Death and the Maiden - 2024 ARGOS

Question

In this play, a character uses the name “Stud” instead of “Bud,” allegedly proving that a supposed false confession was actually real. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this play. A doctor in this play who helps fix a flat tire is later tortured by Paulina, who accuses him of raping her while she was a political prisoner.

ANSWER: Death and the Maiden [or La muerte y la doncella]

[10e] The author of Death and the Maiden, Ariel Dorfman, criticized the forced confessions under a fascist regime in this country. The novel Distant Star, by native author Roberto Bolaño, is set during a 1973 coup in this country.

ANSWER: Republic of Chile

[10h] The Usher and the Functionary coerce the Young Man into falsely confessing that he was invited to a prison in this author’s play The Walls. The audience walks through various rooms in a house to watch a play by this author inspired by abuses of power during the Dirty War.

ANSWER: Griselda Gambaro (The play is Information for Foreigners.)

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2024 ARGOS @ Chicago	11/23/2024	Y	6	18.33	100%	50%	33%
2024 ARGOS @ Christ's College	12/14/2024	Y	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%
2024 ARGOS @ Columbia	11/23/2024	Y	4	47.50	250%	225%	0%
2024 ARGOS @ McMaster	11/17/2024	Y	5	18.00	100%	60%	20%
2024 ARGOS @ Stanford	02/22/2025	Y	3	20.00	100%	67%	33%
2024 ARGOS @ Brandeis	03/22/2025	N	3	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 ARGOS Online	03/22/2025	N	3	20.00	100%	100%	0%

Data


BHSU Rebirth	Clown Senpais	10	10	0	20
WashU	Clown Squad	0	10	0	10
hawk two of	Music to Help You Stop Smoking	10	10	10	30
The Love Song of J Alfred PrufRock and Roll All Nite (and Party Every Day)	Northeast by Northwestern	0	10	10	20
BHSU ReFantazio	That Feeling When Knee Surgery Is in Five Days	10	10	0	20
Notre Dame	Who is the Colleen Hoover of the Zulus?	0	10	0	10
Defying Suavity	Cambridge	10	10	0	20
Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz	Cien Años de Quizboledad	0	10	0	10
Simple Vibes	Limp Franceskit	10	10	0	20
just one more half-dot bro	12 Litres of Green Tea	10	10	0	20
Walston et. al.	NJ TRANSit (and anwen i guess)	10	10	0	20
jeff mcneil #1 morningside heights fan club	Cope is the thing with feathers	0	10	0	10
Walston et. al.	NJ TRANSit (and anwen i guess)	10	10	0	20
Walston et. al.	NJ TRANSit (and anwen i guess)	10	10	0	20
Walston et. al.	NJ TRANSit (and anwen i guess)	10	10	0	20
Walston et. al.	NJ TRANSit (and anwen i guess)	10	10	0	20
Walston et. al.	NJ TRANSit (and anwen i guess)	10	10	0	20
Walston et. al.	NJ TRANSit (and anwen i guess)	10	10	0	20
Communism is Soviet power plus the yassification of the whole country	Moderator Can't Neg me While in Alpha	10	10	0	20
Simpson Agonistes: The Crisis of Donut	She Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA Interfere	10	10	10	30
Tensei Shitara Flashcard Data Ken	I'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up	10	10	0	20
The Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork Orange	You cannot go to Aarhus to see his peat-brown head / With eyes like ripening fruit	0	10	0	10
as rational as the square root of two power bottoms	Ryan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan Quizbowlers	0	10	0	10
Walston et. al.	NJ TRANSit (and anwen i guess)	10	10	0	20
A is for Amy Robsart who fell down the stairs	Berkeley	10	10	10	30
Cry of the Common Loon	Where are the ACF Nationals recordings?	10	10	0	20
number of tang poems = 75 times number of lines in a shi = 100 times number of lines in a haiku	Stanford+	0	10	0	10