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” (15[1])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 (15[1])at the Hotel Del Mar. An “epilogue (15[1])for (15[1])(*) monsters” ends a novel partly titled for this group, whose section on the sky-writing poet Carlos Ramírez Hoffman (10[1]-5[1])became the author’s novel Distant Star. Though he (10[1])doesn’t join this group, (10[1])the title author is drafted into its army in “The Part about Archimboldi” (-5[2])from 2666. (-5[1])For 10 points, (-5[1])a Roberto Bolaño novel is structured as an encyclopedia of what party’s (10[1])“literature in the Americas”? ■END■ (10[2]0[1])

ANSWER: Nazi Party [or Third Reich; or National Socialist German Workers’ Party; accept Nazi Germany or Nazism; accept The Third Reich, El Tercer Reich, Nazi Literature in the Americas, or La literatura nazi en América]
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2024 Chicago Open07/28/2024Y1283%33%42%111.90

Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Arya KarthikCharlotte's Moderately Successful TeamLMM's LLM MLM5415
Matt BollingerBHSU BNJTRANSit (and anwen, I guess)8215
Taylor Harveysticking out your guyot for the ridge push; you're so seafloor spread, you're so fracture zoneNJTRANSit (and bobby, i guess)8915
LouLying on a Mattress at Lou’s Apartment in Pilsen, Chicagovar merchants9015
Ethan AshbrookGalvanized Square Steen and Eco-Friendly Wood VermeerWe Need New Names108-5
Sam BaileyThe Oldest Men in the WorldBerkeley Mafia and the Chicago Boy10810
Stephen LiuLisan al-QuibSAYYID QUTB, DRIVING THE LONGEST CAR YOU’VE EVER SEEN THROUGH TAHRIR SQUARE11610
Raymond WangAMOGH QUIZ HACK? 英雄联盟 400 PPG 24 TUHMindgoblin of Little Hobbes12010
Henry GoffA Nervy Liberal Nanny HenceLes Missourables133-5
Anuttam Ramjiit's the great pumpkinification objection, charlie brownThere are buzzable clues everywhere for those with eyes to see133-5
Jorrest WeintraubThe Jeam TeamI’ll take a quiet 10 / A handshake of CO (Chicago Open)135-5
Chinmay Kansarawhen you look this good, you don’t have to know anythinggenAI this, genAI that, have you found your 真爱 yet138-5
Caleb KendrickWe Need New NamesGalvanized Square Steen and Eco-Friendly Wood Vermeer15010
Emmett LaurieI’ll take a quiet 10 / A handshake of CO (Chicago Open)The Jeam Team15510
Christopher SimsThere are buzzable clues everywhere for those with eyes to seeit's the great pumpkinification objection, charlie brown1550
Kevin WanggenAI this, genAI that, have you found your 真爱 yetwhen you look this good, you don’t have to know anything15510