A play by this author featuring only male characters was restaged under the title Paradise with an all-female cast by Kae Tempest in 2021. A deus ex machina occurs in that play by this author when a deified Heracles convinces a character with a festering snakebite wound to go back to Troy with Neoptolemus. A play by this author ends with the chorus quoting Solon’s indictment to “count no man happy” until he is dead. This playwright of Philoctetes wrote about a man who is told by the blind seer Tiresias that he caused a plague by killing his predecessor at a crossroad. The title character of the first play in a cycle by this author gouges out his eyes upon finding the hanged body of his wife and mother, Jocasta. For 10 points, name this ancient Greek tragedian of Oedipus Rex. ■END■
| 2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley | 04/19/2025 | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 25% | 119.50 |
| 2025 ACF Nationals | 2025-08-09 | Y | 14 | 100% | 0% | 29% | 108.86 |
| Florida | Main | Y | 13 | 92% | 0% | 8% | 106.58 |
| Great Lakes | Main | Y | 6 | 50% | 0% | 33% | 115.33 |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | Main | Y | 7 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 79.14 |
| Midwest | Main | Y | 10 | 100% | 0% | 20% | 94.40 |
| North | Main | Y | 10 | 100% | 0% | 30% | 107.60 |
| Northeast | Main | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 101.40 |
| California | Main | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 83.40 |
| Pacific Northwest | Main | Y | 12 | 100% | 0% | 25% | 97.67 |
| South Central | Main | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 96.40 |
| Southeast | Main | Y | 12 | 75% | 0% | 33% | 91.56 |
| UK | Main | Y | 4 | 75% | 0% | 25% | 88.00 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | Main | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 25% | 99.00 |
| Upstate NY | Main | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 13% | 91.88 |
| Overflow | Main | Y | 4 | 75% | 0% | 50% | 111.00 |
| Canada | Main | Y | 1 | 100% | 0% | 100% | 142.00 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Owen Arneson | Missouri A | William Woods | 18 | -5 |
| Lovel Hearn | Edinburgh B | Sheffield B | 18 | -5 |
| Collin Leck | UCO | Iowa | 26 | -5 |
| Ethan Enochian | Purdue C | Louisville B | 31 | -5 |
| Anthony Xu | Amherst A | BC B | 41 | -5 |
| James McCurley | Harvard | Tufts B | 43 | 10 |
| Rahul Rao-Pothuraju | Rowan A | Princeton A | 45 | 10 |
| Abdelrahman Elsisi | Sheffield A | Manchester A | 45 | -5 |
| Darren Kellis | Vanderbilt B | Bruin A | 46 | 10 |
| Paige Crawley | Oxford A | Bristol A | 46 | 10 |
| Ariel Faeder | Pitt A | OSU D | 47 | 10 |
| Sky Li | Toronto A | Toronto D | 51 | -5 |
| Michał Gerasimiuk | Stanford A | Berkeley D | 53 | 10 |
| Josh Schmidt | Liberty A | Virginia B | 53 | 10 |
| Wesley Stine | Clemson A | North Carolina B | 53 | 10 |
| Wyatt Roder | Georgetown A | George Washington A | 53 | -5 |
| Justin Hawkins | Indiana A | Michigan B | 53 | 10 |
| Arthur Bellamy | Oxford B | Cambridge B | 53 | -5 |
| Ben LaFond | Cambridge A | Southampton A | 53 | 10 |
| Mattias Ehatamm | Maryland A | Maryland C | 56 | 10 |
| Meredith Wiper | CWRU A | OSU A | 57 | 10 |
| Vivian Malouf | Berkeley A | Berkeley F | 58 | 10 |
| Hadley Green | Northwestern B | Alberta B | 58 | 10 |
| Cade Reinberger | RIT B | Rochester | 71 | 10 |
| Joseph Chambers | Virginia A | South Carolina A | 72 | 10 |
| Evan Gniadek | Purdue A | Michigan A | 74 | 10 |
| Andrew Harms | MSU A | Kenyon A | 75 | 10 |
| Ethan Burks | Huntsville B | Alabama A | 76 | -5 |
| Ian Saylor | Wisconsin | Macalester A | 77 | 10 |
| Dexter Hine | Simon Fraser | British Columbia D | 77 | 10 |
| Tate Osborne | Auburn A | Huntsville A | 77 | 10 |
| Sean Gao | Toronto K | Toronto I | 78 | 10 |
| Christopher Dech | Brandeis Wilson | Dartmouth | 78 | 10 |
| Matteo Fronduti | Durham A | Warwick B | 78 | 10 |
| Jacob Finley | Notre Dame A | Chicago A | 79 | 10 |
| Snehan Saroch | Louisville A | Notre Dame D | 81 | -5 |
| Nathan Sheffield | MIT A | BU | 82 | -5 |
| Blake Johnson | BC A | Amherst B | 82 | -5 |
| Sharath Narayan | Northwestern A | Texas A | 84 | 10 |
| Bryan Ugaz | Arizona State A | Northwestern C | 85 | 10 |
| Jesse Chusing | Ottawa | Toronto B | 89 | 10 |
| Theodor Martin | WashU D | Truman State | 89 | 10 |
| Jisoo Yoo | Texas B | Tulsa | 89 | 10 |
| Michael Xu | McMaster C | Toronto H | 90 | 10 |
| Yusuf Baig | McMaster A | Guelph A | 90 | 10 |
| Adithya Parat | McMaster B | Toronto E | 90 | 10 |
| Angelo Pan | CWRU B | CWRU D | 90 | 10 |
| Shourjo Ganguli | OSU C | Pitt B | 90 | 10 |
| Jim Fan | North Carolina A | Tusculum | 90 | 10 |
| Sayan Chandaroy | UMBC A | Maryland D | 90 | 10 |
| Ankit Kawade | Johns Hopkins C | Johns Hopkins B | 90 | 10 |
| Samuel Lipsutz | Chicago C | Chicago B | 90 | 10 |
| Sam Alahi | Illinois B | Chicago D | 90 | 10 |
| Kennedy Gallaher | Notre Dame C | Notre Dame B | 90 | 10 |
| Alan Fan | Washington B | British Columbia B | 90 | 10 |
| Doug Frederick | Auburn B | Georgia Tech D | 90 | 10 |
| Alex Wyrick | Tennessee A | Virginia Tech B | 91 | 10 |
| Tyler Turnpaugh | Georgetown B | Johns Hopkins A | 92 | 10 |
| Omkar Marathe | Columbia A | Swarthmore A | 93 | 10 |
| Rohan Vittal | Brown A | Yale A | 93 | 10 |
| Graham Lucas | Bowdoin B | Brandeis Orlando | 93 | 10 |
| Nelson Adams-Riley | Sewanee A | Alabama B | 94 | 10 |
| Ryan Fang | Stanford B | Berkeley E | 95 | 10 |
| Ryan Lee | Brown C | Bowdoin A | 95 | 10 |
| Eric Zhu | Cornell-UG | Brown B | 95 | 10 |
| Emerson Patmore | Georgia Tech C | Georgia Tech B | 95 | 10 |
| Tianyu Xu | Georgia Tech A | UAB A | 95 | 10 |
| Puna Ekka | Minnesota A | Nebraska | 96 | 10 |
| James Ferrabee | McGill D | Rose State | 96 | 10 |
| Gavin Markoff | Vanderbilt A | Mississippi State A | 96 | 10 |
| Prahalad Rao | OSU B | Kenyon B | 97 | 10 |
| John McQueen | South Carolina B | Liberty B | 97 | 10 |
| Davis Johnson | Purdue B | Michigan D | 97 | 10 |
| Kevin Yang | Illinois C | Kentucky | 97 | 10 |
| Sasha Fillbrandt | Washington A | British Columbia A | 97 | 10 |
| Rayhana Amjad | Edinburgh A | Cambridge C | 97 | 10 |
| Henry Nonnemaker | CWRU C | Pitt C | 98 | 10 |
| Noah McRedmond | Notre Dame E | George Mason A | 98 | -5 |
| Nathaniel Hull | Berkeley B | Stanford C | 99 | 10 |
| Eshan Pant | NYU A | VCU A | 99 | 10 |
| Milo Scanlon | Macalester B | Minnesota B | 99 | 10 |
| Brendan Bridle | Queen's A | Carleton | 100 | 10 |
| Nihal Anand | UTD A | Ohio | 100 | 10 |
| John Cha | Tufts A | Brandeis Clemenceau | 101 | 10 |
| Albert Nyang | LSE A | Imperial A | 101 | 10 |
| Abhinav Rachakonda | UCLA A | UCLA D | 102 | -5 |
| Matthew Evans | UF B | FSU | 102 | 10 |
| Abbott Sherwin | NC State | Clemson B | 102 | -5 |
| Vivian Adolph | North Carolina C | James Madison | 102 | -5 |
| Emily Kadolph | Virginia Tech A | Tennessee B | 102 | 10 |
| Justine Hopkins | Liberty C | Roanoke | 102 | 10 |
| Anubhav Kamath | George Mason C | George Washington B | 102 | 10 |
| Zaid Asif | NYU B | Penn A | 102 | -5 |
| Alexander Wong | Rutgers B | Columbia C | 102 | 10 |
| Ryan Hppel | SIUE | Missouri B | 102 | 10 |
| Arjun Kala | Illinois A | UIC | 102 | 10 |
| Connor King | St. Thomas | Minnesota C | 102 | 10 |
| Sidarth Erat | MIT B | Yale B | 102 | 10 |
| Gus Redding | Imperial B | Imperial C | 102 | -5 |
| Sam Eddon | Cambridge D | Manchester B | 102 | 10 |
| Jacob Taylor | Bristol B | City St George's A | 102 | 10 |
| Pranaav Senthilkumar | Cornell-DII | Syracuse | 102 | -5 |
| Ishan Joshi | Toronto Metropolitan | Toronto G | 105 | 10 |
| Logan Mathis | WashU A | WashU C | 105 | -5 |
| Teddy Fogel | Birmingham A | Warwick A | 105 | 10 |
| Zoe Wang | Carleton | Iowa State | 108 | 10 |
| Aatreyo Bhattacharyya | Berkeley C | UCSC | 112 | 10 |
| Ethan Young | Williams | Brandeis Lloyd George | 112 | -5 |
| Zaire Gibbons | Toronto J | Toronto F | 114 | 10 |
| Christophe Savoie | UF C | Melbourne A | 115 | -5 |
| Justin Drees | Notre Dame D | Louisville A | 116 | 10 |
| Sarah Khan | Queen's B | Guelph B | 119 | 10 |
| Valentina Chamandy | McGill A | Toronto C | 120 | 10 |
| Anna Barker | UCF A | UF D | 120 | 10 |
| Margaret Withers | George Mason B | Catholic University | 122 | 10 |
| Peyton Legg | UCF B | FIU | 124 | -5 |
| Mateo Acosta | FIU | UCF B | 124 | 10 |
| Jacob Peitz | BC B | Amherst A | 124 | 10 |
| Liam Markland | Alberta | British Columbia C | 124 | -5 |
| Will Hoover | RIT A | ESF | 124 | 10 |
| Sophia Peng | Rutgers C | Columbia B | 129 | 10 |
| Amiya Zope | UTD B | Arizona State B | 130 | -5 |
| Rufus Gladwell | Durham B | Sheffield C | 130 | 10 |
| Lauren Edgar | Lehigh B | Vassar A | 138 | 10 |
| Owen Ashbrook | Iowa | UCO | 138 | 10 |
| Nermeen Rahman | Indiana B | Michigan C | 140 | -5 |
| Eva Lettiere | George Washington A | Georgetown A | 141 | 10 |
| Carlos Gonzalez | Syracuse | Cornell-DII | 141 | 10 |
| Krishay Garg | UCLA D | UCLA A | 142 | 10 |
| Henry Siegler | Toronto D | Toronto A | 142 | 10 |
| Nabhaan Farooqi | McGill B | McGill C | 142 | 0 |
| Ella Tang | McGill C | McGill B | 142 | 0 |
| Yash Modi | Western Ontario | Waterloo | 142 | 10 |
| Addison Wiggins | USF | ERAU A | 142 | 0 |
| Gavin Littrell | ERAU A | USF | 142 | 0 |
| Eve Gaspich | Melbourne B | ERAU B | 142 | 0 |
| Kathleen Perez | ERAU B | Melbourne B | 142 | 0 |
| Asheton Wilbanks | Clemson B | NC State | 142 | 10 |
| Jonah Chancio | James Madison | North Carolina C | 142 | 10 |
| Matthew Bucek | George Mason A | Notre Dame E | 142 | 10 |
| Anirudh Bharadwaj | Penn A | NYU B | 142 | 10 |
| Alex Dzurick | William Woods | Missouri A | 142 | 0 |
| Conner Yamnitz | WashU C | WashU A | 142 | 10 |
| Roo Tapia | Louisville B | Purdue C | 142 | 10 |
| Matthew Wozniak | Michigan C | Indiana B | 142 | 10 |
| Hanson Huynh | BU | MIT A | 142 | 0 |
| Luc Vulliez | Amherst B | BC A | 142 | 0 |
| Andrew Messersmith | Brandeis Lloyd George | Williams | 142 | 0 |
| Kevin Wang | British Columbia C | Alberta | 142 | 0 |
| Rae Meyers | Arizona State B | UTD B | 142 | 10 |
| Britton Webster | Alabama A | Huntsville B | 142 | 10 |
| Kai Madgwick | Manchester A | Sheffield A | 142 | 10 |
| CT Tang | Sheffield B | Edinburgh B | 142 | 10 |
| Phillip Jordan | Imperial C | Imperial B | 142 | 10 |
| Antara Bhattacharya | Cambridge B | Oxford B | 142 | 10 |
| Emily Andrews | LSE B | Southampton B | 142 | 10 |
| Andrew Miller | Binghamton A | Binghamton B | 142 | 10 |