Drawing on a quandary first proposed by Chateaubriand, this author wrote a novella in which the civil servant Teodoro rings a bell that gives him a huge financial windfall but kills Ti Chin-Fu in distant China. That novella by this author is The Mandarin. Margaret Jull Costa translated a 1,000-page novel by this author that concludes with a doctor agreeing that nothing is worth running for before immediately chasing a (*) cable car. In that family saga by this author, the patriarch Alfonso dies of apoplexy after learning that his grandchildren Carlos and Maria are lovers. In another novel by this author, a wet nurse is paid to kill the baby of the teenager Amélia, who the title lecherous priest had seduced. The Maias and The Crime of Father Amaro are by, for 10 points, what foremost realist novelist from Portugal? ■END■
| 2025 Chicago Open | 2025-08-09 | Y | 12 | 83% | 25% | 42% | 87.80 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jordan Brownstein | I worship the Pyramid (abandoned Soviet coal mining settlement on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard) | Enjoying the Hole Experience | 18 | 15 |
| William Golden | Mumbo Jumbo Will Labubu | Broken Socal Scene | 55 | -5 |
| Henry Atkins | No, explaining that your buzz came from watching an isekai is not "Proustian" | Do re mi fa serving negs | 65 | 15 |
| Tejas Raje | BHSU B | It's not X, but... defenders | 67 | 15 |
| Mitch McCullar | Thamos, King of Egypt: The Sahara of the Mozart | Woke Michael Du be like "I'm a genders player" | 68 | -5 |
| Guy Indorante | Big is moving to Evanston! | Halifax Shipping Services | 78 | 10 |
| Will Alston | Will They Ever Finish Bruckner’s Ninth Boulevard? | The True Dharma Eye of the Juan Soto School | 78 | 10 |
| Aseem Keyal | Broken Socal Scene | Mumbo Jumbo Will Labubu | 80 | 10 |
| Shahar Schwartz | Li Bai Chocolate Mushussu Pacha Latte | 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 2k5, RNBQKBNR b Q - 99 66 | 84 | -5 |
| John Marvin | "Real quiz bowl" only consists of the ACF academic pyramidal scene and the late 2010s NAQT scene. | BHSU X | 84 | -5 |
| Rahul Keyal | The RAND Coöperation | "real numbers are uncountable" factoid actually just statistical error. diagonal georg | 92 | 10 |
| Auroni Gupta | BHSU X | "Real quiz bowl" only consists of the ACF academic pyramidal scene and the late 2010s NAQT scene. | 120 | 10 |
| Jerry Vinokurov | The Met on Laserdisc. Bravo! | One Microscopic Pog in His Chat-astrophic Plan | 122 | -5 |
| Tracy Mirkin | Floridovician | Please sir, may I have some morb? | 140 | 10 |
| Alvin Guo | Please sir, may I have some morb? | Floridovician | 140 | 0 |
| Mattias Ehatamm | Woke Michael Du be like "I'm a genders player" | Thamos, King of Egypt: The Sahara of the Mozart | 140 | 10 |