Five thousand knights led by Emperor Frederick II march into Hell via this location in a monk’s vision of a “hissing sea.” A bishop’s groom chases a runaway horse to a palace in this location and meets King Arthur, who reveals that the wounds he sustained at Camlann reopen every year. Morgan Le Fay’s fortress of Mongibel is within this location, whose eponymous nymph is the mother of the Palici. A bronze sandal revealed by this location proved that a (*) philosopher had failed to apotheosize. Achaemenides is marooned near Polyphemus’ cave at this location. An agitated Enceladus triggers tremors underneath this location, which Zeus had earlier dropped on a monstrous son of Tartarus. For 10 points, Typhon lies beneath what forge of Vulcan, from which he gushes forth “rivers of fire” to burn Sicily? ■END■
| 2025 Chicago Open | 2025-08-09 | Y | 12 | 100% | 0% | 8% | 101.92 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stephen Liu | Will They Ever Finish Bruckner’s Ninth Boulevard? | I worship the Pyramid (abandoned Soviet coal mining settlement on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard) | 56 | -5 |
| JinAh Kim | The True Dharma Eye of the Juan Soto School | "real numbers are uncountable" factoid actually just statistical error. diagonal georg | 84 | 10 |
| Charles Hang | It's not X, but... defenders | Mumbo Jumbo Will Labubu | 85 | 10 |
| Jerry Vinokurov | The Met on Laserdisc. Bravo! | Enjoying the Hole Experience | 90 | 10 |
| Auroni Gupta | BHSU X | Woke Michael Du be like "I'm a genders player" | 90 | 10 |
| Lou Leere | Big is moving to Evanston! | 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 2k5, RNBQKBNR b Q - 99 66 | 93 | 10 |
| Matt Bollinger | BHSU B | Floridovician | 93 | 10 |
| Mitch McCullar | Thamos, King of Egypt: The Sahara of the Mozart | "Real quiz bowl" only consists of the ACF academic pyramidal scene and the late 2010s NAQT scene. | 101 | 10 |
| Stephen Walsh | Do re mi fa serving negs | Please sir, may I have some morb? | 109 | 10 |
| Cooper Roh | Halifax Shipping Services | The RAND Coöperation | 110 | 10 |
| Shahar Schwartz | Li Bai Chocolate Mushussu Pacha Latte | One Microscopic Pog in His Chat-astrophic Plan | 115 | 10 |
| Henry Atkins | No, explaining that your buzz came from watching an isekai is not "Proustian" | Broken Socal Scene | 119 | 10 |
| Jordan Brownstein | I worship the Pyramid (abandoned Soviet coal mining settlement on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard) | Will They Ever Finish Bruckner’s Ninth Boulevard? | 134 | 10 |