Question

This character’s sister is burned with cigarettes after refusing to give away his location in Yaël ("yah-EL") Farber’s post-apartheid play Molora. The title group of another play threatens to poison the soil after this character exits the stage, having just encouraged a city to wield the “spear of victory” against its enemies. In a 20th-century play, while women carry funeral urns to a (-5[1])statue of Zeus, this character introduces himself (15[1])under the alias (15[2])Philebus. (-5[1])This character devises a blood (*) tribute to Zeus (10[1])in a play in which he interprets himself as a snake in his (10[1])mother’s (10[2]-5[2])dream. Athena renames the (10[2])Furies after (10[1])she (10[3])casts the (10[3])tie-breaking (10[4])vote (10[1])at this (10[1])character’s (10[2])trial for (10[2])murdering his (10[1])mother, (10[1]-5[1])Clytemnestra. For 10 points, name this son of Agamemnon, the (10[1])namesake of a trilogy of Greek tragedies by Aeschylus. (10[4])■END■

ANSWER: Orestes [accept Oresteia]
<Felix Wang, European Literature>
= Average correct buzz position

Summary

2024 Penn Bowl UNC10/26/2024Y3100%0%33%117.67
2024 Penn Bowl Florida10/26/2024Y2100%0%0%109.00
2024 Penn Bowl Harvard10/26/2024Y4100%25%0%93.00
2024 Penn Bowl UK10/26/2024Y5100%0%40%116.00
2024 Penn Bowl Berkeley11/02/2024Y2100%0%50%109.50
2024 Penn Bowl Mainsite11/02/2024Y3100%0%33%111.33
2024 Penn Bowl CWRU11/02/2024Y4100%25%0%98.00
2024 Penn Bowl Chicago11/02/2024Y8100%13%0%96.63
2024 Penn Bowl Texas11/02/2024Y2100%0%0%103.50

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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Frances HadleyGressenheller ASorted61-5
Joy AnHarvard AYale A6815
Yashwanth BajjiMichigan APittsburgh7115
Ned TagtmeierChicago ASIUE7115
Max Fitz-JamesFour Times I Have Despised My SoulSay it72-5
Charles HangWUSTLIllinois C8010
Justin WytmarIllinois AIndiana B9410
Eve FleisigBerkeley ABerkeley C9510
John XiangBerkeley BStanford95-5
James McCurleyHarvard BYale B9510
Sinecio MoralesJHU APrinceton95-5
Rohan Navaneetha RajOhio State COhio State A9910
Gus VanskikeMarylandColumbia9910
Matt SchiavoneNorthwestern AChicago B10110
Zaid AsifNYU BJHU B10210
Keerthana KrishnanTexas BHouston10210
Andre WongLSE3HK1MM10210
Shardul ParthasarathyIllinois BNorthwestern B10410
Yrwin BatanMITBU10410
Eileen PengOxford School for QuiznessThe Crying of Team 4910410
Kennedy GallaherNotre Dame CIndiana A10510
Joel MilesMinnesotaNotre Dame A10510
Christopher DechBrandeisTufts10510
Dimitris KalafatisTAMUTexas A10510
Ivan StanisavljevicDuke AVirginia Tech A10610
Seraphina CharlotteSee itLimp Chriskit10810
Leo LawUF BUF A10910
Thomas TibbettsUCFUF C10910
Jack LengaCarnegie MellonOhio State B11110
Daniel LianMichigan BMichigan State11110
Jacob FinleyNotre Dame BPurdue11310
Jonathan ShaufUNC CRIT A11410
Jim FanUNC BUNC A114-5
Michal GerasimiukStanfordBerkeley B12410
Jake GrodnerPrincetonJHU A13310
Sarah HendersonSay itFour Times I Have Despised My Soul13310
Brendan BethlehemSortedGressenheller A13310
Vincent DuUNC AUNC B13310