The title gang of robbers is challenged by a group of these people in the first story of The Beautiful and the Grotesque. A different story begins with a servant recently dismissed by one of these people standing with a cricket under the title location in the rain. A man with a bow and arrows is arrested by a policeman after falling off a stolen sorrel horse belonging to one of these people. Ambrose Bierce’s “The Moonlit Road” inspired a story in which the wife of one of these people attempts to kill herself by stabbing her throat and throwing herself into a pond. A man with this profession recounts stabbing himself beneath a (*) cedar tree. That person of this profession speaks through a medium after conflicting testimonies during the trial of the bandit Tajōmaru. For 10 points, the death of what sort of person in Akutagawa's story “In a Grove” may have been by seppuku? ■END■
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| 2024 PLAYTIME @ Virginia Tech | 07/11/2025 | Y | 3 | 100% | 33% | 67% | 118.67 |
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| Noah Chin | Even in Blacksburg There I Am | Adrianne Lenker 4 Nobel Lit Prize 2K65 | 44 | 15 |
| Eshan Pant | NYU A | George Mason C | 47 | 15 |
| Ariel Faeder | Pittsburgh | Ohio State C | 49 | 15 |
| Jeevika Setzer | Johns Hopkins B | Maryland A | 52 | -5 |
| Braden Booth | Missouri | SIUE | 52 | 15 |
| Yrwin Batan | MIT | Lexington | 54 | 15 |
| Raymond Chen | Toronto C | Waterloo A | 54 | -5 |
| Sheehan Banka | Quatumvirate | Egypt Airlines Haters | 59 | 15 |
| Tracy Mirkin | Edwin Laundrorat's Long-Lost Man Unclothès Rat Degrosses | Billy's Bastion | 61 | 15 |
| Matthew Lam | Ohio State B | Michigan D | 68 | 15 |
| Tony Chen | Toronto B | Waterloo B | 72 | 15 |
| Michael Hunding | Illinois A | WashU Charmander | 72 | 15 |
| John Hines-Shah | Carleton | Alberta | 76 | 15 |
| Nick Edwards | McGill A | Simon Fraser | 84 | -5 |
| Chris Yoo | Mahjonng Masters | Goober Gang | 93 | -5 |
| Emily Kadolph | Master and Margaritaville | Somehow Paula Deen Returned | 93 | -5 |
| Ted Harrison | Edinburgh | Cambridge | 103 | -5 |
| Yusuf Baig | Mac A | Ottawa A | 103 | -5 |
| Thomas Tibbetts | Too much from you lately | Keeping Up With the Cardassians | 105 | 15 |
| Pradyumna Krishna | MSJ | Free Agents 1 | 105 | 15 |
| Zaid Asif | NYU C | CWRU | 107 | 15 |
| Arjun Kala | Illinois B | Chicago B | 107 | 15 |
| Ryan Smith | mongeese | evil women enjoyers | 115 | 10 |
| Fred Garvey | Truman State | WashU Squirtle | 125 | 10 |
| Arav Kaushik | we need new names | Four Generalists in Search of a Power | 126 | 10 |
| Roxanne Tang | Ohio State A | Michigan A | 127 | 10 |
| Bryan Ugaz | Arizona State University A | Arizona State University B | 128 | 10 |
| Carter Pisocky | Michigan B | Oberlin | 129 | 10 |
| Cole Hennessy | Qin Shi Huang's Immortality Poison | Project2025BC: Make Assyria Great Again | 130 | 10 |
| Eric Mukherjee | Mike Dukakis Tank Battalion | Auburn 2026 | 130 | 10 |
| Abdelrahman Elsisi | Sheffield A | Sheffield C | 130 | 10 |
| Andre Wong | LSE | Warwick B | 130 | 10 |
| Gary Lin | UCSD | P.C.‚ Daniel‚ Michel‚ and Jason B | 133 | 10 |
| Stan | Gruh | Notre Dame + Epic Games | 133 | 10 |
| Jaimie Carlson | Monsieur Hulot's Academic Team | Illinois Orange | 133 | 10 |
| Kai Madgwick | Manchester | Imperial B | 133 | 10 |
| Parth Jagtap | Toronto A | Toronto Metropolitan | 133 | 10 |
| Scarlett Rutter | Claremont B | UCLA B | 134 | -5 |
| Cole Hartung | Georgetown | George Washington | 134 | 10 |
| Daniel Sheinberg | Trip-Hop Quizzer Tricky | 2 Italians, 2 Poles, All Noles | 134 | 10 |
| Fish Tsai | girl 15 whale i mean they | Caltech | 137 | 10 |
| Cade Reinberger | RIT | Harvard | 137 | -5 |
| Sam Matson | Ashurbanipal’s Drag Race | 4 quizbowl pros go Virginia on North Carolina | 137 | -5 |
| Ethan Furman | Haverford A | George Mason A | 141 | 10 |
| Vivian Fan | Claremont A | UCSB | 144 | 10 |
| Danny Fisher | Warwick C | Birmingham | 144 | -5 |
| Arthur Gayden | Chicago A | Illinois C | 145 | 10 |
| Kenner Bailey | BU | Brown | 146 | -5 |
| Vikshar Athreya | Rutgers | Johns Hopkins A | 146 | -5 |
| Padraig Finan | Washington Connections | UW B | 146 | 10 |
| Yaj Jhajhria | UW A | South Dakota School of Mines | 150 | 10 |
| Rayton Lin | Waterloo C | Toronto D | 153 | 10 |
| Antoni Kluzowski | Warwick A | Imperial A | 154 | 10 |
| Nate Kang | NYU B | Catholic University of America | 155 | 10 |
| Nathan Ouyang | Michigan C | Ohio State D | 156 | 10 |
| Freddie O’Hara | UCLA A | Art of Premature Signaling | 156 | 10 |
| Andrew Nucci | UCLA B | Claremont B | 156 | 10 |
| Gregory Zeldovich | Belmont | Brandeis | 156 | 10 |
| Alex Jiang | Brown | BU | 156 | 10 |
| Joy An | Harvard | RIT | 156 | 0 |
| Audrey Cho | Haverford B | George Mason B | 156 | 10 |
| Elizabeth Jewlal | Johns Hopkins A | Rutgers | 156 | 10 |
| Isaac Mammel | Maryland A | Johns Hopkins B | 156 | 10 |
| Coy Mier | Goober Gang | Mahjonng Masters | 156 | 10 |
| Brendan Bethlehem | Cambridge | Edinburgh | 156 | 0 |
| Andrew Fisher | Sheffield B | Lancaster | 156 | 10 |
| Sam Hastings | Birmingham | Warwick C | 156 | 10 |
| Kevin Ye | Simon Fraser | McGill A | 156 | 10 |
| Jesse Chusing | Ottawa A | Mac A | 156 | 0 |
| Jared He | Waterloo A | Toronto C | 156 | 10 |
| Elijah Mandelbaum | Guelph | Toronto E | 156 | 10 |
| Tai Belke | UBC | McGill B | 156 | 10 |
| Graham Troy | 4 quizbowl pros go Virginia on North Carolina | Ashurbanipal’s Drag Race | 156 | 10 |
| Vasa Clarke | Somehow Paula Deen Returned | Master and Margaritaville | 156 | 10 |
| Conor Thompson | Iowa State | WashU Bulbasaur | 157 | 10 |