An alternate version of the events of this play is depicted in the Lille Stesichorus, whose most complete fragment is a “Queen’s speech” that occurs after the events of this play. This play never describes a “cryptic song” that causes a group of people to “put aside something we found obscure,” and which a character later describes as overcoming with “wits” instead of “birds.” The “irrationality” of this play is argued to be “outside” the tragedy in Aristotle’s Poetics, which uses this play to explain the structure and superiority of tragedies. In this play, the prophet Tiresias returns an insult by declaring “you have your eyesight, and you do not see” foreshadowing the protagonist’s loss of sight. For 10 points, name this play by Sophocles whose title character discovers he did not escape his fate of marrying his mother and murdering his father. ■END■
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| Canada | Main Site | Y | 11 | 100% | 0% | 36% | 123.18 |
| Great Lakes | Main Site | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 40% | 110.00 |
| Northeast | Main Site | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 20% | 116.20 |
| UK | Main Site | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 102.33 |
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| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| James McCurley | Harvard A | MIT | 30 | -5 |
| Anthony Yin | CWRU B | CWRU A | 78 | 10 |
| Travis Johnson | Pittsburgh | Michigan A | 80 | -5 |
| Paige Crawley | Oxford B | Imperial A | 88 | 10 |
| Chris Dech | Brandeis A | Bowdoin A | 90 | 10 |
| Kevin Liu | Maryland B | Rutgers A | 90 | 10 |
| Jared He | Waterloo A | Brock | 93 | -5 |
| Ben LaFond | Cambridge B | Durham | 93 | 10 |
| Yusuf Baig | McMaster B | UBC B | 96 | -5 |
| Sean Gao | Toronto E | Toronto Metropolitan | 96 | 10 |
| Mehmet Tatoglu | Oxford A | LSE | 96 | 10 |
| Ben Hellman | Swarthmore | Johns Hopkins A | 96 | 10 |
| Ryan Rosenberg | NYU A | Maryland C | 96 | -5 |
| Charlotte Bauer | McGill B | Toronto F | 97 | -5 |
| Rachel Fanous | Michigan B | Michigan C | 97 | 10 |
| Andrew McCowan | Queen's | Toronto G | 99 | 10 |
| Andrew Harms | Michigan State | Ohio State A | 101 | -5 |
| Mattias Ehatamm | Maryland A | John Jay | 101 | -5 |
| Jacob Hardin-Bernhardt | NYU B | Rutgers B | 101 | 10 |
| Nolan Dannels | UCSD A | UCSD B | 105 | 10 |
| Hiten Umarnani | Imperial C | Bristol | 105 | 10 |
| Eli Young | Vassar | Catholic | 105 | 10 |
| James O'Reilly | Arizona State | UCSD C | 110 | 10 |
| Matthew Wang | UBC A | Waterloo B | 110 | 10 |
| Yashwanth Bajji | Michigan A | Pittsburgh | 110 | 10 |
| Oliver West | Cambridge C | Edinburgh B | 110 | 10 |
| Brandon Weiss | Columbia C | NYU C | 111 | 10 |
| Katherine Mack | UC Irvine | UC Santa Barbara | 113 | 10 |
| Matthew Stasiw | Toronto C | Ottawa | 113 | -5 |
| Charles Young | Columbia A | Johns Hopkins B | 113 | 10 |
| Chloe Chow | Harvard B | Dartmouth B | 116 | 10 |
| Matthew Forster | Dartmouth A | Bowdoin B | 116 | 10 |
| Christopher Bradley | Southern Connecticut State | Brandeis B | 116 | 10 |
| Kaiwen Xiao | UCLA A | UCLA B | 119 | 10 |
| Dustin Vali | Western B | Toronto B | 119 | 10 |
| Monica Wang | Guelph | Western C | 119 | 10 |
| Christian Humeniuk | McMaster A | Western A | 121 | 10 |
| Imran Abdul Rahman | UCL | City St. George's | 122 | 10 |
| Hafsa Shaikh | Toronto D | McGill A | 126 | 10 |
| Rohan Navaneetha Raj | Ohio State B | Ohio State C | 127 | 10 |
| Saju Ramraj | Toronto F | McGill B | 136 | 10 |
| Calvin Bostleman | Ohio State A | Michigan State | 138 | 10 |
| Milan Fernandez | Brock | Waterloo A | 143 | 10 |
| Yoyo Liu | UBC B | McMaster B | 143 | 10 |
| Jesse Chusing | Ottawa | Toronto C | 143 | 10 |
| Surya Dinesh | MIT | Harvard A | 143 | 10 |
| Jerry Vinokurov | John Jay | Maryland A | 143 | 10 |
| Gus Vanskike | Maryland C | NYU A | 143 | 10 |