Question
A dying professor created by this author never shares with his adopted actress daughter that he thinks live theater is superfluous since “if the play is poor, no acting will make it good.” The title for George Saunders’ book A Swim in the Pond in the Rain derives from a story by this author in which a surgeon becomes depressed by seeing his fat younger brother living on a farm. Two lovers realize “the hardest, the most complicated part was only just beginning” at the end of a story by this author about a man who refers to (*) women as “the lower race.” In a story by this author, a chance re-encounter at a performance of The Geisha leads Dmitri Gurov to declare his love for a woman he had met in Yalta with her pet dog. For 10 points, name this Russian author of the play The Cherry Orchard. ■END■
Summary
2023 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley | Premiere | Y | 2 | 100% | 100% | 0% | 45.50 |
2023 ARCADIA at Carleton University | Premiere | Y | 3 | 100% | 33% | 33% | 126.67 |
2023 ARCADIA at Claremont Colleges | Premiere | Y | 1 | 100% | 0% | 100% | 150.00 |
2023 ARCADIA at Indiana | Premiere | Y | 5 | 100% | 20% | 60% | 131.40 |
2023 ARCADIA at RIT | Premiere | Y | 2 | 100% | 100% | 0% | 62.50 |
2023 ARCADIA at WUSTL | Premiere | Y | 3 | 100% | 67% | 0% | 94.67 |
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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Anuttam Ramji | Berkeley B | Stanford A | 45 | 15 |
Kevin Ye | Berkeley C | Berkeley A | 46 | 15 |
Nathan Zhang | Cornell MATLAB | RIT | 47 | 15 |
Michael Hunding | Illinois A | Vanderbilt | 53 | -5 |
Jason Cheng | I will play anything with a buzzer in front of me | Auxiliary Lofthouse Cookie University | 56 | -5 |
Braden Booth | Missouri A | WUSTL XYZ | 71 | 15 |
Gabe Forrest | Squidward Community College | WUSTL H2O | 77 | 15 |
Stan Melkumian | Purdue A | Purdue B | 78 | 15 |
Raymond Wang | Cornell R | Syracuse+Rochester | 78 | 15 |
Raymond Chen | A Ray of Sun in the Sky | Waterloo | 80 | 15 |
Ishan Joshi | Ottawa B | Ottawa A | 82 | -5 |
Yash Mandavia | Illinois B | Chicago B | 82 | -5 |
Robert Condron | Chicago A | Notre Dame A | 85 | -5 |
Gavin Markoff | Vanderbilt | Illinois A | 132 | 10 |
Logan Mathis | SIUE | Missouri B | 136 | 10 |
Maya Kvaratskhelia | Notre Dame A | Chicago A | 149 | 10 |
Nermeen Rahman | Chicago B | Illinois B | 149 | 10 |
Tanuj Chandekar | Indiana | Notre Dame B | 149 | 10 |
Maude-Sophie Lockman | Ottawa A | Ottawa B | 150 | 10 |
Ian Chow | McDouble West-Carleton | Ottawa C | 150 | 10 |
Kethan Raman | Auxiliary Lofthouse Cookie University | I will play anything with a buzzer in front of me | 150 | 10 |