Question

In a play by this author, a man accidentally reveals his affair with a “blonde on a train” while talking to his lover Josie. In another play by this author, a man states that he once boarded a ship bound for Buenos Aires in speech (-5[1])where he states his wish to have been born as a “seagull or a fish.” The protagonist of a play by this author threatens to sell his land to T. Steadman Harder and evict Phil Hogan. In a play by this author, a (*) Swinburne-quoting (-5[1])character constantly refills his father’s whiskey bottle with water. This author’s play A Moon for the Misbegotten is a sequel to his play about a family whose matriarch has an addiction to morphine which troubles her tuberculosis-afflicted (10[1])son Edmund. For 10 (10[1])points, name this playwright who created the Tyrone family for Long Day’s (10[1])Journey into Night. ■END■ (0[1])

ANSWER: Eugene O’Neill [or Eugene Gladstone O'Neill]
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Raymond WangCornell EarthRochester C44-5
Nathan ZhangCornell WindRIT88-5
Forrest WeintraubColumbia Ly-αRochester B12510
Ryan XuCornell FireRochester A12910
Cade ReinbergerRITCornell Wind14110
Archita AmudhanRochester CCornell Earth1450

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