Question
This character uses the Raincoats’ cover of “Lola” to illustrate how cover songs can provide the “simple pleasures of drag.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this character, a shapeshifter who loves punk and grunge rock. He includes artists like Bikini Kill on a mixtape he makes for the lesbian Diane.
ANSWER: Paul Polydoris [or Paul Polydoris; accept Polly]
[10m] Paul “takes the form of a mortal” one of these people in a novel by Andrea Lawlor. This sort of person “is a half-formed thing” according to the title of a dark stream-of-consciousness novel by Eimear McBride (“EE-murr McBride”).
ANSWER: girls [accept Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl or A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing; reject synonyms]
[10e] The line “Let me tell you about when I was a girl, our grandfather says” opens this author’s retelling of the Iphis and Ianthe myth, Girl Meets Boy. This Scottish author revisited themes of genderfluidity in How to Be Both and Summer, part of her seasonal quartet.
ANSWER: Ali Smith
<JK, British Literature>
Summary
| 2024 Chicago Open | 07/28/2024 | Y | 15 | 10.00 | 67% | 33% | 0% |
Data
| We Need New Names | A Nervy Liberal Nanny Hence | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Are You There, Chat? It's Me, Margaret | AMOGH QUIZ HACK? 英雄联盟 400 PPG 24 TUH | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Berkeley Mafia and the Chicago Boy | var merchants | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Lisan al-Quib | Galvanized Square Steen and Eco-Friendly Wood Vermeer | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| BHSU B | I’ll take a quiet 10 / A handshake of CO (Chicago Open) | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Les Missourables | Mindgoblin of Little Hobbes | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| NJTRANSit (and anwen, I guess) | genAI this, genAI that, have you found your 真爱 yet | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| NJTRANSit (and bobby, i guess) | Lying on a Mattress at Lou’s Apartment in Pilsen, Chicago | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Punished "Venom" BHSU | The Dyatlov Passement incident | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| when you look this good, you don’t have to know anything | SAYYID QUTB, DRIVING THE LONGEST CAR YOU’VE EVER SEEN THROUGH TAHRIR SQUARE | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| sticking out your guyot for the ridge push; you're so seafloor spread, you're so fracture zone | The Empire Bikes Back | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| The Jeam Team | First Cause, First Cause, make me young! | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| The Oldest Men in the World | Charlotte's Moderately Successful Team | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Read slowly: A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A Read quickly: A | There are buzzable clues everywhere for those with eyes to see | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| LMM's LLM MLM | it's the great pumpkinification objection, charlie brown | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |