When this character realizes a creature’s eyes have no salt in them, she recalls the “saltlessness” of her aborted pregnancy. An author’s note “to possible readers” explains that this character “gave bit by bit a difficult joy, but it is called joy.” This character contemplates the news headline “Lost in the Fiery Hell of a Canyon a Woman Desperately Struggles for Life.” This character often references her name printed on “the leather of her suitcases” and has a “visual meditation” of being in the (*) desert. While cleaning a “minaret”-like room, this sculptor sees a charcoal drawing on the wall of a nude man, woman, and dog, left behind by her maid Janair. A novel climaxes with this character’s spiritual breakdown as she eats a cockroach. For 10 points, a Clarice Lispector novel is titled for The Passion According to what character? ■END■
| 2025 Chicago Open | 2025-08-09 | Y | 11 | 100% | 9% | 9% | 105.91 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jordan Brownstein | I worship the Pyramid (abandoned Soviet coal mining settlement on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard) | "Real quiz bowl" only consists of the ACF academic pyramidal scene and the late 2010s NAQT scene. | 52 | 15 |
| Lou Leere | Big is moving to Evanston! | Woke Michael Du be like "I'm a genders player" | 84 | 10 |
| John Lawrence | Will They Ever Finish Bruckner’s Ninth Boulevard? | Halifax Shipping Services | 91 | 10 |
| James Orefice | Enjoying the Hole Experience | Li Bai Chocolate Mushussu Pacha Latte | 95 | 10 |
| Mitch McCullar | Thamos, King of Egypt: The Sahara of the Mozart | It's not X, but... defenders | 95 | 10 |
| JinAh Kim | The True Dharma Eye of the Juan Soto School | The Met on Laserdisc. Bravo! | 114 | 10 |
| Rahul Keyal | The RAND Coöperation | Mumbo Jumbo Will Labubu | 117 | 10 |
| Seth Ebner | 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 2k5, RNBQKBNR b Q - 99 66 | Broken Socal Scene | 124 | 10 |
| Jeremy Tsai | One Microscopic Pog in His Chat-astrophic Plan | No, explaining that your buzz came from watching an isekai is not "Proustian" | 124 | 10 |
| Andrew Wang | BHSU X | Please sir, may I have some morb? | 124 | -5 |
| Eric Mukherjee | Floridovician | "real numbers are uncountable" factoid actually just statistical error. diagonal georg | 128 | 10 |
| Alvin Guo | Please sir, may I have some morb? | BHSU X | 141 | 10 |