Question
Frank reveals his intent to leave his wife Nancy for a person with this job, then orders four stacks of pancakes for his gluttonous friend Tub, near the end of Tobias Wolff’s story “Hunters in the Snow.” A character with this job examines herself in the mirror after putting on a pair of men’s underwear “about twenty sizes too big for her.” At a party, a man fantasizes about a person with this job while the other guests baste his wife with butter to slip her back into her girdle. In a story first published in (*) Pricksongs & Descants, a character with this job receives phone calls from teenagers playing pinball at a drugstore. At the end of a story consisting of 108 often-contradictory episodes, a character with this job either drowns in a bathtub or puts Jimmy and Bitsy Tucker to sleep. For 10 points, a 16-year-old girl with what job titles a story by Robert Coover? ■END■
Summary
2024 Chicago Open | 07/28/2024 | Y | 14 | 93% | 0% | 21% | 149.15 |
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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Taylor Harvey | sticking out your guyot for the ridge push; you're so seafloor spread, you're so fracture zone | Punished "Venom" BHSU | 108 | 10 |
Matt Bollinger | BHSU B | We Need New Names | 109 | -5 |
Henry Goff | A Nervy Liberal Nanny Hence | The Dyatlov Passement incident | 124 | 10 |
Milan Fernandez | The Empire Bikes Back | LMM's LLM MLM | 137 | 10 |
Raymond Wang | AMOGH QUIZ HACK? 英雄联盟 400 PPG 24 TUH | Lying on a Mattress at Lou’s Apartment in Pilsen, Chicago | 139 | -5 |
Nikhil Desai | First Cause, First Cause, make me young! | SAYYID QUTB, DRIVING THE LONGEST CAR YOU’VE EVER SEEN THROUGH TAHRIR SQUARE | 147 | -5 |
Dylan Minarik | Are You There, Chat? It's Me, Margaret | Charlotte's Moderately Successful Team | 148 | 10 |
Rahul Keyal | Lying on a Mattress at Lou’s Apartment in Pilsen, Chicago | AMOGH QUIZ HACK? 英雄联盟 400 PPG 24 TUH | 158 | 0 |
Matt Weiner | SAYYID QUTB, DRIVING THE LONGEST CAR YOU’VE EVER SEEN THROUGH TAHRIR SQUARE | First Cause, First Cause, make me young! | 158 | 10 |
Fred Garvey | Les Missourables | genAI this, genAI that, have you found your 真爱 yet | 158 | 10 |
Joy An | The Jeam Team | Mindgoblin of Little Hobbes | 158 | 10 |
Stephen Liu | Lisan al-Quib | NJTRANSit (and bobby, i guess) | 158 | 10 |
Mike Cheyne | The Oldest Men in the World | Read slowly: A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A Read quickly: A | 158 | 10 |
Christopher Sims | There are buzzable clues everywhere for those with eyes to see | Galvanized Square Steen and Eco-Friendly Wood Vermeer | 158 | 10 |
Caleb Kendrick | We Need New Names | BHSU B | 158 | 10 |
Eve Fleisig | it's the great pumpkinification objection, charlie brown | I’ll take a quiet 10 / A handshake of CO (Chicago Open) | 158 | 10 |
Colin Stewart | var merchants | NJTRANSit (and anwen, I guess) | 158 | 10 |