Question

In a story partly titled for this adjective, a character who likens her body to laminated metal stands beside a lamp while smoking cigarettes with the narrator. In that Gabriel García Márquez story, a woman obsessively writes a phrase containing this adjective to get a man she meets in a dream to recall her. While visiting a Lahore mosque, a Scottish professor offers the title objects to a blind beggar in a story partly titled for this adjective (15[1])from (*) Shakespeare’s Memory. A collection named for this adjective includes the stories “The Veil of Queen Mab” and one in which a monarch forces a poor poet to play a music box, titled “The Bourgeois King.” This adjective, which partly titles a Borges story about replicating stones, names a collection that includes (-5[1])short stories along with poems like “Symphony in Gray Major.” For 10 points, what color titles a modernismo collection by Rubén Darío? ■END■ (10[2])

ANSWER: blue [or azul; accept “Blue Tigers” or “Tigres azules”; accept “Eyes of a Blue Dog” or “Ojos de perro azul”]
<Literature - World Literature - Short Fiction>
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Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Ariel Faederthrow away your cards, rally in the streetsCLEVELAND, THIS IS FOR YOU!7715
Henry BonI wish it were possible to freeze time so I would never have to watch you retireUBC129-5
Joel MilesThompson et al.Aw we're so sorry to hear that maman died today, she gets five big booms15210
Russell NipUBCI wish it were possible to freeze time so I would never have to watch you retire15210

Summary

2024 ARGOS @ Brandeis03/22/2025Y3100%0%0%148.00
2024 ARGOS Online03/22/2025Y3100%33%33%127.00