One dragon breathes fire and another holds a spear on the cover of an album by this musician whose first track is subtitled “Gritty, funky, but in strict tempo.” Michael Tilson Thomas’s piece You Come Here Often? is paired with Teddy Abrams’s only concerto on this musician’s album The American Project. This musician replaced Martha Argerich in a 2007 Boston Symphony Orchestra concert series on three days’ notice. This Deutsche Grammophon artist premiered John Adams’s concerto (*) Must the Devil Have All the Good Tunes? In a performance that Yannick Nézet-Séguin (“yah-NEEK neh-ZAY say-GAHN”) compared to climbing Mount Everest, this pianist took five snappy bows in a marathon concert featuring four concertos and Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini. For 10 points, “Rachmaninoff 150” featured what Chinese pianist known for her sense of fashion? ■END■
| 2025 Chicago Open | 2025-08-09 | Y | 12 | 100% | 0% | 8% | 104.25 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ophir Lifshitz | I worship the Pyramid (abandoned Soviet coal mining settlement on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard) | Will They Ever Finish Bruckner’s Ninth Boulevard? | 78 | 10 |
| Justin Wytmar | 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. | 82 | 10 |
| Natan Holtzman | The RAND Coöperation | Halifax Shipping Services | 91 | 10 |
| Jeremy Cummings | It's not X, but... defenders | Mumbo Jumbo Will Labubu | 94 | 10 |
| Guy Indorante | Big is moving to Evanston! | 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 2k5, RNBQKBNR b Q - 99 66 | 100 | 10 |
| Sky Li | Woke Michael Du be like "I'm a genders player" | BHSU X | 100 | 10 |
| Joy An | "real numbers are uncountable" factoid actually just statistical error. diagonal georg | The True Dharma Eye of the Juan Soto School | 101 | 10 |
| Sinecio Morales | Enjoying the Hole Experience | The Met on Laserdisc. Bravo! | 109 | 10 |
| Jeremy Tsai | One Microscopic Pog in His Chat-astrophic Plan | Li Bai Chocolate Mushussu Pacha Latte | 112 | 10 |
| Matt Bollinger | BHSU B | Floridovician | 118 | -5 |
| Alvin Guo | Please sir, may I have some morb? | Do re mi fa serving negs | 125 | 10 |
| Tracy Mirkin | Floridovician | BHSU B | 129 | 10 |
| Henry Atkins | No, explaining that your buzz came from watching an isekai is not "Proustian" | Broken Socal Scene | 130 | 10 |