A picaresque novel by this author features the laughing baboon Bosse-de-Nage (“boss-duh-NAHZH”) as a companion to a doctor of a field that “explains the universe supplementary to this one.” W. B. Yeats lamented, “after us, the Savage God” after seeing a play by this author whose protagonist frequently swears “by my green candle.” This author started staging one of his plays with marionettes after an uproar at its premiere over the title character’s exclamation of “merde!” (“maird”) with an extra R. This author invented the “science of imaginary solutions,” ’pataphysics. Sequels titled for a man “Cuckolded” and “in Chains” follow a send-up of Macbeth by this author in which the title king goes to war with Russia after he usurps the throne of Poland. For 10 points, name this absurdist French author of Ubu Roi ■END■
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| Nathan Sheffield | MIT A | Harvard A | 72 | 10 |
| Joseph Chambers | Virginia A | UNC B | 74 | 10 |
| Aum Mundhe | Rutgers A | Columbia C | 74 | 10 |
| Arya Karthik | Oxford A | Imperial A | 74 | 10 |
| Andrew Fisher | Sheffield | Cambridge C | 74 | -5 |
| Andrew Wang | Illinois A | Illinois B | 78 | 10 |
| Michał Gerasimiuk | Stanford B | Purdue | 78 | 10 |
| Russell Nip | UBC | UW B | 78 | 10 |
| Neal Joshi | WashU B | Chicago B | 81 | 10 |
| Agnijo Banerjee | Cambridge A | LSE | 83 | 10 |
| Richard Niu | Cornell B | Yale A | 87 | 10 |
| Ryan Rosenberg | NYU A | Penn B | 87 | -5 |
| Michael Wu | Southampton B | Bristol | 87 | 10 |
| Chris Levesley | Warwick A | Cambridge D | 87 | 10 |
| Anne Fjeld | Alberta | UW A | 87 | 10 |
| Noah Chin | Virginia Tech A | Wake Forest | 93 | 10 |
| Charles Hang | WashU A | Missouri | 93 | 10 |
| Sinecio Morales | Johns Hopkins A | Haverford A | 96 | -5 |
| Jack Rado | Columbia B | Maryland B | 116 | 10 |
| Johanna Bryant | Liberty C | Duke | 133 | 0 |
| Aidan Jones | Liberty A | UNC C | 133 | 0 |
| Miller Doerr | Liberty B | UNC D | 133 | 0 |
| Chris Yoo | William & Mary | South Carolina | 133 | 0 |
| Robert Freeman | South Carolina | William & Mary | 133 | 0 |
| Max Hodes | Chicago D | Illinois C | 133 | 0 |
| Sriram Koritala | Illinois C | Chicago D | 133 | 0 |
| Ned Tagtmeier | Chicago A | Indiana A | 133 | 10 |
| Sasha Wertime | Haverford B | George Washington B | 133 | 0 |
| Audrey Cho | Haverford A | Johns Hopkins A | 133 | 0 |
| Isaac Mammel | Maryland A | Penn A | 133 | 0 |
| Anirudh Bharadwaj | Penn A | Maryland A | 133 | 0 |
| Hrishit Chaudhuri | NYU B | Vassar A | 133 | 0 |
| Vedh Ramesh | Penn B | NYU A | 133 | 0 |
| Kai Madgwick | Manchester | Cambridge B | 133 | 0 |
| Josh Howarth | Warwick B | Cambridge E | 133 | 0 |
| Louis Cameron | Cambridge E | Warwick B | 133 | 0 |
| Jacob Hardin-Bernhardt | NYU C | Imperial B | 133 | 0 |
| Eliza Dean | Oxford B | Southampton A | 133 | 10 |
| Benjamin Watson | Oxford C | Durham | 133 | 10 |
| Ian McDowell | Cambridge C | Sheffield | 133 | 0 |
| Eren Michelet | BU | UMass Boston | 133 | 0 |
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| Ben Horning | Georgetown B | Notre Dame B | 133 | 0 |
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