Question
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■
Summary
Lower Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 33% | 0% | 0% | 83.50 |
Midwest | 2025-02-01 | Y | 5 | 80% | 0% | 20% | 96.25 |
Northeast | 2025-02-01 | Y | 2 | 50% | 0% | 50% | 72.00 |
Overflow | 2025-02-01 | Y | 4 | 50% | 0% | 0% | 105.50 |
Pacific Northwest | 2025-02-01 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 82.50 |
UK | 2025-02-01 | Y | 10 | 60% | 0% | 10% | 99.50 |
Upper Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | Y | 8 | 38% | 0% | 25% | 92.33 |
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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 |
Joseph Chambers | Virginia A | UNC B | 74 | 10 |
Andrew Fisher | Sheffield | Cambridge C | 74 | -5 |
Arya Karthik | Oxford A | Imperial A | 74 | 10 |
Aum Mundhe | Rutgers A | Columbia C | 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 |
Anne Fjeld | Alberta | UW A | 87 | 10 |
Chris Levesley | Warwick A | Cambridge D | 87 | 10 |
Michael Wu | Southampton B | Bristol | 87 | 10 |
Richard Niu | Cornell B | Yale A | 87 | 10 |
Ryan Rosenberg | NYU A | Penn B | 87 | -5 |
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 |
Robert Freeman | South Carolina | William & Mary | 133 | 0 |
Aidan Jones | Liberty A | UNC C | 133 | 0 |
Miller Doerr | Liberty B | UNC D | 133 | 0 |
Johanna Bryant | Liberty C | Duke | 133 | 0 |
Chris Yoo | William & Mary | South Carolina | 133 | 0 |
Max Hodes | Chicago D | Illinois C | 133 | 0 |
Ned Tagtmeier | Chicago A | Indiana A | 133 | 10 |
Sriram Koritala | Illinois C | Chicago 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 |
Stephen Walsh | Northwestern B | Notre Dame A | 133 | 0 |
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 |
Eliza Dean | Oxford B | Southampton A | 133 | 10 |
Jacob Hardin-Bernhardt | NYU C | Imperial B | 133 | 0 |
Ian McDowell | Cambridge C | Sheffield | 133 | 0 |
Louis Cameron | Cambridge E | Warwick B | 133 | 0 |
Benjamin Watson | Oxford C | Durham | 133 | 10 |
Sasha Wertime | Haverford B | George Washington B | 133 | 0 |
Hrishit Chaudhuri | NYU B | Vassar A | 133 | 0 |
Anirudh Bharadwaj | Penn A | Maryland A | 133 | 0 |
Vedh Ramesh | Penn B | NYU A | 133 | 0 |
Audrey Cho | Haverford A | Johns Hopkins A | 133 | 0 |
Isaac Mammel | Maryland A | Penn A | 133 | 0 |