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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| Joseph Chambers | Virginia A | UNC B | 74 | 10 |
| Arya Karthik | Oxford A | Imperial A | 74 | 10 |
| Aum Mundhe | Rutgers A | Columbia C | 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 |
| Anne Fjeld | Alberta | UW A | 87 | 10 |
| Michael Wu | Southampton B | Bristol | 87 | 10 |
| Chris Levesley | Warwick A | Cambridge D | 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 |
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| Aidan Jones | Liberty A | UNC C | 133 | 0 |
| Miller Doerr | Liberty B | UNC D | 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 |
| Hrishit Chaudhuri | NYU B | Vassar A | 133 | 0 |
| Vedh Ramesh | Penn B | NYU A | 133 | 0 |
| Max Hodes | Chicago D | Illinois C | 133 | 0 |
| Sriram Koritala | Illinois C | Chicago D | 133 | 0 |
| Chris Yoo | William & Mary | South Carolina | 133 | 0 |
| Robert Freeman | South Carolina | William & Mary | 133 | 0 |
| Ned Tagtmeier | Chicago A | Indiana A | 133 | 10 |
| Eren Michelet | BU | UMass Boston | 133 | 0 |
| Christopher Sims | Northwestern A | Iowa | 133 | 10 |
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| Ben Horning | Georgetown B | Notre Dame B | 133 | 0 |
| Noah McRedmond | Notre Dame B | Georgetown B | 133 | 0 |
| Kai Madgwick | Manchester | Cambridge B | 133 | 0 |
| Josh Howarth | Warwick B | Cambridge E | 133 | 0 |
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| Isaac Mammel | Maryland A | Penn A | 133 | 0 |
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