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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| Michael Kearney | Harvard A | MIT A | 51 | -5 |
| Jakob Myers | Indiana A | Chicago A | 67 | -5 |
| Nathan Sheffield | MIT A | Harvard A | 72 | 10 |
| Arya Karthik | Oxford A | Imperial A | 74 | 10 |
| Andrew Fisher | Sheffield | Cambridge C | 74 | -5 |
| Aum Mundhe | Rutgers A | Columbia C | 74 | 10 |
| Joseph Chambers | Virginia A | UNC B | 74 | 10 |
| 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 |
| Chris Levesley | Warwick A | Cambridge D | 87 | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Johanna Bryant | Liberty C | Duke | 133 | 0 |
| Aidan Jones | Liberty A | UNC C | 133 | 0 |
| Miller Doerr | Liberty B | UNC D | 133 | 0 |
| Eren Michelet | BU | UMass Boston | 133 | 0 |
| Christopher Sims | Northwestern A | Iowa | 133 | 10 |
| Jacob Finley | Notre Dame A | Northwestern B | 133 | 0 |
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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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