Question
To entertain a sick boy, the protagonist of this novel reads the book A Bishop among the Bantus and pretends it’s about pirates. Near the end of Chimamanda Adichie’s Americanah, when Ifemelu reunites with Obinze, they discuss this novel, his mother’s favorite. This novel’s protagonist is haunted by the signature “Dicky” on a suicide note and imagines the word “Ticki,” the pet name his wife calls him, in its place. During an interview in Chinua Achebe’s No Longer at Ease, Obi humorously says that this novel was ruined by its “happy ending.” In this novel, the (*) agent Wilson despises the protagonist for having an affair with Helen Rolt. Soon after his servant Ali is killed due to his dealings with the diamond smuggler Yusuf, the protagonist of this novel, a police officer, commits suicide. For 10 points, Major Henry Scobie is the protagonist of what novel by Graham Greene set in West Africa? ■END■
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
---|---|---|---|---|
Raymond Chen | She Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA Interfere | as rational as the square root of two power bottoms | 43 | -5 |
Mattias Ehatamm | You cannot go to Aarhus to see his peat-brown head / With eyes like ripening fruit | Communism is Soviet power plus the yassification of the whole country | 77 | 15 |
Caleb Ott | Tensei Shitara Flashcard Data Ken | Moderator Can't Neg me While in Alpha | 153 | 0 |
Maude-Sophie Lockman | as rational as the square root of two power bottoms | She Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA Interfere | 153 | 0 |
Adil Haider | The Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork Orange | I'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up | 153 | 0 |
Erik Christensen | I'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up | The Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork Orange | 153 | 0 |
Summary
2024 ARGOS @ Stanford | 02/22/2025 | Y | 3 | 33% | 0% | 67% | 117.00 |
2024 ARGOS @ McMaster | 11/17/2024 | Y | 4 | 25% | 25% | 25% | 77.00 |
2024 ARGOS @ Chicago | 11/23/2024 | Y | 6 | 50% | 0% | 17% | 133.33 |
2024 ARGOS @ Columbia | 11/23/2024 | Y | 3 | 67% | 0% | 33% | 147.50 |
2024 ARGOS @ Christ's College | 12/14/2024 | Y | 3 | 67% | 0% | 0% | 135.00 |