At several dinners, this novel’s protagonist sees a thin woman surreptitiously feeding her meals to her dog Kiki. This novel’s protagonist laughs in surprise when an electronics magnate calls her by her alias of Vanessa Wilde, which honors her self-described lookalike, Virginia Woolf. This novel’s final word is “returning,” which its protagonist sends as a telegram to her lover after seeing a man emerge from the bedroom of Iris Pusey’s pampered daughter. This novel upset J. G. Ballard’s Empire of the Sun to win the (*) 1984 Booker Prize. In this novel, Philip Neville proposes an open marriage to the protagonist, a romance writer whose friends convince her to vacation in Switzerland after her failed engagement. For 10 points, name this novel in which Edith Hope stays at the title location near Lake Geneva, written by Anita Brookner. ■END■
| 2025 Chicago Open | 2025-08-09 | Y | 10 | 80% | 20% | 10% | 100.75 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tracy Mirkin | Floridovician | I worship the Pyramid (abandoned Soviet coal mining settlement on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard) | 48 | 15 |
| Stephen Liu | Will They Ever Finish Bruckner’s Ninth Boulevard? | No, explaining that your buzz came from watching an isekai is not "Proustian" | 62 | 15 |
| Rob Carson | BHSU X | 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 2k5, RNBQKBNR b Q - 99 66 | 90 | 10 |
| Adrian Wong | Woke Michael Du be like "I'm a genders player" | It's not X, but... defenders | 108 | -5 |
| Tim Morrison | BHSU B | Big is moving to Evanston! | 109 | 10 |
| James Orefice | Enjoying the Hole Experience | Broken Socal Scene | 111 | 10 |
| JinAh Kim | The True Dharma Eye of the Juan Soto School | One Microscopic Pog in His Chat-astrophic Plan | 113 | 10 |
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| Andrew Ullsperger | The Met on Laserdisc. Bravo! | Thamos, King of Egypt: The Sahara of the Mozart | 137 | 10 |
| Charles Hang | It's not X, but... defenders | Woke Michael Du be like "I'm a genders player" | 137 | 0 |