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 boots or dance the foxtrot. A play by this author ends with the inventor of a (*) time machine departing to 2030 with the Phosphorescent Woman. On the day of his wedding to Elzevira Renaissance, a protagonist created by this playwright named Ivan Prisypkin is frozen for fifty years alongside the title insect. For 10 points, The Bathhouse and The Bedbug are plays by what Russian Futurist author? ■END■
Summary
2024 ARGOS @ Stanford | 02/22/2025 | Y | 3 | 67% | 0% | 67% | 146.50 |
2024 ARGOS Online | 03/22/2025 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 67% | 143.67 |
2024 ARGOS @ Brandeis | 03/22/2025 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 136.00 |
2024 ARGOS @ McMaster | 11/17/2024 | Y | 5 | 80% | 0% | 20% | 140.25 |
2024 ARGOS @ Columbia | 11/23/2024 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 141.67 |
2024 ARGOS @ Chicago | 11/23/2024 | Y | 6 | 50% | 0% | 17% | 123.33 |
2024 ARGOS @ Christ's College | 12/14/2024 | Y | 3 | 67% | 0% | 0% | 131.50 |
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
---|---|---|---|---|
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 | 80 | -5 |
Eve Fleisig | Berkeley | Cry of the Common Loon | 98 | -5 |
Jason Golfinos | Where are the ACF Nationals recordings? | Stanford+ | 101 | -5 |
Matt Lafer | Music to Help You Stop Smoking | Who is the Colleen Hoover of the Zulus? | 105 | 10 |
Matt Bollinger | BHSU ReFantazio | The Love Song of J Alfred PrufRock and Roll All Nite (and Party Every Day) | 128 | 10 |
Jordan Brownstein | "Powers a question on Stancyzk" that's a clown question bro | Hu up Jinning they Tao | 129 | 10 |
John Lawrence | Walston et. al. | 12 Litres of Green Tea | 129 | 10 |
Jaimie Carlson | Banned from ARGOS | Pahkin' the Ahgo | 131 | 10 |
Todd Maslyk | Clown Senpais | That Feeling When Knee Surgery Is in Five Days | 131 | -5 |
Sam Moore | Simple Vibes | Defying Suavity | 131 | 10 |
Omer Keskin | Cien Años de Quizboledad | Limp Franceskit | 132 | 10 |
Kevin Wang | CLEVELAND, THIS IS FOR YOU! | UBC | 132 | -5 |
Ariel Faeder | throw away your cards, rally in the streets | Thompson et al. | 135 | 10 |
Rob Carson | BHSU Rebirth | WashU | 137 | 10 |
Emmett Laurie | jeff mcneil #1 morningside heights fan club | just one more half-dot bro | 137 | -5 |
Mattias Ehatamm | You cannot go to Aarhus to see his peat-brown head / With eyes like ripening fruit | I'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up | 137 | 10 |
Raymond Chen | She Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA Interfere | Ryan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan Quizbowlers | 137 | 10 |
Henry Atkins | Communism is Soviet power plus the yassification of the whole country | Tensei Shitara Flashcard Data Ken | 140 | -5 |
Tony Chen | Simpson Agonistes: The Crisis of Donut | The Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork Orange | 140 | 10 |
Michal Gerasimiuk | Stanford+ | Where are the ACF Nationals recordings? | 145 | 0 |
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 | 145 | 10 |
Maude-Sophie Lockman | as rational as the square root of two power bottoms | Moderator Can't Neg me While in Alpha | 147 | 10 |
Michael Kearney | |madam| | Import Pandas | 148 | 10 |
Patrick Quion | Northeast by Northwestern | Clown Squad | 148 | 0 |
Sinecio Morales | hawk two of | Notre Dame | 148 | 0 |
Leo Tao | Clown Squad | Northeast by Northwestern | 148 | 0 |
Will Sanders | Notre Dame | hawk two of | 148 | 0 |
Liam Starnes | That Feeling When Knee Surgery Is in Five Days | Clown Senpais | 148 | 0 |
Zosia Mikolajczuk | Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz | Cambridge | 148 | 0 |
Jeremy Tsai | just one more half-dot bro | jeff mcneil #1 morningside heights fan club | 148 | 10 |
Anwen Kelleher | NJ TRANSit (and anwen i guess) | Cope is the thing with feathers | 148 | 10 |
Taylor Harvey | Cry of the Common Loon | Berkeley | 148 | 10 |
Michael Coates | 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 | 148 | 10 |
Tai Belke | UBC | CLEVELAND, THIS IS FOR YOU! | 148 | 10 |