In a novel titled for this city, a detective spends years following a girl who was abducted by her father and lived with the waitress Clara in the town of Stillspell. Eli leaves New York and meets the club dancer Michaela in this city while searching for his missing girlfriend Lilia Albert. A character from this city partners with the alcoholic John Friar to produce avant-garde films, which fails after Friar tries to seduce his girlfriend (*) Yvette. A protagonist from this city obsesses over his grandfather’s saying “A man without land is nothing” and the rags-to-riches story of the “Boy Wonder,” fueling his quest to build a lake resort. Emily St. John Mandel titled her first novel Last Night in this city, which provides the setting of The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz. For 10 points, name this Canadian home city of Mordecai Richler. ■END■
| 2025 Chicago Open | 2025-08-09 | Y | 12 | 83% | 0% | 25% | 132.20 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jordan Brownstein | I worship the Pyramid (abandoned Soviet coal mining settlement on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard) | Woke Michael Du be like "I'm a genders player" | 85 | -5 |
| Henry Atkins | No, explaining that your buzz came from watching an isekai is not "Proustian" | Enjoying the Hole Experience | 95 | 10 |
| John Lawrence | Will They Ever Finish Bruckner’s Ninth Boulevard? | Floridovician | 108 | -5 |
| Auroni Gupta | BHSU X | BHSU B | 131 | 10 |
| Mitch McCullar | Thamos, King of Egypt: The Sahara of the Mozart | Broken Socal Scene | 131 | 10 |
| Joel Miles | "real numbers are uncountable" factoid actually just statistical error. diagonal georg | Do re mi fa serving negs | 131 | 10 |
| Anuttam Ramji | Li Bai Chocolate Mushussu Pacha Latte | It's not X, but... defenders | 133 | -5 |
| William Golden | Mumbo Jumbo Will Labubu | Halifax Shipping Services | 134 | 10 |
| Natan Holtzman | The RAND Coöperation | One Microscopic Pog in His Chat-astrophic Plan | 134 | 10 |
| Jerry Vinokurov | The Met on Laserdisc. Bravo! | "Real quiz bowl" only consists of the ACF academic pyramidal scene and the late 2010s NAQT scene. | 138 | 10 |
| Mattias Ehatamm | Woke Michael Du be like "I'm a genders player" | I worship the Pyramid (abandoned Soviet coal mining settlement on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard) | 142 | 10 |
| Charles Hang | It's not X, but... defenders | Li Bai Chocolate Mushussu Pacha Latte | 143 | 0 |
| Alvin Guo | Please sir, may I have some morb? | Big is moving to Evanston! | 143 | 0 |
| Lou Leere | Big is moving to Evanston! | Please sir, may I have some morb? | 143 | 0 |
| Isaac Kirk-Davidoff | The True Dharma Eye of the Juan Soto School | 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 2k5, RNBQKBNR b Q - 99 66 | 143 | 10 |
| Eric Bobrow | 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 2k5, RNBQKBNR b Q - 99 66 | The True Dharma Eye of the Juan Soto School | 143 | 0 |
| Tracy Mirkin | Floridovician | Will They Ever Finish Bruckner’s Ninth Boulevard? | 143 | 10 |