Question
The protagonist of this play ponders the phrase “Sometimes it is mutual” in an imagined conversation with his childhood friend, Marc. In this play's opening scene, the protagonist describes his makeshift coffee table after watching a character dance upstage to a love duet. After reading a letter stating, “I have already given you my shame,” the protagonist of this play, who wants to divorce Helga, compares his lover to a character created by John Luther (*) Long. At the end of this play’s second act, a character takes off a costume in real time following a reunion with a diplomat in Paris. This play ends with the protagonist committing suicide while wearing a kimono owned by Song Liling, a man acting as a Chinese spy. For 10 points, name this play about René Gallimard by David Henry Hwang, whose title references a Puccini opera. ■END■
Summary
2024 Penn Bowl UNC | 10/26/2024 | Y | 3 | 67% | 0% | 33% | 119.00 |
2024 Penn Bowl Florida | 10/26/2024 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 50% | 128.50 |
2024 Penn Bowl Harvard | 10/26/2024 | Y | 4 | 75% | 0% | 25% | 121.00 |
2024 Penn Bowl UK | 10/26/2024 | Y | 5 | 60% | 0% | 20% | 111.67 |
2024 Penn Bowl Berkeley | 11/02/2024 | Y | 2 | 100% | 50% | 0% | 77.00 |
2024 Penn Bowl Mainsite | 11/02/2024 | Y | 3 | 100% | 33% | 0% | 100.33 |
2024 Penn Bowl CWRU | 11/02/2024 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 121.67 |
2024 Penn Bowl Chicago | 11/02/2024 | Y | 7 | 86% | 0% | 14% | 123.83 |
2024 Penn Bowl Texas | 11/02/2024 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 123.50 |
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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Michal Gerasimiuk | Stanford | Berkeley C | 54 | 15 |
Thomas Tibbetts | UCF | UF B | 54 | -5 |
Eshan Pant | NYU A | Maryland | 57 | 15 |
Sam Moore | Gressenheller A | Limp Chriskit | 59 | -5 |
Jaise King | BU | Yale B | 64 | -5 |
Ben Russel Jones | Four Times I Have Despised My Soul | Oxford School for Quizness | 83 | 10 |
Christopher Sims | Northwestern A | WUSTL | 89 | 10 |
Eve Fleisig | Berkeley A | Berkeley B | 100 | 10 |
William Orr | Yale A | Brandeis | 104 | 10 |
Todd Maslyk | Michigan A | Ohio State B | 106 | 10 |
William Golden | Houston | TAMU | 109 | 10 |
Michael Hunding | Illinois A | Purdue | 112 | 10 |
Khanh Nguyen | UF A | UF C | 114 | 10 |
Ariel Faeder | Pittsburgh | Carnegie Mellon | 116 | 10 |
Jim Fan | UNC B | RIT A | 116 | 10 |
Sinecio Morales | JHU A | JHU B | 121 | 10 |
Omer Keskin | Say it | LSE | 122 | 10 |
Noah Chin | Virginia Tech A | UNC A | 122 | 10 |
Yrwin Batan | MIT | Harvard B | 123 | 10 |
Moses Kitakule | Columbia | NYU B | 123 | 10 |
Kevin Zheng | Michigan B | Ohio State A | 124 | -5 |
Zach Joseph | Notre Dame A | Indiana A | 129 | 10 |
Adam Jones | 3HK1MM | The Crying of Team 49 | 130 | 10 |
Shardul Parthasarathy | Illinois B | Chicago A | 136 | -5 |
Ned Tagtmeier | Chicago A | Illinois B | 136 | 10 |
Joy An | Harvard A | Tufts | 136 | 10 |
Joel Miles | Minnesota | Notre Dame C | 138 | 10 |
Jisoo Yoo | Texas A | Texas B | 138 | 10 |
Jonathan Shauf | UNC C | Duke A | 138 | -5 |
Jacob Finley | Notre Dame B | Indiana B | 139 | 10 |
Trevor Darr | Duke A | UNC C | 142 | 0 |
Jacob Goodson | Ohio State A | Michigan B | 143 | 10 |
Ryan Happel | SIUE | Northwestern B | 143 | 0 |
Stephen Walsh | Northwestern B | SIUE | 143 | 0 |
Leo Law | UF B | UCF | 143 | 10 |
Andrei Hui | Sorted | See it | 143 | 0 |
Agnijo Banerjee | See it | Sorted | 143 | 0 |
Iyanu Nafiu | Yale B | BU | 144 | 0 |