Question

The Voice narrates the prologue of a play in this language that tells the spectator to watch the “perfect” title object “unwind the entire span of a human life.” In that play in this language, Anubis and the Sphinx wait for the third trumpet call together. In a play in this language, a man gives birth to over 40,000 children in an afternoon and his wife, whose breasts float away like (15[1])balloons, renames herself Tiresias. A dog named Puff features in a 20th-century update of (*) Antigone written in this language, which was also used for a play in which the antagonist Zeus sends the title creatures after Orestes, (10[1])titled The Flies. A woman uses a paper knife to stab Inèz in a play in this language which claims that “Hell is other people.” For 10 points, name this language used to write the play No Exit. ■END■

ANSWER: French [or Français] (The first two plays are Jean Cocteau’s The Infernal Machine and Guillaume Apollinaire’s The Breasts of Tiresias.)
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Richard NiuCornell RCornell MATLAB7015
Sanjeev UppaluriSyracuse+RochesterRIT10710