In a poem, one of these animals that survives “where two rocks almost meet” gives out a “little whistle” like “we who prefer to live,” referencing an Appalachian name for these animals. An AABB-rhymed poem spoken by one of these animals concludes with the brag “I have been so instinctively thorough / About my crevice and burrow.” That poem from A Further Range is titled for a “drumlin” one of these creatures. The “Higher Laws” chapter of Walden begins with Thoreau’s sudden urge to “seize” one of these animals crossing his path “and devour him raw.” The speaker of another poem considers (*) “This sleep of mine,” before asking if this animal “could say whether it’s like his / Long sleep ... Or just some human sleep.” For 10 points, Robert Frost’s “After Apple-Picking” ends with a consideration of the hibernation of what rodent? ■END■
| 2025 Chicago Open | 2025-08-09 | Y | 11 | 45% | 0% | 73% | 130.20 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Akshar Goyal | Thamos, King of Egypt: The Sahara of the Mozart | Enjoying the Hole Experience | 95 | -5 |
| Matt Bollinger | BHSU B | I worship the Pyramid (abandoned Soviet coal mining settlement on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard) | 95 | -5 |
| Auroni Gupta | BHSU X | Will They Ever Finish Bruckner’s Ninth Boulevard? | 110 | 10 |
| Henry Atkins | No, explaining that your buzz came from watching an isekai is not "Proustian" | "Real quiz bowl" only consists of the ACF academic pyramidal scene and the late 2010s NAQT scene. | 113 | 10 |
| Mattias Ehatamm | Woke Michael Du be like "I'm a genders player" | Floridovician | 130 | -5 |
| Jason Cheng | Broken Socal Scene | The Met on Laserdisc. Bravo! | 130 | -5 |
| Anderson Wang | One Microscopic Pog in His Chat-astrophic Plan | Mumbo Jumbo Will Labubu | 131 | -5 |
| Rahul Keyal | The RAND Coöperation | It's not X, but... defenders | 132 | -5 |
| Anuttam Ramji | Li Bai Chocolate Mushussu Pacha Latte | Halifax Shipping Services | 132 | -5 |
| Guy Indorante | Big is moving to Evanston! | "real numbers are uncountable" factoid actually just statistical error. diagonal georg | 136 | -5 |
| Jordan Brownstein | I worship the Pyramid (abandoned Soviet coal mining settlement on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard) | BHSU B | 142 | 10 |
| June Yin | It's not X, but... defenders | The RAND Coöperation | 143 | 0 |
| JinAh Kim | The True Dharma Eye of the Juan Soto School | Please sir, may I have some morb? | 143 | 10 |
| Eric Mukherjee | Floridovician | Woke Michael Du be like "I'm a genders player" | 143 | 0 |
| Rachel Ezrielev | Enjoying the Hole Experience | Thamos, King of Egypt: The Sahara of the Mozart | 143 | 0 |
| Cooper Roh | Halifax Shipping Services | Li Bai Chocolate Mushussu Pacha Latte | 143 | 0 |
| Jason Shi | Mumbo Jumbo Will Labubu | One Microscopic Pog in His Chat-astrophic Plan | 143 | 10 |
| Matt Lafer | The Met on Laserdisc. Bravo! | Broken Socal Scene | 143 | 0 |
| Sam Macchi | "real numbers are uncountable" factoid actually just statistical error. diagonal georg | Big is moving to Evanston! | 143 | 0 |