Question

In a play, a man of this profession remarks of a woman that, “the only emotion she has ever succeeded in arousing in me” is “an intense and passionate disgust” while confessing their affair to her husband. In a play’s closing lines, a dead man of this profession returns to say that “sometimes all you can do” is “pass the parcel.” A man of this profession breaks down in tears when he reads the line “God from afar looks graciously upon a gentle master” inscribed in a gifted (*) translation of Aeschylus’s Agamemnon in Terence Rattigan’s play The Browning Version. (-5[1])In a 2004 play, an accident leaves a man of this profession named Irwin wheelchair-bound and kills his popular colleague Hector, who is fired for sexually assaulting kids while on a motorcycle. For 10 points, (10[1])name this profession held by most adults in Alan Bennett’s play The History Boys. (10[1])■END■

ANSWER: teacher [accept history teacher; accept instructor; accept schoolmaster; reject “professor”]
<Morrison, Drama>
= Average correct buzz position

Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Stephen LiuFree AgentsBerkeley B98-5
Nathaniel HullBerkeley AStanford13310
Rohan ShelkeBerkeley BFree Agents14710

Summary

2024 ESPN @ Stanford03/09/2024Y2100%0%50%140.00
2024 ESPN @ Chicago03/23/2024N6100%17%0%101.00
2024 ESPN @ Columbia03/23/2024N6100%17%0%113.67
2024 ESPN @ Duke03/23/2024N2100%0%0%137.00
2024 ESPN @ Brown04/06/2024N1100%0%0%71.00
2024 ESPN @ Brown04/06/2024N367%0%0%147.00
2024 ESPN @ Cambridge04/06/2024N2100%0%0%121.50
2024 ESPN @ Online06/01/2024N3100%0%0%115.00