Question

He’s not a king, but this character is the most common protagonist of shows performed with elaborate two- to five-foot-tall puppets in Sicilian opera dei pupi. This character titles a work in which the Indian warrior queen Marfisa swears not to remove her armor before defeating three kings in battle. A woman frees a castle full of knights from the wizard Atlantes in a work titled for this non-Tolkien character, whose love interest escapes the Orc and has a ring of invisibility. In a poem titled for this character, (-5[1])the Saracen knight (10[1])Ruggiero (10[2])(“roo-JAIR-oh”) is often (10[1])rescued (10[4])by (10[1])a female (10[1])knight (10[2])with a magic lance, (10[1])Bradamante. (10[1])This knight’s wits are found (10[1])on the moon (10[4])after his love (10[1])for (10[1])Angelica (10[1])causes (10[1])him to (10[1])go insane. (10[1])For 10 points, name this paladin of Charlemagne who titles (10[1])a set (10[1])of epic poems (10[1])by Matteo (10[2])Boiardo and Ludovico Ariosto. ■END■ (10[3]0[2])

ANSWER: Orlando [or Roland; accept Orlando Furioso or Orlando Innamorato; reject “Rinaldo”]
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Biyang Zhang (DII)Michigan BOhio State B88-5
Halle FriedmanNYU AColumbia B9110
Connor Mayers (UG)Maryland A (Grad)GWU A (UG)9210
Andre WongColumbia CNYU B9210
Sinecio Morales (DII)Johns HopkinsHaverford9410
Natan HoltzmanStanford BBerkeley B9510
Raymond WangCornell ARIT A9510
Ivvone Zhou (UG)UNC B (UG)UNC D (DII)9510
Jack LewisMTSUTennessee9510
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Andrew HannaPennVassar9810
Jisoon YooTexas AIowa B9910
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Andrew KelleyKentuckyVanderbilt B10410
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Ivan Stanisavljevic (DII)Duke A (UG)Maryland C (DII)11210
Amogh KulkarniGeodesicAlabama11210
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Sophie EttingerBinghamtonCornell B12010
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