Original or English-language term acceptable. These objects are described as “prisoners, pushed back, in trapped coils” to open a novel whose title character, named for these objects, obsesses over visions of a black house encircled by yellow daisies. In another novel, these objects fail to arrive one September as usual, causing a crisis during which Rankoane shows Dinorego a dead buck. A chief-elect named for these objects rivals Moleka for the love of the half-Masarwa teacher (*) Margaret Cadmore in a novel titled for these objects. While living in a house named for these objects in Serowe, a biracial expatriate wrote novels like A Question of Power. In a novel titled for these objects, Gilbert Balfour’s goal to modernize agriculture is stymied by the greedy chief Matenge. For 10 points, Makhaya Maseko moves to Golema Mmidi in a Bessie Head novel titled for When [what objects] Gather? ■END■
| 2025 Chicago Open | 2025-08-09 | Y | 12 | 92% | 0% | 25% | 136.82 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tracy Mirkin | Floridovician | Will They Ever Finish Bruckner’s Ninth Boulevard? | 89 | 10 |
| JinAh Kim | The True Dharma Eye of the Juan Soto School | 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 2k5, RNBQKBNR b Q - 99 66 | 128 | -5 |
| 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" | 128 | 10 |
| Matt Bollinger | BHSU B | BHSU X | 132 | -5 |
| Jerry Vinokurov | The Met on Laserdisc. Bravo! | "Real quiz bowl" only consists of the ACF academic pyramidal scene and the late 2010s NAQT scene. | 139 | 10 |
| Henry Atkins | No, explaining that your buzz came from watching an isekai is not "Proustian" | Enjoying the Hole Experience | 140 | 10 |
| Nathaniel Hull | Li Bai Chocolate Mushussu Pacha Latte | It's not X, but... defenders | 141 | 10 |
| Mitch McCullar | Thamos, King of Egypt: The Sahara of the Mozart | Broken Socal Scene | 142 | 10 |
| Rahul Keyal | The RAND Coöperation | One Microscopic Pog in His Chat-astrophic Plan | 142 | 10 |
| Alvin Guo | Please sir, may I have some morb? | Big is moving to Evanston! | 142 | -5 |
| Andrew Wang | BHSU X | BHSU B | 146 | 10 |
| Joel Miles | "real numbers are uncountable" factoid actually just statistical error. diagonal georg | Do re mi fa serving negs | 146 | 10 |
| Cooper Roh | Halifax Shipping Services | Mumbo Jumbo Will Labubu | 146 | 10 |
| Halle Friedman | Big is moving to Evanston! | Please sir, may I have some morb? | 146 | 10 |