Question
After a speech delivered “Once in the Jurassic about 150 million years ago,” a figure manifests in his “true form” as this character. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this figure invoked with the war spell “DROWN THEIR BUTTS / CRUSH THEIR BUTTS / DROWN THEIR BUTTS / CRUSH THEIR BUTTS,” after which he will put out the enemy with his “vajra-shovel.”
ANSWER: Smokey the Bear [accept “Smokey the Bear Sutra”]
[10m] This poet practiced Zen meditation as a fire lookout in Washington State, which influenced his poem “Smokey the Bear Sutra” and the works from his collection Turtle Island.
ANSWER: Gary Snyder
[10e] This fellow Beatnik wrote a sutra titled The Scripture of the Golden Eternity. This author depicted Snyder as Japhy Ryder in the novel The Dharma Bums.
ANSWER: Jack Kerouac [or Jean-Louis Lebris de Kérouac]
<Literature - American Literature - Misc Literature>
Summary
| 2024 ARGOS @ Brandeis | 03/22/2025 | Y | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| 2024 ARGOS @ Chicago | 11/23/2024 | Y | 4 | 20.00 | 100% | 50% | 50% |
| 2024 ARGOS @ Christ's College | 12/14/2024 | Y | 3 | 10.00 | 67% | 33% | 0% |
| 2024 ARGOS @ Columbia | 11/23/2024 | Y | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| 2024 ARGOS @ McMaster | 11/17/2024 | Y | 5 | 18.00 | 100% | 80% | 0% |
| 2024 ARGOS @ Stanford | 02/22/2025 | Y | 3 | 23.33 | 100% | 100% | 33% |
| 2024 ARGOS Online | 03/22/2025 | Y | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 67% | 33% |
Data
| CLEVELAND, THIS IS FOR YOU! | Aw we're so sorry to hear that maman died today, she gets five big booms | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Thompson et al. | I wish it were possible to freeze time so I would never have to watch you retire | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| throw away your cards, rally in the streets | UBC | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |