In a play by this author, a ruler poetically describes “The graceful turn of his neck / as he glances back at our speeding car” while chasing an animal in a chariot. In the opening scene of a play by this author, an ascetic prophecies that a king will father a universal emperor after sparing a black hermitage antelope. A woman who is turned into a vine in a play by this author writes of her love on a birch leaf that is seen by her lover’s wife. A celestial dancer titles a play by this author in which she is (*) “Won by Valor.” While daydreaming in a temple, the title character of a play by this author is cursed by the sage Durvasa so that her husband, King Dushyanta, forgets her until a signet ring is found in the belly of a fish. For 10 points, name this Sanskrit-language playwright of The Recognition of Shakuntala. ■END■
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| 2025 PLAYTIME Online | 04/26/2025 | Y | 9 | 100% | 44% | 22% | 111.22 |
| 2024 PLAYTIME @ Virginia Tech | 07/11/2025 | Y | 3 | 100% | 67% | 0% | 87.33 |
| 2024 PLAYTIME @ UBC | 10/05/2024 | Y | 8 | 100% | 38% | 0% | 118.13 |
| 2024 PLAYTIME @ WashU | 10/12/2024 | Y | 6 | 100% | 33% | 0% | 110.00 |
| 2024 PLAYTIME @ JHU | 10/26/2024 | Y | 7 | 86% | 43% | 14% | 101.33 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ Northwest | 12/10/2024 | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 129.50 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ Claremont | 12/10/2024 | Y | 5 | 100% | 20% | 0% | 117.00 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ Florida | 12/10/2024 | Y | 2 | 100% | 50% | 0% | 108.00 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ Florida | 12/10/2024 | Y | 1 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 122.00 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ CWRU | 12/10/2024 | Y | 5 | 100% | 20% | 20% | 128.40 |
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| S. A. Shenoy | Trip-Hop Quizzer Tricky | Four Generalists in Search of a Power | 35 | -5 |
| Antoni Kluzowski | Warwick A | Warwick B | 47 | 15 |
| Justin Wytmar | Illinois A | Illinois C | 52 | 15 |
| Vikshar Athreya | Rutgers | NYU C | 56 | 15 |
| Anderson Wang | Art of Premature Signaling | UCLA B | 58 | 15 |
| Tracy Mirkin | Edwin Laundrorat's Long-Lost Man Unclothès Rat Degrosses | Qin Shi Huang's Immortality Poison | 60 | 15 |
| Kunaal Chandrashekar | Toronto A | Toronto E | 60 | 15 |
| Noah Chin | Even in Blacksburg There I Am | Somehow Paula Deen Returned | 61 | 15 |
| Arjun Kala | Illinois B | Missouri | 66 | 15 |
| Todd Maslyk | Michigan A | Ohio State D | 71 | 15 |
| Yrwin Batan | MIT | Harvard | 72 | 15 |
| Jacob Finley | Notre Dame + Epic Games | Illinois Orange | 72 | 15 |
| Jim Fan | Master and Margaritaville | Ashurbanipal’s Drag Race | 76 | 15 |
| Biyang Zhang | Michigan B | Ohio State A | 86 | -5 |
| Abhiraam Girish | MSJ | Monsieur Hulot's Academic Team | 87 | 15 |
| El Sanzalone | evil women enjoyers | Mahjonng Masters | 87 | 15 |
| Raymond Chen | Toronto C | Mac A | 87 | 15 |
| Aditya Shivaswamy | Johns Hopkins A | George Mason A | 93 | 15 |
| Eric Mukherjee | Mike Dukakis Tank Battalion | Goober Gang | 93 | 15 |
| Caleb Ott | Waterloo B | Toronto D | 96 | 15 |
| Gregory Zeldovich | Belmont | Brown | 117 | 10 |
| Thomas Tibbetts | Too much from you lately | Project2025BC: Make Assyria Great Again | 122 | 10 |
| Dmitri Anh-Minh Tran | UCSB | Claremont B | 123 | 10 |
| Arav Kaushik | we need new names | Quatumvirate | 123 | 10 |
| Ariel Faeder | Pittsburgh | Michigan D | 123 | 10 |
| Andre Wong | LSE | Cambridge | 123 | 10 |
| Neal Joshi | WashU Bulbasaur | Chicago B | 124 | 10 |
| Ryan Rosenberg | Adrianne Lenker 4 Nobel Lit Prize 2K65 | 4 quizbowl pros go Virginia on North Carolina | 125 | 10 |
| Parikshit Chauhan | P.C.‚ Daniel‚ Michel‚ and Jason B | Caltech | 127 | 10 |
| Nolan Dannels | girl 15 whale i mean they | Claremont A | 127 | 10 |
| Yaj Jhajhria | UW A | Arizona State University B | 127 | 10 |
| Shahar Schwartz | Egypt Airlines Haters | 2 Italians, 2 Poles, All Noles | 127 | 10 |
| Arjun Vijaykumar | Four Generalists in Search of a Power | Trip-Hop Quizzer Tricky | 127 | 10 |
| Jack van Nostrand | Toronto Metropolitan | Guelph | 127 | 10 |
| Conor Thompson | Iowa State | SIUE | 127 | 10 |
| Anne Fjeld | Alberta | UW B | 128 | 10 |
| Eli Issokson | Georgetown | Catholic University of America | 129 | 10 |
| Padraig Finan | Washington Connections | Carleton | 129 | 10 |
| Ryan Smith | mongeese | Auburn 2026 | 129 | 10 |
| Shishir Bharadwaj | Lexington | RIT | 129 | 10 |
| Tony Chen | Toronto B | Waterloo C | 129 | 10 |
| Bryan Ugaz | Arizona State University A | South Dakota School of Mines | 134 | 10 |
| Joseph Chambers | Free Agents 1 | Gruh | 135 | -5 |
| Liam Starnes | Chicago A | Truman State | 135 | 10 |
| Daniel Kim | Maryland B | CWRU | 143 | 10 |
| Rishi Swaminathan | NYU B | George Washington | 143 | -5 |
| Pranet Sirikonda | Ohio State C | Oberlin | 143 | 10 |
| Tai Belke | UBC | McGill A | 143 | 10 |
| Roxanne Tang | Ohio State A | Michigan B | 149 | 10 |
| Josh Xu | UCLA A | UCSD | 150 | 10 |
| Dexter Hine | Simon Fraser | McGill B | 150 | 10 |
| Varun Gupta | Sheffield C | Lancaster + Sheffield C | 153 | 10 |
| Jesse Chusing | Ottawa A | Waterloo A | 153 | 10 |
| Isaac Mammel | Maryland A | Haverford B | 155 | 10 |
| Rhys Lewis | Sheffield A | Imperial B | 156 | 0 |
| Paphon Susikakosol | Imperial A | Sheffield B | 156 | 0 |
| Andrew Fisher | Sheffield B | Imperial A | 156 | 0 |
| Matthew Lam | Ohio State B | Michigan C | 156 | 10 |
| Seth Kendall | Billy's Bastion | Keeping Up With the Cardassians | 156 | 10 |
| Nikhil Nair | BU | Brandeis | 156 | 10 |
| John John Groger | WashU Charmander | WashU Squirtle | 156 | 10 |
| Aneesh Shotriya | Gruh | Free Agents 1 | 156 | 10 |