During this event, characters repeatedly mock a cook named Tit with the variously-translated punning taunts “don’t bite us!” or “thresh a bit!” One character thinks he would “die of happiness” if addressed by a similar-aged leader before this event, who he later encounters alone in a field with sunken cheeks and hollow eyes. After holding a wavering standard during this event, one character collapses to only see the “lofty sky.” Despite his doubts over the disposition planned by (*) Weyrother, an aide-de-camp convinces himself that this event will be his “bridge of Arcola.” A historical character who wears a blue greatcoat and rides an Arabian horse signals the start of this event once fog clears from the Pratzen Heights. For 10 points, Andrei Bolkonsky has a near-death experience during what battle, which closes Book I of War and Peace? ■END■
| 2025 Chicago Open | 2025-08-09 | Y | 11 | 73% | 9% | 64% | 121.00 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sinecio Morales | Enjoying the Hole Experience | Please sir, may I have some morb? | 38 | -5 |
| Andrew Hart | BHSU X | Broken Socal Scene | 60 | -5 |
| Henry Atkins | No, explaining that your buzz came from watching an isekai is not "Proustian" | Halifax Shipping Services | 60 | -5 |
| Tim Morrison | BHSU B | The True Dharma Eye of the Juan Soto School | 62 | 15 |
| Jordan Brownstein | I worship the Pyramid (abandoned Soviet coal mining settlement on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard) | Mumbo Jumbo Will Labubu | 73 | -5 |
| Mitch McCullar | Thamos, King of Egypt: The Sahara of the Mozart | Do re mi fa serving negs | 93 | -5 |
| Will Alston | Will They Ever Finish Bruckner’s Ninth Boulevard? | Big is moving to Evanston! | 116 | 10 |
| Charles Hang | It's not X, but... defenders | One Microscopic Pog in His Chat-astrophic Plan | 117 | 10 |
| Eric Mukherjee | Floridovician | The RAND Coöperation | 117 | -5 |
| Doug Simons | "Real quiz bowl" only consists of the ACF academic pyramidal scene and the late 2010s NAQT scene. | 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 2k5, RNBQKBNR b Q - 99 66 | 122 | 10 |
| Azura Gollamudi | Do re mi fa serving negs | Thamos, King of Egypt: The Sahara of the Mozart | 128 | 0 |
| Conor Thompson | "real numbers are uncountable" factoid actually just statistical error. diagonal georg | Li Bai Chocolate Mushussu Pacha Latte | 128 | -5 |
| Dylan Minarik | The RAND Coöperation | Floridovician | 137 | 10 |
| Corry Wang | Broken Socal Scene | BHSU X | 138 | 10 |
| Alvin Guo | Please sir, may I have some morb? | Enjoying the Hole Experience | 138 | 10 |
| Cooper Roh | Halifax Shipping Services | No, explaining that your buzz came from watching an isekai is not "Proustian" | 138 | 10 |
| William Golden | Mumbo Jumbo Will Labubu | I worship the Pyramid (abandoned Soviet coal mining settlement on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard) | 138 | 0 |
| Nathaniel Hull | Li Bai Chocolate Mushussu Pacha Latte | "real numbers are uncountable" factoid actually just statistical error. diagonal georg | 138 | 0 |