Question

When a character in one of this author’s plays offers to sing an epithalamium to the god Hymen, the protagonist asks why they would sing to the Himalayas during his wedding. In another play by this author, an official has an equestrian portrait painted while two characters attempt to circumvent his secretary, who is named for optimism, to warn him of an impending explosion. The protagonist of a play by this author accidentally creates an epidemic that causes people to lick (-5[1])boots or dance the foxtrot. A play by this author ends with the inventor of a (*) time machine (-5[1])departing to 2030 (-5[1])with the Phosphorescent Woman. (10[1])On the day of his wedding to Elzevira Renaissance, a protagonist created by this playwright named Ivan Prisypkin is frozen for fifty years (10[1])alongside (10[2])the title (10[2]-5[1])insect. (10[1]-5[1])For 10 points, (10[1])The Bathhouse (10[3]-5[1])and The Bedbug (10[1]-5[1])are plays by what Russian (10[1]0[1])Futurist author? (10[1])■END■ (10[6]0[6])

ANSWER: Vladimir Mayakovsky [or Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky]
<Literature - European Literature - Drama>
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Summary

2024 ARGOS @ Stanford02/22/2025Y367%0%67%146.50
2024 ARGOS Online03/22/2025Y3100%0%67%143.67
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Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Camden WalkerAw we're so sorry to hear that maman died today, she gets five big boomsI wish it were possible to freeze time so I would never have to watch you retire80-5
Eve FleisigBerkeleyCry of the Common Loon98-5
Jason GolfinosWhere are the ACF Nationals recordings?Stanford+101-5
Matt LaferMusic to Help You Stop SmokingWho is the Colleen Hoover of the Zulus?10510
Matt BollingerBHSU ReFantazioThe Love Song of J Alfred PrufRock and Roll All Nite (and Party Every Day)12810
Jordan Brownstein"Powers a question on Stancyzk" that's a clown question broHu up Jinning they Tao12910
John LawrenceWalston et. al.12 Litres of Green Tea12910
Jaimie CarlsonBanned from ARGOSPahkin' the Ahgo13110
Todd MaslykClown SenpaisThat Feeling When Knee Surgery Is in Five Days131-5
Sam MooreSimple VibesDefying Suavity13110
Omer KeskinCien Años de QuizboledadLimp Franceskit13210
Kevin WangCLEVELAND, THIS IS FOR YOU!UBC132-5
Ariel Faederthrow away your cards, rally in the streetsThompson et al.13510
Rob CarsonBHSU RebirthWashU13710
Emmett Lauriejeff mcneil #1 morningside heights fan clubjust one more half-dot bro137-5
Mattias EhatammYou cannot go to Aarhus to see his peat-brown head / With eyes like ripening fruitI'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up13710
Raymond ChenShe Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA InterfereRyan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan Quizbowlers13710
Henry AtkinsCommunism is Soviet power plus the yassification of the whole countryTensei Shitara Flashcard Data Ken140-5
Tony ChenSimpson Agonistes: The Crisis of DonutThe Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork Orange14010
Michal GerasimiukStanford+Where are the ACF Nationals recordings?1450
Neil GurramA is for Amy Robsart who fell down the stairsnumber of tang poems = 75 times number of lines in a shi = 100 times number of lines in a haiku14510
Maude-Sophie Lockmanas rational as the square root of two power bottomsModerator Can't Neg me While in Alpha14710
Michael Kearney|madam|Import Pandas14810
Patrick QuionNortheast by NorthwesternClown Squad1480
Sinecio Moraleshawk two ofNotre Dame1480
Leo TaoClown SquadNortheast by Northwestern1480
Will SandersNotre Damehawk two of1480
Liam StarnesThat Feeling When Knee Surgery Is in Five DaysClown Senpais1480
Zosia MikolajczukGrzegorz BrzęczyszczykiewiczCambridge1480
Jeremy Tsaijust one more half-dot brojeff mcneil #1 morningside heights fan club14810
Anwen KelleherNJ TRANSit (and anwen i guess)Cope is the thing with feathers14810
Taylor HarveyCry of the Common LoonBerkeley14810
Michael CoatesI wish it were possible to freeze time so I would never have to watch you retireAw we're so sorry to hear that maman died today, she gets five big booms14810
Tai BelkeUBCCLEVELAND, THIS IS FOR YOU!14810