A character in this play complains about using sheets that he believes smells like his friend’s “pong.” A woodworker states “you haven’t got any interests” to a man who admires the stripes on crockery in this play. In this play, a “deficient ballcock” leads a man to worry about why a toilet takes so long to fill. This play opens with a character reading an article about an (*) 87 year old man crawling under a lorry. A character who reads “Scampi” on a note in this play stumbles on stage stripped of his gun and some of his clothes at its end. An argument about whether to say “light the kettle” or “put on the kettle” ensues after an envelope with a dozen matches is slid under the door in this play. The hitmen Ben and Gus await orders via the title device in, for 10 points, what play by Harold Pinter? ■END■
| 2025 PLAYTIME Online | 04/26/2025 | Y | 9 | 100% | 78% | 0% | 65.44 |
| 2024 PLAYTIME @ Harvard | 04/26/2025 | Y | 4 | 100% | 50% | 0% | 79.75 |
| 2024 PLAYTIME @ Virginia Tech | 07/11/2025 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 67% | 137.00 |
| 2024 PLAYTIME @ UBC | 10/05/2024 | Y | 8 | 100% | 38% | 0% | 90.88 |
| 2024 PLAYTIME @ WashU | 10/12/2024 | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 17% | 97.67 |
| 2024 PLAYTIME @ JHU | 10/26/2024 | Y | 7 | 86% | 14% | 14% | 98.50 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ Northwest | 12/10/2024 | Y | 4 | 100% | 25% | 25% | 115.50 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ Claremont | 12/10/2024 | Y | 5 | 100% | 20% | 20% | 123.20 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ Florida | 12/10/2024 | Y | 3 | 100% | 33% | 67% | 108.33 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ CWRU | 12/10/2024 | Y | 5 | 100% | 60% | 0% | 93.60 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ Sheffield | 12/10/2024 | Y | 6 | 83% | 0% | 17% | 110.00 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carter Pisocky | Michigan B | Ohio State C | 47 | 15 |
| Braden Booth | Missouri | Chicago B | 52 | -5 |
| Anne Fjeld | Alberta | Arizona State University A | 54 | -5 |
| Tracy Mirkin | Edwin Laundrorat's Long-Lost Man Unclothès Rat Degrosses | Too much from you lately | 56 | 15 |
| Parth Jagtap | Toronto A | Toronto B | 56 | 15 |
| Caleb Ott | Waterloo B | Toronto Metropolitan | 56 | 15 |
| Padraig Finan | Washington Connections | UW A | 56 | 15 |
| Daniel Merida | Four Generalists in Search of a Power | Egypt Airlines Haters | 56 | 15 |
| Henry Bylinowski | Auburn 2026 | Goober Gang | 56 | 15 |
| Pradyumna Krishna | MSJ | Illinois Orange | 56 | 15 |
| Chris Yoo | Mahjonng Masters | mongeese | 56 | 15 |
| Victor Prieto | Monsieur Hulot's Academic Team | Gruh | 56 | 15 |
| Eshan Pant | NYU A | Rutgers | 56 | 15 |
| Vivian Malouf | girl 15 whale i mean they | Art of Premature Signaling | 58 | 15 |
| Rayton Lin | Waterloo C | Toronto E | 59 | 15 |
| Jacob Finley | Notre Dame + Epic Games | Free Agents 1 | 59 | 15 |
| Kevin Zheng | Michigan A | Ohio State B | 62 | 15 |
| Ariel Faeder | Pittsburgh | Ohio State D | 65 | 15 |
| Yrwin Batan | MIT | Belmont | 66 | 15 |
| Joy An | Harvard | Brown | 67 | 15 |
| Hazel DePreist-Sullivan | evil women enjoyers | Mike Dukakis Tank Battalion | 67 | 15 |
| Arav Kaushik | we need new names | Trip-Hop Quizzer Tricky | 68 | 10 |
| Fred Garvey | Truman State | Illinois A | 70 | 10 |
| Ethan Furman | Haverford A | Maryland B | 70 | 10 |
| Shishir Bharadwaj | Lexington | Brandeis | 71 | 10 |
| Arthur Gayden | Chicago A | WashU Squirtle | 72 | 10 |
| Zaid Asif | NYU C | Johns Hopkins A | 72 | -5 |
| Nick Edwards | McGill A | Toronto C | 75 | 10 |
| Noah Chin | Even in Blacksburg There I Am | Ashurbanipal’s Drag Race | 75 | -5 |
| Mikey Brown | Birmingham | Sheffield C | 75 | 10 |
| Jason | Jason B | Claremont B | 83 | -5 |
| Neal Joshi | WashU Bulbasaur | SIUE | 86 | 10 |
| Lucas Johns | Warwick A | Sheffield B | 86 | 10 |
| Emily Bussa | Maryland A | George Mason B | 93 | 10 |
| Kai Madgwick | Manchester | Sheffield A | 101 | 10 |
| Vincent Du | 4 quizbowl pros go Virginia on North Carolina | Master and Margaritaville | 110 | -5 |
| Cole Hennessy | Qin Shi Huang's Immortality Poison | Billy's Bastion | 110 | -5 |
| Jay Kim | Chicago B | Missouri | 111 | 10 |
| Neal Joshi | WashU Bulbasaur | Chicago B | 111 | 10 |
| Kevin Ye | Simon Fraser | Waterloo A | 112 | 10 |
| Eli Issokson | Georgetown | NYU B | 113 | 10 |
| Hayden Prather | Project2025BC: Make Assyria Great Again | Keeping Up With the Cardassians | 115 | -5 |
| Cade Reinberger | RIT | Boston University | 115 | 10 |
| Halee Carey | Mac A | UBC | 115 | 10 |
| Karthik Jayaram | Quatumvirate | 2 Italians, 2 Poles, All Noles | 115 | 10 |
| Jesse Chusing | Ottawa A | McGill B | 116 | 10 |
| Bryan Ugaz | Arizona State University A | Alberta | 117 | 10 |
| Matthew Andersen | Keeping Up With the Cardassians | Project2025BC: Make Assyria Great Again | 118 | 10 |
| Andrew Nucci | UCLA B | UCSB | 119 | 10 |
| Aditya Shivaswamy | Johns Hopkins A | NYU C | 119 | 10 |
| Jim Fan | Master and Margaritaville | 4 quizbowl pros go Virginia on North Carolina | 123 | 10 |
| Ryan Rosenberg | Adrianne Lenker 4 Nobel Lit Prize 2K65 | Somehow Paula Deen Returned | 136 | 10 |
| James Horsley | Iowa State | Illinois B | 136 | 10 |
| Andre Wong | LSE | Lancaster | 136 | 10 |
| Amir Dolansky | Toronto D | Guelph | 138 | 10 |
| Percy Yuen | Cambridge | Imperial A | 138 | -5 |
| Sasha Fillbrandt | UW B | South Dakota School of Mines | 139 | 10 |
| Sai Subramanian | CWRU | George Mason C | 140 | 10 |
| Ivan Karp | UCLA A | Caltech | 142 | 10 |
| Varun Sathyajeeth | Ohio State A | Michigan D | 142 | 10 |
| Gary Lin | UCSD | Claremont A | 146 | 10 |
| John Hines-Shah | Carleton | Arizona State University B | 150 | 10 |
| Scarlet | Claremont B | Jason B | 151 | 10 |
| Billy Beyer | Billy's Bastion | Qin Shi Huang's Immortality Poison | 151 | 10 |
| Sam Matson | Ashurbanipal’s Drag Race | Even in Blacksburg There I Am | 152 | 10 |
| Eugenia Tong | Imperial A | Cambridge | 152 | 0 |
| Josh Howarth | Warwick B | Warwick C | 152 | 10 |
| Elijah Quan | Michigan C | Oberlin | 152 | 10 |
| Dillon George | Catholic University of America | George Washington | 152 | 0 |
| Luis D'Olhaberriague | George Washington | Catholic University of America | 152 | 0 |