Question

This play’s author claimed that it “can be fully realised only through an evocation of music from the abyss of transition” in a prefatory note. This play’s author wrote it after repeatedly feeling an urge to push over a bust on a staircase while a fellow at Churchill College, Cambridge. In this play, a brass band incompetently plays “Rule, Britannia” at an event where 17th-century dress is worn by the Resident. A Muslim (*) sergeant in this play refuses to talk about a so-called “eater of leftovers” to a man whose costume (-5[1])includes a sacred mask. After the body of a medical student is brought onto the stage in this play, a man uses his chains to strangle himself despite the protestations (10[1])of (10[1])the District Officer Simon Pilkings. Olunde and Elesin both commit suicide (10[1])in, for 10 points, what play by Wole Soyinka? ■END■

ANSWER: Death and the King’s Horseman
= Average correct buzz position

Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Urbas EkkaJeff Weiner Fan Clubdoubleplusnegfive90-5
Andrew HartBHSUOur Job is Buzz12010
Danny VopavaWeird Klaus BarbiePalestrina Sawayama12110
Chinmay KansaradoubleplusnegfiveJeff Weiner Fan Club13210

Summary

2023 UMN COOT08/19/2023Y3100%0%33%124.33