In this short story, the protagonist returns to find his “little zinc house” standing, whereas only two houses away a wealthy contractor’s home was reduced to rubble. After the protagonist of this short story buries a beloved object in the same bush clearing where his youngest son is buried, he is surprised to find it intact when he digs it back up a year later. In this story, the narrator opens a bar in his house and considers himself lucky to have his family’s five (*) surviving “heads.” The protagonist of this story exchanges rebel currency for a windfall of twenty pounds, but then loses it to thieves that night, to which he says, “Nothing puzzles God.” For 10 points, the bike courier Jonathan receives and then loses an “egg-rasher” in what short story about the fallout of the Biafran War, written by Chinua Achebe? ■END■
| 2025 Chicago Open | 2025-08-09 | Y | 10 | 90% | 10% | 20% | 108.22 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sinecio Morales | Enjoying the Hole Experience | The RAND Coöperation | 29 | 15 |
| Jaimie Carlson | The True Dharma Eye of the Juan Soto School | Woke Michael Du be like "I'm a genders player" | 86 | 10 |
| Charles Hang | It's not X, but... defenders | The Met on Laserdisc. Bravo! | 99 | -5 |
| Omkar Marathe | Halifax Shipping Services | Thamos, King of Egypt: The Sahara of the Mozart | 100 | 10 |
| Matt Bollinger | BHSU B | No, explaining that your buzz came from watching an isekai is not "Proustian" | 108 | 10 |
| Anuttam Ramji | Li Bai Chocolate Mushussu Pacha Latte | Floridovician | 115 | -5 |
| Will Alston | Will They Ever Finish Bruckner’s Ninth Boulevard? | Do re mi fa serving negs | 115 | 10 |
| Jordan Brownstein | I worship the Pyramid (abandoned Soviet coal mining settlement on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard) | BHSU X | 121 | 10 |
| Jason Cheng | Broken Socal Scene | "Real quiz bowl" only consists of the ACF academic pyramidal scene and the late 2010s NAQT scene. | 128 | 10 |
| Tracy Mirkin | Floridovician | Li Bai Chocolate Mushussu Pacha Latte | 143 | 10 |
| William Golden | Mumbo Jumbo Will Labubu | Please sir, may I have some morb? | 144 | 0 |
| Mike Bentley | The Met on Laserdisc. Bravo! | It's not X, but... defenders | 144 | 10 |