To hear this figure speak at night, Euclid of Megara snuck into a city dressed as a woman. In the introduction to Porphyry’s Isagoge, this figure is equated with “Essence” and classified as an individual with peculiarities like being “the son of Sophroniscus.” After a man calls this character his only worthy lover, this character compares trading their beauty to Diomedes trading bronze for gold. This character contains divine, golden images according to a speech comparing this figure to busts of (*) Silenus and Marsyas. This character claims Aristophanes’s The Clouds led to charges being brought against him. In one text, this character delivers a speech featuring a metaphor he learned from Diotima comparing love to a ladder after Alcibiades’s raves on drunkenly. For 10 points, Plato’s Symposium is one of many dialogues featuring what philosopher’s namesake “method”? ■END■
| 2025 PLAYTIME Online | 04/26/2025 | Y | 9 | 100% | 22% | 0% | 94.67 |
| 2024 PLAYTIME @ Harvard | 04/26/2025 | Y | 4 | 100% | 25% | 50% | 108.75 |
| 2024 PLAYTIME @ Virginia Tech | 07/11/2025 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 101.00 |
| 2024 PLAYTIME @ UBC | 10/05/2024 | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 106.25 |
| 2024 PLAYTIME @ WashU | 10/12/2024 | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 109.83 |
| 2024 PLAYTIME @ JHU | 10/26/2024 | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 13% | 119.75 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ Sheffield | 12/10/2024 | Y | 1 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 96.00 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ Northwest | 12/10/2024 | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 107.50 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ Claremont | 12/10/2024 | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 113.80 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ Florida | 12/10/2024 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 117.50 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ Florida | 12/10/2024 | Y | 1 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 114.00 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ CWRU | 12/10/2024 | Y | 5 | 100% | 20% | 20% | 108.60 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ Sheffield | 12/10/2024 | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 114.33 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alex Jiang | Brown | Lexington | 36 | -5 |
| Brendan Bethlehem | Cambridge | Warwick B | 50 | -5 |
| James McCurley | Harvard | Brandeis | 60 | 15 |
| Roxanne Tang | Ohio State A | Ohio State B | 60 | -5 |
| Liam Mooney | Mike Dukakis Tank Battalion | Trip-Hop Quizzer Tricky | 60 | 15 |
| Ariel Faeder | Pittsburgh | Oberlin | 71 | 15 |
| Max Lin | we need new names | Mahjonng Masters | 79 | 15 |
| Aditya Shivaswamy | Johns Hopkins A | CWRU | 81 | -5 |
| Nathaniel Hull | Egypt Airlines Haters | Free Agents 1 | 83 | 10 |
| Darren Kellis | Quatumvirate | Notre Dame + Epic Games | 92 | 10 |
| Ian Tullis | Art of Premature Signaling | Caltech | 96 | 10 |
| Alan Kappler | Claremont B | Claremont A | 96 | 10 |
| Cade Reinberger | RIT | MIT | 96 | -5 |
| Dexter Hine | Simon Fraser | UBC | 96 | 10 |
| Jonathan Shauf | Even in Blacksburg There I Am | Adrianne Lenker 4 Nobel Lit Prize 2K65 | 96 | 10 |
| Vasa Clarke | Somehow Paula Deen Returned | Master and Margaritaville | 96 | 10 |
| Jay Kim | Chicago B | Illinois C | 96 | 10 |
| Theodor Martin | WashU Charmander | Illinois B | 96 | 10 |
| Matthew Bucek | George Mason A | George Mason C | 96 | 10 |
| Zaid Asif | NYU C | Maryland B | 96 | 10 |
| William Bao | Illinois Orange | Four Generalists in Search of a Power | 96 | 10 |
| Abdelrahman Elsisi | Sheffield A | Sheffield B | 96 | 10 |
| Andy Huff | LSE | Imperial A | 96 | 10 |
| Robert Crawley | Warwick A | Lancaster | 96 | 10 |
| Padraig Finan | Washington Connections | Arizona State University A | 96 | 10 |
| Hazel DePreist-Sullivan | evil women enjoyers | Monsieur Hulot's Academic Team | 96 | 10 |
| Teddy Fogel | Birmingham | Imperial B | 96 | 10 |
| Liam Markland | Alberta | UW A | 97 | 10 |
| Jared He | Waterloo A | Mac A | 98 | 10 |
| Rohan Navaneetha | Ohio State D | Ohio State C | 99 | 10 |
| Ryan Smith | mongeese | 2 Italians, 2 Poles, All Noles | 99 | 10 |
| Todd Maslyk | Michigan A | Michigan B | 99 | 10 |
| Kunaal Chandrashekar | Toronto A | Toronto D | 99 | 10 |
| Micah Colman | Waterloo B | Waterloo C | 100 | 10 |
| James O'Reilly | Arizona State University B | South Dakota School of Mines | 100 | 10 |
| Eren Michelet | BU | Belmont | 101 | 10 |
| Ishan Joshi | Toronto Metropolitan | Toronto E | 101 | 10 |
| Akshar Goyal | Illinois A | Missouri | 101 | 10 |
| Ryan Happel | SIUE | WashU Squirtle | 101 | 10 |
| Gareth Thorlakson | Toronto B | Guelph | 101 | 10 |
| Ethan Furman | Haverford A | Rutgers | 107 | 10 |
| Matt Weiner | Ashurbanipal’s Drag Race | 4 quizbowl pros go Virginia on North Carolina | 111 | 10 |
| Will McCurley | Auburn 2026 | Gruh | 111 | 10 |
| Payton Chung | girl 15 whale i mean they | P.C.‚ Daniel‚ Michel‚ and Jason B | 112 | 10 |
| Tracy Mirkin | Edwin Laundrorat's Long-Lost Man Unclothès Rat Degrosses | Too much from you lately | 113 | 10 |
| Leo Law | Project2025BC: Make Assyria Great Again | Keeping Up With the Cardassians | 114 | 10 |
| Elie Aoun | CWRU | Johns Hopkins A | 121 | 10 |
| Nick Edwards | McGill A | Ottawa A | 121 | 10 |
| Seth Kendall | Billy's Bastion | Qin Shi Huang's Immortality Poison | 122 | 10 |
| Kai Madgwick | Manchester | Sheffield C | 124 | 10 |
| Freddie O’Hara | UCLA A | UCLA B | 131 | 10 |
| Conor Thompson | Iowa State | Chicago A | 131 | 10 |
| Isaac Mammel | Maryland A | Georgetown | 131 | 10 |
| David Allen | Edinburgh | Warwick C | 132 | -5 |
| Connor Rankin | UCSD | UCSB | 134 | 10 |
| Sky Li | Toronto C | McGill B | 134 | 10 |
| Fred Garvey | Truman State | WashU Bulbasaur | 134 | 10 |
| Kevin He | Johns Hopkins B | Haverford B | 134 | 10 |
| Dillon George | Catholic University of America | George Mason B | 136 | 10 |
| Pradyumna Krishna | MSJ | Goober Gang | 136 | 10 |
| Alvan Hossein | Lexington | Brown | 137 | 10 |
| Yrwin Batan | MIT | RIT | 137 | 10 |
| Matthew Lam | Ohio State B | Ohio State A | 137 | 10 |
| Nate Kang | NYU B | George Washington | 137 | 10 |
| Josh Howarth | Warwick B | Cambridge | 137 | 10 |
| Cameron Ricketts | Warwick C | Edinburgh | 137 | 10 |
| Zhiheng Liu | Michigan C | Michigan D | 137 | 0 |
| Daniel Huang | Michigan D | Michigan C | 137 | 10 |
| Sasha Fillbrandt | UW B | Carleton | 137 | 10 |