This piece’s coda is interrupted by two measures of an unaccompanied right hand melody, marked slentando, that begins “tied pickup B-flat, A-flat, G-flat, down to C, up to F.” This piece’s composer apocryphally improvised it while dreaming that he was drowning in a lake. This piece’s middle section in the enharmonic parallel C-sharp minor uses low, sotto voce quarter note dyads to evoke the plainchant its composer heard at a monastery in Valldemossa. This piece opens with the slurred, sostenuto 4/4 melody “dotted eighth note (*) F, sixteenth note D-flat, low half note A-flat” over a dominant pedal that is respelled in its middle section. This longest piece in its composer’s Opus 28 was written during a vacation in Majorca with George Sand. For 10 points, name this Chopin prelude whose repeated A-flat evokes a type of weather. ■END■
| 2025 Chicago Open | 2025-08-09 | Y | 12 | 100% | 8% | 17% | 122.08 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tracy Mirkin | Floridovician | 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 2k5, RNBQKBNR b Q - 99 66 | 53 | -5 |
| Ophir Lifshitz | I worship the Pyramid (abandoned Soviet coal mining settlement on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard) | Broken Socal Scene | 59 | 15 |
| Justin Wytmar | Thamos, King of Egypt: The Sahara of the Mozart | One Microscopic Pog in His Chat-astrophic Plan | 88 | -5 |
| Jeremy Cummings | It's not X, but... defenders | Halifax Shipping Services | 92 | 10 |
| Sky Li | Woke Michael Du be like "I'm a genders player" | BHSU B | 103 | 10 |
| John Lawrence | Will They Ever Finish Bruckner’s Ninth Boulevard? | The Met on Laserdisc. Bravo! | 130 | 10 |
| Rob Carson | BHSU X | The RAND Coöperation | 131 | 10 |
| Guy Indorante | Big is moving to Evanston! | No, explaining that your buzz came from watching an isekai is not "Proustian" | 132 | 10 |
| JinAh Kim | The True Dharma Eye of the Juan Soto School | Do re mi fa serving negs | 135 | 10 |
| Joel Miles | "real numbers are uncountable" factoid actually just statistical error. diagonal georg | Enjoying the Hole Experience | 135 | 10 |
| Eric Bobrow | 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 2k5, RNBQKBNR b Q - 99 66 | Floridovician | 137 | 10 |
| Jason Shi | Mumbo Jumbo Will Labubu | Li Bai Chocolate Mushussu Pacha Latte | 137 | 10 |
| Swapnil Garg | Li Bai Chocolate Mushussu Pacha Latte | Mumbo Jumbo Will Labubu | 137 | 0 |
| Alvin Guo | Please sir, may I have some morb? | "Real quiz bowl" only consists of the ACF academic pyramidal scene and the late 2010s NAQT scene. | 137 | 10 |
| Anderson Wang | One Microscopic Pog in His Chat-astrophic Plan | Thamos, King of Egypt: The Sahara of the Mozart | 137 | 10 |