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■
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
---|---|---|---|---|
Jordan Brownstein | "Powers a question on Stancyzk" that's a clown question bro | Hu up Jinning they Tao | 54 | 15 |
Joel Miles | Thompson et al. | throw away your cards, rally in the streets | 117 | -5 |
Walter Zhang | Import Pandas | |madam| | 121 | -5 |
Kevin Wang | CLEVELAND, THIS IS FOR YOU! | UBC | 124 | -5 |
JinAh Kim | Banned from ARGOS | Pahkin' the Ahgo | 151 | 10 |
Michael Kearney | |madam| | Import Pandas | 157 | 10 |
Henry Bon | I wish it were possible to freeze time so I would never have to watch you retire | Aw we're so sorry to hear that maman died today, she gets five big booms | 157 | 0 |
Tai Belke | UBC | CLEVELAND, THIS IS FOR YOU! | 157 | 0 |
Camden Walker | Aw we're so sorry to hear that maman died today, she gets five big booms | I wish it were possible to freeze time so I would never have to watch you retire | 157 | 0 |
Ariel Faeder | throw away your cards, rally in the streets | Thompson et al. | 157 | 10 |
Summary
2024 ARGOS @ Stanford | 02/22/2025 | N | 3 | 100% | 67% | 0% | 77.00 |
2024 ARGOS Online | 03/22/2025 | Y | 3 | 33% | 0% | 67% | 157.00 |
2024 ARGOS @ Brandeis | 03/22/2025 | Y | 3 | 100% | 33% | 33% | 120.67 |
2024 ARGOS @ McMaster | 11/17/2024 | N | 5 | 60% | 0% | 20% | 120.33 |
2024 ARGOS @ Chicago | 11/23/2024 | N | 6 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 138.17 |
2024 ARGOS @ Columbia | 11/23/2024 | N | 3 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 133.33 |
2024 ARGOS @ Christ's College | 12/14/2024 | N | 3 | 67% | 33% | 0% | 80.50 |