Oscar Wilde - 2024 PLAYTIME

Question

Max Beerbohm’s half-brother, Herbert Beerbohm Tree, appeared in a production of a play by this author about Gerald Arbuthnot’s parentage. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this author who wrote about Mrs. Cheveley blackmailing Robert Chiltern in the play An Ideal Husband.

ANSWER: Oscar Wilde [or Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde]

[10e] Wilde wrote about Lord Illingworth’s illegitimate son in a play titled for A Woman of No [this word]. Jack Worthing is swapped as a baby by Miss Prism in a Wilde play titled The [this word] of Being Earnest.

ANSWER: importance [accept word forms; accept no importance or A Woman of No Importance]

[10h] This playwright wrote an adaptation of A Woman of No Importance that was used for the TV show Talking Heads. This author of The Habit of Art wrote about pupils of Cutlers’ Grammar School in The History Boys.

ANSWER: Alan Bennett

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Summary


2025 PLAYTIME @ CWRU	12/10/2024	Y	5	14.00	100%	40%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Claremont	12/10/2024	Y	5	14.00	100%	20%	20%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Florida	12/10/2024	Y	2	30.00	100%	100%	100%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Florida	12/10/2024	Y	1	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 PLAYTIME @ Harvard	04/26/2025	Y	5	16.00	100%	60%	0%
2024 PLAYTIME @ JHU	10/26/2024	Y	8	11.25	88%	13%	13%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Northwest	12/10/2024	Y	4	17.50	100%	50%	25%
2025 PLAYTIME Online	04/26/2025	Y	7	22.86	100%	86%	43%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Sheffield	12/10/2024	Y	6	21.67	100%	83%	33%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Sheffield	12/10/2024	Y	1	30.00	100%	100%	100%
2024 PLAYTIME @ UBC	10/05/2024	Y	8	25.00	100%	88%	63%
2024 PLAYTIME @ Virginia Tech	07/11/2025	Y	3	23.33	100%	100%	33%
2024 PLAYTIME @ WashU	10/12/2024	Y	6	20.00	100%	50%	50%

Data


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