The protagonist of a novel by this author quits being an office assistant after her lover is engaged to their boss’s daughter. The protagonist of a novel by this author kills her village’s corrupt mayor with a hoe for impregnating her niece and arresting her son. In a novel by this author, the protagonist’s uncle sends her to marry an abusive man whose chin leaks pus, but she runs away to a coffeeshop owner who beats her for wanting to get a job. An Arab prince agrees to (*) pay 3,000 pounds to have sex with the protagonist in a novel by this author, who criticized female genital mutilation in the book Women and Sex. The psychiatrist narrator interviews the prostitute Firdaus, who was imprisoned for killing her pimp, in a novel by this author of God Dies by the Nile. For 10 points, name this Egyptian feminist author of Woman at Point Zero. ■END■
| 2025 Chicago Open | 2025-08-09 | Y | 10 | 80% | 30% | 30% | 106.88 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mitch McCullar | Thamos, King of Egypt: The Sahara of the Mozart | The True Dharma Eye of the Juan Soto School | 65 | 15 |
| John Lawrence | Will They Ever Finish Bruckner’s Ninth Boulevard? | BHSU B | 78 | 15 |
| Alvin Guo | Please sir, may I have some morb? | I worship the Pyramid (abandoned Soviet coal mining settlement on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard) | 86 | 15 |
| Jordan Brownstein | I worship the Pyramid (abandoned Soviet coal mining settlement on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard) | Please sir, may I have some morb? | 86 | -5 |
| Rahul Keyal | The RAND Coöperation | Broken Socal Scene | 88 | 10 |
| Shahar Schwartz | Li Bai Chocolate Mushussu Pacha Latte | "Real quiz bowl" only consists of the ACF academic pyramidal scene and the late 2010s NAQT scene. | 110 | -5 |
| Tracy Mirkin | Floridovician | Mumbo Jumbo Will Labubu | 119 | 10 |
| Auroni Gupta | BHSU X | "real numbers are uncountable" factoid actually just statistical error. diagonal georg | 124 | 10 |
| Ved Muthusamy | Do re mi fa serving negs | Woke Michael Du be like "I'm a genders player" | 146 | -5 |
| Eric Bobrow | 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 2k5, RNBQKBNR b Q - 99 66 | Enjoying the Hole Experience | 146 | 10 |
| Henry Atkins | No, explaining that your buzz came from watching an isekai is not "Proustian" | The Met on Laserdisc. Bravo! | 149 | 10 |
| Adrian Wong | Woke Michael Du be like "I'm a genders player" | Do re mi fa serving negs | 153 | 0 |