“Vesti la giubba” - 2024 PLAYTIME

Question

This aria includes a tradition of letting the voice crack in a sob-note at its climax. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this aria in which Canio bemoans having to perform immediately after hearing of his wife’s infidelity. This aria’s title expresses the sentiment that “the show must go on.”

ANSWER: “Vesti la giubba” [prompt on “Put on the Costume” or “On With the Motley”]

[10e] Canio is a member of this profession, which titles the Leoncavallo opera in which he appears. In “Vesti la giubba,” he puts on the makeup of this profession and tells himself to “turn your distress and tears into jokes.”

ANSWER: clown [accept Pagliacci or il pagliacco; prompt on pierrot or commedia dell’arte actor; prompt on circus performer]

[10h] This tenor’s 1902 recording of “Vesti la giubba” was the first record to sell more than a million copies. This prolific Italian tenor was extorted by two Black Hand gangsters, whom he later helped apprehend.

ANSWER: Enrico Caruso

<JC, Other Fine Arts>

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Summary


2025 PLAYTIME @ CWRU	12/10/2024	Y	5	10.00	40%	20%	40%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Claremont	12/10/2024	Y	5	12.00	100%	20%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Florida	12/10/2024	Y	3	16.67	100%	33%	33%
2024 PLAYTIME @ Harvard	04/26/2025	Y	4	12.50	100%	25%	0%
2024 PLAYTIME @ JHU	10/26/2024	Y	8	12.50	100%	13%	13%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Northwest	12/10/2024	Y	4	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME Online	04/26/2025	Y	9	14.44	100%	22%	22%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Sheffield	12/10/2024	Y	7	12.86	86%	14%	29%
2024 PLAYTIME @ UBC	10/05/2024	Y	8	15.00	100%	25%	25%
2024 PLAYTIME @ Virginia Tech	07/11/2025	Y	3	16.67	100%	0%	67%
2024 PLAYTIME @ WashU	10/12/2024	Y	6	25.00	100%	67%	83%

Data


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