Kurt Vonnegut - 2024 PLAYTIME

Question

This character makes several in-text appearances punctuated by the lines “That was I. That was me,” including one in a latrine where they excrete everything including their brains. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this character who likens themselves to Lot’s wife while writing a novel in which “there won’t be a part for Frank Sinatra or John Wayne.”

ANSWER: Kurt Vonnegut [or Kurt Vonnegut; prompt on the narrator of Slaughterhouse-Five or the author of Slaughterhouse-Five]

[10e] Vonnegut wrote a self-insert prologue chapter into Slaughterhouse-Five, which primarily follows this character who has “come unstuck in time.”

ANSWER: Billy Pilgrim [or Billy Pilgrim]

[10m] Vonnegut calls himself Philboyd Studge in the preface to this other novel he narrates. In this novel set in Midland City, the protagonist bites off Kilgore Trout’s finger after reading Trout’s book Now It Can Be Told.

ANSWER: Breakfast of Champions, or Goodbye Blue Monday

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Summary


2025 PLAYTIME @ CWRU	12/10/2024	Y	5	12.00	60%	40%	20%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Claremont	12/10/2024	Y	5	10.00	60%	40%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Florida	12/10/2024	Y	2	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Florida	12/10/2024	Y	1	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 PLAYTIME @ Harvard	04/26/2025	Y	4	12.50	100%	25%	0%
2024 PLAYTIME @ JHU	10/26/2024	Y	8	11.25	63%	25%	25%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Northwest	12/10/2024	Y	4	12.50	75%	50%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME Online	04/26/2025	Y	9	18.89	100%	78%	11%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Sheffield	12/10/2024	Y	6	6.67	50%	17%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Sheffield	12/10/2024	Y	1	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 PLAYTIME @ UBC	10/05/2024	Y	8	15.00	88%	50%	13%
2024 PLAYTIME @ Virginia Tech	07/11/2025	Y	3	16.67	100%	33%	33%
2024 PLAYTIME @ WashU	10/12/2024	Y	6	20.00	100%	83%	17%

Data


Michigan C	Michigan A	0	0	0	0
Michigan D	Oberlin	0	0	0	0
Pittsburgh	Ohio State A	10	10	10	30
Ohio State B	Ohio State C	0	10	0	10
Michigan B	Ohio State D	0	10	10	20
Claremont A	Art of Premature Signaling	0	10	10	20
Claremont B	girl 15 whale i mean they	0	10	0	10
UCLA A	P.C.‚ Daniel‚ Michel‚ and Jason B	0	10	0	10
UCSD	UCLA B	0	0	0	0
Too much from you lately	Billy's Bastion	0	10	10	20
Edwin Laundrorat's Long-Lost Man Unclothès Rat Degrosses	Project2025BC: Make Assyria Great Again	0	10	10	20
Keeping Up With the Cardassians	Qin Shi Huang's Immortality Poison	0	10	0	10
BU	Lexington	0	10	0	10
MIT	Brown	0	10	10	20
Belmont	Harvard	0	10	0	10
Brandeis	RIT	0	10	0	10
Catholic University of America	George Mason B	0	10	0	10
Rutgers	George Mason A	0	10	0	10
George Washington	Haverford B	0	0	0	0
Johns Hopkins B	Georgetown	0	0	0	0
Maryland A	NYU B	10	10	10	30
Maryland B	George Mason C	10	10	0	20
NYU A	CWRU	0	10	10	20
NYU C	Haverford A	0	0	0	0
Alberta	South Dakota School of Mines	0	0	0	0
UW B	Arizona State University A	0	10	10	20
UW A	Carleton	0	10	0	10
Arizona State University B	Washington Connections	0	10	10	20
Warwick A	Manchester	0	10	0	10
Edinburgh	Sheffield C	0	0	0	0
Warwick B	Imperial A	0	10	0	10
Lancaster	Cambridge	0	0	0	0
Sheffield A	Birmingham	0	10	0	10
LSE	Sheffield B	0	10	10	20
Imperial	Warwick C	0	0	0	0
Four Generalists in Search of a Power	Quatumvirate	10	10	0	20
Free Agents 1	Monsieur Hulot's Academic Team	0	10	10	20
mongeese	Goober Gang	0	10	0	10
Gruh	Illinois Orange	0	10	10	20
Notre Dame + Epic Games	MSJ	0	10	10	20
Mahjonng Masters	Mike Dukakis Tank Battalion	0	10	10	20
Egypt Airlines Haters	Trip-Hop Quizzer Tricky	0	10	10	20
Auburn 2026	evil women enjoyers	0	10	10	20
we need new names	2 Italians, 2 Poles, All Noles	0	10	10	20
4 quizbowl pros go Virginia on North Carolina	Somehow Paula Deen Returned	0	10	0	10
Adrianne Lenker 4 Nobel Lit Prize 2K65	Ashurbanipal’s Drag Race	0	10	0	10
Master and Margaritaville	Even in Blacksburg There I Am	10	10	10	30
Illinois A	Chicago A	10	10	10	30
Chicago B	SIUE	0	10	0	10
Iowa State	Missouri	0	10	10	20
WashU Charmander	Truman State	0	10	10	20
Illinois B	WashU Bulbasaur	0	10	10	20
WashU Squirtle	Illinois C	0	10	10	20
Waterloo B	Guelph	0	10	0	10
McGill A	Mac A	0	10	10	20
Ottawa A	Simon Fraser	0	10	0	10
Toronto A	Waterloo C	0	10	10	20
Toronto B	Toronto E	10	10	10	30
Toronto C	UBC	0	10	10	20
Toronto D	Toronto Metropolitan	0	10	0	10
Waterloo A	McGill B	0	0	0	0
UCSB	Caltech	0	0	10	10