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Question

While chained and wearing animal skins, this character delivers a soliloquy lamenting that the greatest sin of humans is “having been born.” For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this character. In a play whose themes are often compared to Cartesian skepticism, this character is locked in a tower after a horoscope at his birth indicates that he will grow up to be a tyrant.

ANSWER: Segismundo [or Prince Sigismund] (from Pedro Calderon de la Barca’s Life is a Dream)

[10h] In the novel Mist, Augusto decides on the maxim “I eat, therefore I am” after a depressing meeting with this character. Augusto goes to meet this character after reading his article on suicide.

ANSWER: Miguel de Unamuno [prompt on the author]

[10e] Steven Nadler suggests that Descartes may have read Don Quixote, whose protagonist’s delusions include bestowing this name on his love interest, the simple peasant girl Aldonza Lorenzo.

ANSWER: Dulcinea del Toboso

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Summary


2023 BHSU @ Berkeley	03/18/2023	Y	2	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2023 BHSU @ Maryland	03/11/2023	Y	3	13.33	100%	0%	33%
2023 BHSU @ Northwestern	02/25/2023	Y	6	25.00	100%	83%	67%
2023 BHSU Online	04/15/2023	Y	4	20.00	100%	50%	50%
2023 BHSU @ Sheffield	04/15/2023	Y	2	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2023 BHSU @ Waterloo	04/15/2023	Y	2	10.00	50%	50%	0%
2023 BHSU @ Yale	04/08/2023	Y	3	13.33	0%	33%	100%
2023 BHSU @ Yale	04/08/2023	Y	3	23.33	100%	67%	67%

Data


Stanford A	Berkeley B	10	0	10	20
It's Joever	[Insert Lawyer Joke Here]	10	0	10	20
Rutgers Diaspora	Glass Onyen: A Knives Out Mystery	0	0	10	10
Maryland B+	Maryland A	0	10	10	20
The Perfection of Wisdom in 8,000 Negs	Fan-tastic Negs and Where to Find Them	0	0	10	10
Brownstein et al.	Northwestern	10	10	10	30
Chicago A	Illinois	10	10	10	30
Epic	Purdue	0	0	10	10
Amartya Senpai Notice Me	Michigan	10	10	10	30
OSU	Chicago B+	10	0	10	20
Mojo Shojo	WUSTL	10	10	10	30
Cornell B-	Dr. Christopher Manners, MD - Samarra, Iraq	0	0	10	10
Cornell C++	Rollin in from Sturgis, The Cheyne Gang	0	10	10	20
The Enrique Trastamara Military Academy B	Houston and friends	10	10	10	30
Hutto Hippos	What is BH! And you are asking me? BHSU	10	0	10	20
Oxford Hornets	Broken Imperial Nomads	10	0	10	20
Buzzers Karamazov	Magisters Ludi	10	0	10	20
Cameron et al.	Milan et al.	0	0	0	0
Neg 5! Playing Quizbowl, Liddy Style	The Passion According to C.H.	10	0	10	20
nats is supposed to mean you all have gone soft	Watching Arthur Delot-Vilain at Chicago Open Made Me Like French People Again	10	10	0	20
nats is supposed to mean you all have gone soft	Watching Arthur Delot-Vilain at Chicago Open Made Me Like French People Again	10	10	10	30
nats is supposed to mean you all have gone soft	meet the new weird, same as the old weird	0	10	0	10
nats is supposed to mean you all have gone soft	meet the new weird, same as the old weird	0	10	10	20
Olmo (Bonus) Bagelry	Columbia B	0	10	0	10
Olmo (Bonus) Bagelry	Columbia B	0	10	10	20
Olmo (Bonus) Bagelry	UG Championship Players (and Mazin)	0	10	0	10
Olmo (Bonus) Bagelry	UG Championship Players (and Mazin)	0	10	10	20
Columbia B	Watching Arthur Delot-Vilain at Chicago Open Made Me Like French People Again	10	10	0	20
Olmo (Bonus) Bagelry	Columbia B	0	0	0	0
Olmo (Bonus) Bagelry	Columbia B	0	0	10	10
Olmo (Bonus) Bagelry	UG Championship Players (and Mazin)	0	0	0	0
Olmo (Bonus) Bagelry	UG Championship Players (and Mazin)	0	0	10	10
UG Championship Players (and Mazin)	meet the new weird, same as the old weird	10	10	10	30
nats is supposed to mean you all have gone soft	Watching Arthur Delot-Vilain at Chicago Open Made Me Like French People Again	10	10	0	20
nats is supposed to mean you all have gone soft	Watching Arthur Delot-Vilain at Chicago Open Made Me Like French People Again	10	10	10	30
nats is supposed to mean you all have gone soft	meet the new weird, same as the old weird	0	10	0	10
nats is supposed to mean you all have gone soft	meet the new weird, same as the old weird	0	10	10	20