Question

A poem set at 2 AM alternates the all-caps lines of a person with this profession with a terse conversation that includes the lines “Say!... Yes?... I’m your… sweetie, ain’t I?” A poet who aligned himself with this profession as a certain “-ologist” declared that two of them will “wash your troubles / your troubles away!” While observing a person with this profession, the speaker of a poem rhymes “the other night” and“the pale dull pallor of an old gas light” before repeating (*) “He did a lazy sway…. (10[2]-5[1])/ He did a lazy sway….” In that poem, (10[1])a man with this profession whom the speaker saw on Lenox Avenue “slept like a rock or a man that’s dead.” For 10 points, name this profession depicted by Langston Hughes (-5[1])in “The Weary Blues.” ■END■ (10[1]0[2])

ANSWER: musicians [accept jazz musicians; accept blues musicians; accept singers; accept piano players, saxophonists, or other players of particular instruments; prompt on bluesologist] (The first poem is “The Cat and the Saxophone” by Langston Hughes; the second clue refers to Gil Scott-Heron, who called himself a “bluesologist.”)
<Literature - American Literature>
= Average correct buzz position

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Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Jack RadoColumbia ALehigh B89-5
Evan SchleckGathererBard8910
William OrrYaleRutgers8910
Eshan PantNYU AColumbia B9810
Miles JaffeeLehigh ANYU C129-5
Will HollisterLehigh BColumbia A1340
Jeff GuanNYU CLehigh A1340
Annie WilliamsNYU BPrinceton13410

Summary

2024 Booster Shot (Columbia)02/23/2024Y667%0%33%102.50
2024 Booster Shot (Waterloo)02/23/2024Y4100%0%25%119.25
2024 Booster Shot (Vanderbilt)03/02/2024Y4100%0%25%126.25
2024 Booster Shot (Great Lakes)03/09/2024Y6100%33%0%103.00
2024 Booster Shot (WUSTL)03/09/2024Y2100%0%0%111.50