Question

This is the first word in the title of a play in which the unseen dog George bites a guest’s leg, after Jane cleans an oven, unaware that Eva has just tried to asphyxiate herself in it. (15[1])This word begins the title of a play that ends with a humiliating game of “Musical Forfeits” that two couples participate in at the behest of the social-climbing Sidney on the last of three successive Christmas Eves. Arthur Adamov is one of the four main authors analysed in a 1960 essay (15[1])partly titled for this adjective by (*) Martin Esslin. In the title of a 1972 play by Alan Ayckbourn, (-5[1])this adjective precedes the words “Person Singular.” Eugene Ionesco’s The Bald Soprano and Samuel Beckett’s Waiting For Godot both exemplify a genre called the “Theatre of,” for 10 points, what adjective that describes incongruous actions that lack (10[1])meaning? ■END■

ANSWER: absurd [accept absurdism or absurdist; accept Theatre of the Absurd; accept Absurd Person Singular] (The first unnamed play is Absurd Person Singular.)
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Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Ethan AshbrookJeff Weiner Fan ClubOur Job is Buzz3615
Rob CarsonBHSUWeird Klaus Barbie8715
Chinmay KansaradoubleplusnegfivePalestrina Sawayama105-5
Guy IndorantePalestrina Sawayamadoubleplusnegfive14210

Summary

2023 UMN COOT08/19/2023Y3100%67%33%88.33