Question
This was the main language of a jazz pop musician whose signature song calls his home city “a thousand colors, a thousand fears.” It’s not Spanish, but a quirky Guinness ad popularized Pérez Prado’s mambo version of a song in this language whose title means “boy” or “urchin.” A song in this language about an “evil woman” was first written on a cigarette pack by a comedian known by the mononym Totò. A 1956 song in this language uses English phrases like “I love you,” “whiskey,” “soda,” and “rock ’n’ roll” to satirize its speakers as wannabe (*) Americans. Elvis’s single “It’s Now or Never” was based on a song in this language whose title means “my sunshine.” Richard Strauss’s first tone poem accidentally plagiarized a song in this language that celebrates a cable railway on a volcano. For 10 points, name this language used in “Funiculì, Funiculà,” “’O Sole Mio,” and other songs from Campania. ■END■
Summary
2024 Chicago Open | 07/28/2024 | Y | 15 | 100% | 13% | 53% | 127.00 |
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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Colin Stewart | var merchants | First Cause, First Cause, make me young! | 49 | -5 |
Nick Jensen | LMM's LLM MLM | A Nervy Liberal Nanny Hence | 73 | 15 |
William Golden | The Dyatlov Passement incident | I’ll take a quiet 10 / A handshake of CO (Chicago Open) | 81 | -5 |
Caleb Kendrick | We Need New Names | Punished "Venom" BHSU | 86 | -5 |
Natan Holtzman | Lisan al-Quib | Charlotte's Moderately Successful Team | 87 | -5 |
Doug Simons | Lying on a Mattress at Lou’s Apartment in Pilsen, Chicago | Galvanized Square Steen and Eco-Friendly Wood Vermeer | 93 | 15 |
Anuttam Ramji | it's the great pumpkinification objection, charlie brown | The Empire Bikes Back | 94 | -5 |
Justin Wytmar | Are You There, Chat? It's Me, Margaret | The Oldest Men in the World | 97 | 10 |
Kevin Wang | genAI this, genAI that, have you found your 真爱 yet | SAYYID QUTB, DRIVING THE LONGEST CAR YOU’VE EVER SEEN THROUGH TAHRIR SQUARE | 97 | -5 |
Vivek Sasse | There are buzzable clues everywhere for those with eyes to see | AMOGH QUIZ HACK? 英雄联盟 400 PPG 24 TUH | 98 | -5 |
Michael Coates | Berkeley Mafia and the Chicago Boy | Mindgoblin of Little Hobbes | 108 | 10 |
John Lawrence | BHSU B | sticking out your guyot for the ridge push; you're so seafloor spread, you're so fracture zone | 111 | 10 |
Jorrest Weintraub | The Jeam Team | when you look this good, you don’t have to know anything | 121 | 10 |
Henry Atkins | The Empire Bikes Back | it's the great pumpkinification objection, charlie brown | 122 | 10 |
Eric Bobrow | Read slowly: A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A Read quickly: A | NJTRANSit (and bobby, i guess) | 123 | 10 |
Jeremy Tsai | I’ll take a quiet 10 / A handshake of CO (Chicago Open) | The Dyatlov Passement incident | 141 | 10 |
Rob Carson | Punished "Venom" BHSU | We Need New Names | 141 | 10 |
Fierro Grey | NJTRANSit (and anwen, I guess) | Les Missourables | 146 | -5 |
Arya Karthik | Charlotte's Moderately Successful Team | Lisan al-Quib | 155 | 10 |
Nikhil Desai | First Cause, First Cause, make me young! | var merchants | 155 | 10 |
Charles Hang | Les Missourables | NJTRANSit (and anwen, I guess) | 155 | 10 |
Raymond Wang | AMOGH QUIZ HACK? 英雄联盟 400 PPG 24 TUH | There are buzzable clues everywhere for those with eyes to see | 155 | 10 |
Matt Weiner | SAYYID QUTB, DRIVING THE LONGEST CAR YOU’VE EVER SEEN THROUGH TAHRIR SQUARE | genAI this, genAI that, have you found your 真爱 yet | 155 | 10 |