A boy named for this animal becomes an alcoholic after refusing to be hazed alongside his friend Chal in the novel Sundown by John Joseph Mathews. A husband named “Star” this animal attempts to disown his wife Blue Bird in Waterlily by Ella Deloria. A Penobscot dancer and storyteller whose stage name featured this animal published the collection Katahdin and had the birth name Molly Nelson. A narrator named for this animal reflects on a “people’s dream that died in bloody snow” after admitting to being too weak to handle a “mighty vision.” A 1932 (*) autobiography by a man named after one of these animals describes his time in Buffalo Bill’s Wild West shows and his witness of the Wounded Knee massacre. For 10 points, John Neihardt transcribed stories told by a Lakota medicine man named for a “black” one of what animal? ■END■
| 2025 Chicago Open | 2025-08-09 | Y | 12 | 75% | 8% | 58% | 123.78 |
| 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" | 92 | 15 |
| Matt Bollinger | BHSU B | BHSU X | 104 | 10 |
| Mitch McCullar | Thamos, King of Egypt: The Sahara of the Mozart | Broken Socal Scene | 105 | -5 |
| Tracy Mirkin | Floridovician | Will They Ever Finish Bruckner’s Ninth Boulevard? | 107 | -5 |
| Matt Lafer | The Met on Laserdisc. Bravo! | "Real quiz bowl" only consists of the ACF academic pyramidal scene and the late 2010s NAQT scene. | 109 | 10 |
| Jeremy Tsai | One Microscopic Pog in His Chat-astrophic Plan | The RAND Coöperation | 113 | -5 |
| Lou Leere | Big is moving to Evanston! | Please sir, may I have some morb? | 113 | 10 |
| JinAh Kim | The True Dharma Eye of the Juan Soto School | 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 2k5, RNBQKBNR b Q - 99 66 | 113 | -5 |
| Nathaniel Hull | Li Bai Chocolate Mushussu Pacha Latte | It's not X, but... defenders | 114 | -5 |
| Cooper Roh | Halifax Shipping Services | Mumbo Jumbo Will Labubu | 119 | -5 |
| Sinecio Morales | Enjoying the Hole Experience | No, explaining that your buzz came from watching an isekai is not "Proustian" | 121 | -5 |
| Joel Miles | "real numbers are uncountable" factoid actually just statistical error. diagonal georg | Do re mi fa serving negs | 128 | 10 |
| Rahul Keyal | The RAND Coöperation | One Microscopic Pog in His Chat-astrophic Plan | 139 | 10 |
| Aseem Keyal | Broken Socal Scene | Thamos, King of Egypt: The Sahara of the Mozart | 143 | 10 |
| Patrick Torre | No, explaining that your buzz came from watching an isekai is not "Proustian" | Enjoying the Hole Experience | 143 | 0 |
| Charles Hang | It's not X, but... defenders | Li Bai Chocolate Mushussu Pacha Latte | 143 | 0 |
| Jaskaran Singh | Mumbo Jumbo Will Labubu | Halifax Shipping Services | 143 | 10 |
| Seth Ebner | 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 2k5, RNBQKBNR b Q - 99 66 | The True Dharma Eye of the Juan Soto School | 143 | 0 |
| Stephen Liu | Will They Ever Finish Bruckner’s Ninth Boulevard? | Floridovician | 143 | 10 |