Question

The town idiot Temugedege (“teh-MOO-geh-DAY-gay”) is too stupid to realize why he was selected to be this sort of person in John Pepper Clark’s adaptation of the Ijaw (“EE-jaw”) Ozidi Saga. Odewale becomes one of these people in Ola Rotimi’s (10[1])The Gods are Not to Blame, (-5[1])which is based (10[1])on an earlier play (10[1])titled for a man with this role. (-5[1])One of these people who (-5[1])“did not hang” titles the best-known play by Duro Ladipo. (10[1])Hearing of the approaching burial of a man who had this role reminds another man that he had paid (10[1])for (-5[1])Olunde (-5[1])to go (10[1])to medical school in (10[1])England. (10[1]-5[1])Before (10[1])the action of a play, the death of a man with this role prompts (-5[1])Elesin (10[1]-5[1])to (10[1])begin (10[1]-5[1])a ritual suicide (-5[1])before he is imprisoned by the colonial administrator (10[1])Simon Pilkings. For 10 points, a Wole Soyinka play (10[1])is titled for Death (10[2])and what (10[1])sort (10[1]-5[1])of leader’s “horseman?” (10[2]-5[1])■END■ (10[10]0[1])

ANSWER: kings [or oba; accept The King Did Not Hang; accept Oedipus Rex or Oedipus the King; accept Ọba kò so; reject “king’s horseman” or “horseman”]
<TH, World Literature>
= Average correct buzz position

Summary

California2025-02-01Y3100%0%67%105.33
Lower Mid-Atlantic2025-02-01Y6100%0%17%138.50
Midwest2025-02-01Y6100%0%50%125.67
Northeast2025-02-01Y4100%0%50%135.50
Pacific Northwest2025-02-01Y1100%0%0%145.00
South Central2025-02-01Y2100%0%100%149.00
Southeast2025-02-01Y1100%0%0%46.00
Upper Mid-Atlantic2025-02-01Y888%0%25%105.14

Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Richard NiuCornell BGeorge Washington A3710
Anuttam RamjiUC Berkeley BClaremont B43-5
Kevin WangGeorgia Tech CBruin A4610
Eve FleisigUC Berkeley AUCLA5010
Noah ChinVirginia Tech AVirginia A57-5
Vikshar AthreyaRutgers ANYU B62-5
Eshan PantNYU AGeorge Washington B7210
William OrrYale AHaverford A9110
Arjun KalaIllinois BIllinois C92-5
Jakob MyersIndiana AMissouri93-5
Nathan SheffieldMIT ABrandeis B9510
Jay KimChicago BIndiana B9910
Claire JonesChicago AMissoui S&T10010
Gus VanskikeMaryland BJohn Jay College100-5
Emily BussaMaryland APenn B10110
Nolan DannelsUCSDClaremont A115-5
Charles HangWashU AChicago C11610
Neal JoshiWashU BChicago D116-5
Kevin ParkClaremont AUCSD11710
Josh SchmidtLiberty ALiberty B11810
Bryan UgazASUTexas B118-5
Jisoo YooTexas ATAMU121-5
Graham TroyUNC BUNC C12910
Ivan StanisavljevicDukeUNC D13810
Owen ArnesonMissouriIndiana A14210
Chauncey LoColumbia CVassar A14210
Ivvone ZhouPenn AHaverford B14410
Mason YuBrown AHarvard B145-5
Yaj JhajhriaUW BAlberta14510
Chris YooWilliam & MaryLiberty C14810
Max HodesChicago DWashU B14810
Kayla DrajpuchBrandeis ADartmouth A148-5
Aidan DeshongClaremont BUC Berkeley B14910
Joseph ChambersVirginia AVirginia Tech A14910
Robert FreemanSouth CarolinaWake Forest14910
Sriram KoritalaIllinois CIllinois B14910
James McCurleyHarvard BBrown A14910
Khugan ChanUMass BostonTufts A14910
William ParocaiDartmouth ABrandeis A14910
Owen GilroyTexas BASU14910
John Luke BroussardTAMUTexas A14910
Jerry VinokurovJohn Jay CollegeMaryland B14910
Rishi SwaminathanNYU BRutgers A1490