This word is paired with “suede” in the title of a 2014 exhibit on an artist’s relation to the designer Halston. Nat Finkelstein photographed an artist installing an artwork titled for this adjective at the Leo Castelli gallery. A haircutting party hosted by Billy Name led to him to decorate a loft with materials described by this word. Merce Cunningham’s dance piece RainForest incorporated an installation titled for this adjective featuring mylar balloons resembling (*) “clouds.” The Ferus Gallery hosted a portrait of Liz Taylor as Cleopatra partly titled for this six-letter word. The highest-selling entry in the Death and Disaster series depicts the “Double Disaster” of a car crash described by this word. For 10 points, what word that sometimes named Andy Warhol’s “Factory” precedes “screen” in a metonym for the film industry? ■END■
| 2025 Chicago Open | 2025-08-09 | Y | 11 | 91% | 27% | 27% | 98.10 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lou Leere | Big is moving to Evanston! | BHSU B | 47 | 15 |
| Stephen Liu | Will They Ever Finish Bruckner’s Ninth Boulevard? | No, explaining that your buzz came from watching an isekai is not "Proustian" | 69 | 15 |
| Kenji Shimizu | One Microscopic Pog in His Chat-astrophic Plan | The True Dharma Eye of the Juan Soto School | 73 | 15 |
| Seth Ebner | 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 2k5, RNBQKBNR b Q - 99 66 | BHSU X | 74 | -5 |
| Joel Miles | "real numbers are uncountable" factoid actually just statistical error. diagonal georg | Please sir, may I have some morb? | 87 | 10 |
| William Golden | Mumbo Jumbo Will Labubu | "Real quiz bowl" only consists of the ACF academic pyramidal scene and the late 2010s NAQT scene. | 103 | 10 |
| Justin Wytmar | Thamos, King of Egypt: The Sahara of the Mozart | The Met on Laserdisc. Bravo! | 107 | 10 |
| Rachel Ezrielev | Enjoying the Hole Experience | Broken Socal Scene | 112 | 10 |
| Jordan Brownstein | I worship the Pyramid (abandoned Soviet coal mining settlement on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard) | Floridovician | 123 | -5 |
| Charles Young | Halifax Shipping Services | Do re mi fa serving negs | 123 | 10 |
| Adrian Wong | Woke Michael Du be like "I'm a genders player" | It's not X, but... defenders | 123 | -5 |
| Auroni Gupta | BHSU X | 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 2k5, RNBQKBNR b Q - 99 66 | 128 | 10 |
| Tracy Mirkin | Floridovician | I worship the Pyramid (abandoned Soviet coal mining settlement on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard) | 132 | 10 |
| June Yin | It's not X, but... defenders | Woke Michael Du be like "I'm a genders player" | 133 | 0 |