Annemarie Roelofs played trombone and this instrument with the Feminist Improvising Group. Sugarcane Harris played a repetitive riff on this instrument under Captain Beefheart’s vocals throughout Frank Zappa’s “Willie the Pimp.” This instrument provides the primary melody on the fusion albums Cosmic Messenger and Enigmatic Ocean by its player (*) Jean-Luc Ponty. Jerry Goodman played high-tempo melodic parts for this instrument against John McLaughlin’s electric guitar on The Inner Mounting Flame by Mahavishnu Orchestra. L. Shankar invented a “stereophonic” version of this instrument while playing with the East-West fusion band Shakti. With Django Reinhardt, a player of this instrument co-founded Quintette du Hot Club de France. For 10 points, name this instrument played by Stéphane Grappelli, the highest in a big band string section. ■END■
| 2025 Chicago Open | 2025-08-09 | Y | 12 | 100% | 17% | 17% | 82.75 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kai Smith | Will They Ever Finish Bruckner’s Ninth Boulevard? | The Met on Laserdisc. Bravo! | 44 | 15 |
| Benjamin Chapman | Woke Michael Du be like "I'm a genders player" | BHSU B | 44 | 15 |
| Iain Carpenter | Thamos, King of Egypt: The Sahara of the Mozart | One Microscopic Pog in His Chat-astrophic Plan | 50 | 10 |
| Ani Perumalla | The RAND Coöperation | BHSU X | 50 | 10 |
| William Golden | Mumbo Jumbo Will Labubu | Li Bai Chocolate Mushussu Pacha Latte | 53 | -5 |
| Tracy Mirkin | Floridovician | 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 2k5, RNBQKBNR b Q - 99 66 | 71 | 10 |
| Aseem Keyal | Broken Socal Scene | I worship the Pyramid (abandoned Soviet coal mining settlement on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard) | 74 | 10 |
| Joel Miles | "real numbers are uncountable" factoid actually just statistical error. diagonal georg | Enjoying the Hole Experience | 94 | 10 |
| Charles Young | Halifax Shipping Services | It's not X, but... defenders | 97 | -5 |
| Emmett Laurie | The True Dharma Eye of the Juan Soto School | Do re mi fa serving negs | 98 | 10 |
| John Marvin | "Real quiz bowl" only consists of the ACF academic pyramidal scene and the late 2010s NAQT scene. | Please sir, may I have some morb? | 99 | 10 |
| Guy Indorante | Big is moving to Evanston! | No, explaining that your buzz came from watching an isekai is not "Proustian" | 123 | 10 |
| Henry Atkins | No, explaining that your buzz came from watching an isekai is not "Proustian" | Big is moving to Evanston! | 123 | 0 |
| Charles Hang | It's not X, but... defenders | Halifax Shipping Services | 123 | 10 |
| Swapnil Garg | Li Bai Chocolate Mushussu Pacha Latte | Mumbo Jumbo Will Labubu | 123 | 10 |