Question
One character in this play relates how he met “a certain lady” by the docks who made a “certain proposal,” leading him to punch her and contemplate murdering her. A character in this play calls the others “objects” who can’t maintain “intellectual equilibrium” or understand his philosophical works. In a sexually-charged scene in this play, a woman asks a man to lie down so she can pour a glass of water down his throat. This play’s first line, “What have you done with the scissors?”, appeared in the author’s head before he wrote the play according to his (*) Nobel lecture “Art, Truth & Politics.” In this play, Sam collapses after admitting that MacGregor had sex with his sister-in-law Jessie. In this play, the boxer Joey is criticized for not going “the whole hog” with his brother’s wife Ruth. For 10 points, Teddy and his wife return to his family house in England in what Harold Pinter play? ■END■
Summary
2024 ARGOS @ Stanford | 02/22/2025 | Y | 3 | 100% | 67% | 0% | 77.00 |
2024 ARGOS Online | 03/22/2025 | N | 3 | 33% | 0% | 67% | 157.00 |
2024 ARGOS @ Brandeis | 03/22/2025 | N | 3 | 100% | 33% | 33% | 120.67 |
2024 ARGOS @ McMaster | 11/17/2024 | Y | 5 | 60% | 0% | 20% | 120.33 |
2024 ARGOS @ Chicago | 11/23/2024 | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 138.17 |
2024 ARGOS @ Columbia | 11/23/2024 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 133.33 |
2024 ARGOS @ Christ's College | 12/14/2024 | Y | 3 | 67% | 33% | 0% | 80.50 |
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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Claire Jones | Defying Suavity | Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz | 28 | 15 |
Stephen Liu | Where are the ACF Nationals recordings? | Stanford+ | 35 | 15 |
Eve Fleisig | Berkeley | Cry of the Common Loon | 64 | 15 |
Tony Chen | Simpson Agonistes: The Crisis of Donut | I'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up | 108 | -5 |
Hazel Depreist-Sullivan | NJ TRANSit (and anwen | Cope is the thing with feathers | 109 | -5 |
Mattias Ehatamm | You cannot go to Aarhus to see his peat-brown head / With eyes like ripening fruit | Moderator Can't Neg me While in Alpha | 112 | 10 |
Eshan Pant | just one more half-dot bro | jeff mcneil #1 morningside heights fan club | 117 | 10 |
Caleb Ott | Tensei Shitara Flashcard Data Ken | as rational as the square root of two power bottoms | 117 | 10 |
Matt Bollinger | BHSU ReFantazio | hawk two of | 118 | 10 |
Ned Tagtmeier | The Love Song of J Alfred PrufRock and Roll All Nite (and Party Every Day) | Clown Senpais | 121 | 10 |
John Lawrence | Walston et. al. | 12 Litres of Green Tea | 126 | 10 |
Michael Hundiing | Who is the Colleen Hoover of the Zulus? | Northeast by Northwestern | 132 | 10 |
Raymond Chen | She Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA Interfere | Communism is Soviet power plus the yassification of the whole country | 132 | 10 |
Neil Gurram | A is for Amy Robsart who fell down the stairs | number of tang poems = 75 times number of lines in a shi = 100 times number of lines in a haiku | 132 | 10 |
Omer Keskin | Cien Años de Quizboledad | Simple Vibes | 133 | 10 |
Tejas Raje | BHSU Rebirth | Notre Dame | 148 | 10 |
Charles Hang | WashU | That Feeling When Knee Surgery Is in Five Days | 153 | 10 |
Matt Lafer | Music to Help You Stop Smoking | Clown Squad | 157 | 10 |
Benjamin Watson | Limp Franceskit | Cambridge | 157 | 0 |
Ian McDowell | Cambridge | Limp Franceskit | 157 | 0 |
Ryan Rosenberg | Cope is the thing with feathers | NJ TRANSit (and anwen | 157 | 10 |
Erik Christensen | I'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up | Simpson Agonistes: The Crisis of Donut | 157 | 0 |
Adrian Wong | The Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork Orange | Ryan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan Quizbowlers | 157 | 0 |
Jack van Nostrand | Ryan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan Quizbowlers | The Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork Orange | 157 | 0 |