The protagonist of this short story worries her mother by crying during a phone call about gold bath taps. While browsing a library, the narrator of this story is shocked by an obscene image of a girl being beaten in a book about a Turkish harem. This story’s protagonist finds a postcard of a graveyard from a Romanian countess named Carmilla. The narrator of this short story watches Tristan und Isolde while wearing a white muslin dress given to her as a wedding gift. After she loses her (*) virginity in a bedroom filled with lilies and a dozen mirrors, the protagonist of this story befriends a blind piano-tuner named Jean-Yves. The protagonist of this story is nearly beheaded by her husband in a castle courtyard, but is saved by her mother. For 10 points, name this Bluebeard retelling that titles a short story collection by Angela Carter. ■END■
| 2025 Chicago Open | 2025-08-09 | Y | 12 | 100% | 17% | 8% | 109.83 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| John Lawrence | Will They Ever Finish Bruckner’s Ninth Boulevard? | The Met on Laserdisc. Bravo! | 45 | 15 |
| Mitch McCullar | Thamos, King of Egypt: The Sahara of the Mozart | One Microscopic Pog in His Chat-astrophic Plan | 60 | -5 |
| Rahul Keyal | The RAND Coöperation | BHSU X | 76 | 15 |
| Henry Atkins | No, explaining that your buzz came from watching an isekai is not "Proustian" | Big is moving to Evanston! | 93 | 10 |
| JinAh Kim | The True Dharma Eye of the Juan Soto School | Do re mi fa serving negs | 98 | 10 |
| Tracy Mirkin | Floridovician | 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 2k5, RNBQKBNR b Q - 99 66 | 100 | 10 |
| William Golden | Mumbo Jumbo Will Labubu | Li Bai Chocolate Mushussu Pacha Latte | 102 | 10 |
| Matt Bollinger | BHSU B | Woke Michael Du be like "I'm a genders player" | 109 | 10 |
| Joel Miles | "real numbers are uncountable" factoid actually just statistical error. diagonal georg | Enjoying the Hole Experience | 124 | 10 |
| Jordan Brownstein | I worship the Pyramid (abandoned Soviet coal mining settlement on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard) | Broken Socal Scene | 130 | 10 |
| Omkar Marathe | Halifax Shipping Services | It's not X, but... defenders | 147 | 10 |
| 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. | 147 | 10 |
| Anderson Wang | One Microscopic Pog in His Chat-astrophic Plan | Thamos, King of Egypt: The Sahara of the Mozart | 147 | 10 |