Question

After a corrupt one of these animals named Saltpetre assassinates their king, they leave a city for the mountains of Sicily in a Dino Buzzati children's book. A giant flying one of these (15[1])animals named Mord terrorizes the ruined city in which Jeff VanderMeer's novel Borne is set. Anna Kos (15[1])is accompanied by one of these animals in Jakub Rozalski's 1920+ world, which inspired the board game (*) Scythe. In a trilogy, as these animals adopt (10[1])human mannerisms, they lose their natural ability to sense deceit. A race of these animals who use sky-iron to craft their armor rule Svalbard in that trilogy, (10[1])whose protagonist (10[1])destroys the Bolvangar research station with the help of one of them named Iorek; that trilogy is Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials. For 10 points, one of what animals says “We didn’t realize we were making memories. We just thought we were having fun” in a book set in the Hundred Acre Wood? ■END■

ANSWER: bears [accept polar bears; accept panserbjørne; accept Pooh Bears] (The Buzzati book is The Bears' Famous Invasion of Sicily.)
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Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Tony ChenSimpson Agonistes: The Crisis of DonutTensei Shitara Flashcard Data Ken3215
Raymond ChenShe Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA InterfereYou cannot go to Aarhus to see his peat-brown head / With eyes like ripening fruit4915
Kais JessaCommunism is Soviet power plus the yassification of the whole countryRyan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan Quizbowlers7410
Adil HaiderThe Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork Orangeas rational as the square root of two power bottoms10110
Erik ChristensenI'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks upModerator Can't Neg me While in Alpha10310

Summary

2024 ARGOS @ Stanford02/22/2025Y3100%33%0%83.67
2024 ARGOS @ McMaster11/17/2024Y5100%40%0%71.80
2024 ARGOS @ Chicago11/23/2024Y6100%33%0%94.33
2024 ARGOS @ Columbia11/23/2024Y3100%33%0%84.00
2024 ARGOS @ Christ's College12/14/2024Y3100%33%0%88.00