Question
After his friend dies from AIDS, a man from this city recalls reading Triste Tropiques and contrasts Lévi-Strauss and Foucault in the novel Notes of a Desolate Man. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this city that is the setting of Crystal Boys. A member of this city’s ’90s queer punk scene wrote Last Words from Montmartre and Notes of a Crocodile.
ANSWER: Taipei [or Taipei City; or Táiběi] (Notes of a Desolate Man is by Chu T’ien-wen. Crystal Boys is by Pai Hsien-yung.)
[10h] Qiu Miaojin’s contemporary Chi Ta-wei wrote this 1995 novel, which is set in the 22nd-century underwater dystopia of T City. This novel’s title references the M-skins that record clients’ experiences at the Salon Canary.
ANSWER: The Membranes [or Mó]
[10e] The term “tongzhi” (“tong-jurr”) for gay people inspired the pseudonymous author of the 1996 romance novel Beijing Comrades, which was published in this manner. In 2020, the Chinese government censored a story about Xiao Zhan published in this manner by Archive of Our Own.
ANSWER: online [or on the Internet; accept electronically; prompt on self-published or published as fan-fiction]
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Summary
| 2024 Chicago Open | 07/28/2024 | Y | 15 | 12.67 | 87% | 40% | 0% |
Data
| AMOGH QUIZ HACK? 英雄联盟 400 PPG 24 TUH | Read slowly: A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A Read quickly: A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Charlotte's Moderately Successful Team | Lying on a Mattress at Lou’s Apartment in Pilsen, Chicago | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| when you look this good, you don’t have to know anything | First Cause, First Cause, make me young! | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| sticking out your guyot for the ridge push; you're so seafloor spread, you're so fracture zone | I’ll take a quiet 10 / A handshake of CO (Chicago Open) | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| LMM's LLM MLM | Punished "Venom" BHSU | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Berkeley Mafia and the Chicago Boy | Les Missourables | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Lisan al-Quib | The Oldest Men in the World | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| var merchants | Mindgoblin of Little Hobbes | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| NJTRANSit (and anwen, I guess) | SAYYID QUTB, DRIVING THE LONGEST CAR YOU’VE EVER SEEN THROUGH TAHRIR SQUARE | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Galvanized Square Steen and Eco-Friendly Wood Vermeer | NJTRANSit (and bobby, i guess) | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| We Need New Names | The Dyatlov Passement incident | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| BHSU B | The Empire Bikes Back | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| genAI this, genAI that, have you found your 真爱 yet | The Jeam Team | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Are You There, Chat? It's Me, Margaret | There are buzzable clues everywhere for those with eyes to see | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| A Nervy Liberal Nanny Hence | it's the great pumpkinification objection, charlie brown | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |