 ARGOS @ Chicago11/23/2024Y6100%17%17%99.83
2024 ARGOS @ Columbia11/23/2024Y3100%0%0%92.67