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 |
| Kevin Liu | Maryland B | Rutgers A | 90 | 10 |
| Chris Dech | Brandeis A | Bowdoin A | 90 | 10 |
| Jared He | Waterloo A | Brock | 93 | -5 |
| Ben LaFond | Cambridge B | Durham | 93 | 10 |
| Sean Gao | Toronto E | Toronto Metropolitan | 96 | 10 |
| Yusuf Baig | McMaster B | UBC B | 96 | -5 |
| Ben Hellman | Swarthmore | Johns Hopkins A | 96 | 10 |
| Ryan Rosenberg | NYU A | Maryland C | 96 | -5 |
| Mehmet Tatoglu | Oxford A | LSE | 96 | 10 |
| Rachel Fanous | Michigan B | Michigan C | 97 | 10 |
| Charlotte Bauer | McGill B | Toronto F | 97 | -5 |
| 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 |
| Eli Young | Vassar | Catholic | 105 | 10 |
| Hiten Umarnani | Imperial C | Bristol | 105 | 10 |
| James O'Reilly | Arizona State | UCSD C | 110 | 10 |
| Yashwanth Bajji | Michigan A | Pittsburgh | 110 | 10 |
| Matthew Wang | UBC A | Waterloo B | 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 |
| Matthew Forster | Dartmouth A | Bowdoin B | 116 | 10 |
| Chloe Chow | Harvard B | Dartmouth 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 |
| Jesse Chusing | Ottawa | Toronto C | 143 | 10 |
| Yoyo Liu | UBC B | McMaster B | 143 | 10 |
| Milan Fernandez | Brock | Waterloo A | 143 | 10 |
| Jerry Vinokurov | John Jay | Maryland A | 143 | 10 |
| Gus Vanskike | Maryland C | NYU A | 143 | 10 |
| Surya Dinesh | MIT | Harvard A | 143 | 10 |