Question
In a novel titled for this group, the protagonist increasingly identifies with the fictional detective Florian Linden as he spends time with menacing locals like the Wolf and the Lamb and visits a “fortress” of pedal boats inhabited by a burn victim. In a novel titled for this group, the section about the “Mendiluce Clan” ends with Luz crashing her Alfa Romeo into a gas station. In a novel titled for this group, El Quemado takes up war games during Udo Berger’s vacation at the Hotel Del Mar. An “epilogue for (*) monsters” ends a novel partly titled for this group, whose section on the sky-writing poet Carlos Ramírez Hoffman became the author’s novel Distant Star. Though he doesn’t join this group, the title author is drafted into its army in “The Part about Archimboldi” from 2666. For 10 points, a Roberto Bolaño novel is structured as an encyclopedia of what party’s “literature in the Americas”? ■END■
Summary
2024 Chicago Open | 07/28/2024 | Y | 12 | 83% | 33% | 42% | 111.90 |
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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Arya Karthik | Charlotte's Moderately Successful Team | LMM's LLM MLM | 54 | 15 |
Matt Bollinger | BHSU B | NJTRANSit (and anwen, I guess) | 82 | 15 |
Taylor Harvey | sticking out your guyot for the ridge push; you're so seafloor spread, you're so fracture zone | NJTRANSit (and bobby, i guess) | 89 | 15 |
Lou | Lying on a Mattress at Lou’s Apartment in Pilsen, Chicago | var merchants | 90 | 15 |
Ethan Ashbrook | Galvanized Square Steen and Eco-Friendly Wood Vermeer | We Need New Names | 108 | -5 |
Sam Bailey | The Oldest Men in the World | Berkeley Mafia and the Chicago Boy | 108 | 10 |
Stephen Liu | Lisan al-Quib | SAYYID QUTB, DRIVING THE LONGEST CAR YOU’VE EVER SEEN THROUGH TAHRIR SQUARE | 116 | 10 |
Raymond Wang | AMOGH QUIZ HACK? 英雄联盟 400 PPG 24 TUH | Mindgoblin of Little Hobbes | 120 | 10 |
Henry Goff | A Nervy Liberal Nanny Hence | Les Missourables | 133 | -5 |
Anuttam Ramji | it's the great pumpkinification objection, charlie brown | There are buzzable clues everywhere for those with eyes to see | 133 | -5 |
Jorrest Weintraub | The Jeam Team | I’ll take a quiet 10 / A handshake of CO (Chicago Open) | 135 | -5 |
Chinmay Kansara | when you look this good, you don’t have to know anything | genAI this, genAI that, have you found your 真爱 yet | 138 | -5 |
Caleb Kendrick | We Need New Names | Galvanized Square Steen and Eco-Friendly Wood Vermeer | 150 | 10 |
Emmett Laurie | I’ll take a quiet 10 / A handshake of CO (Chicago Open) | The Jeam Team | 155 | 10 |
Christopher Sims | There are buzzable clues everywhere for those with eyes to see | it's the great pumpkinification objection, charlie brown | 155 | 0 |
Kevin Wang | genAI this, genAI that, have you found your 真爱 yet | when you look this good, you don’t have to know anything | 155 | 10 |