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Marcantonio Raimondi’s engraving of a seated Raphael was the basis for a painting titled for this substance that critics derided for being a full-length portrait of a rag-picker. This substance titles another painting to which the Victorian critic George Moore gave the moralistic reaction “What a whore!” This substance is beneath the hands of the subject of Picasso’s Blue Period portrait of Angel Fernández de Soto. The painting The Old Musician (-5[1])features the same man in a brown cloak and top hat from a (emphasize) different painting titled for this substance by Edouard Manet. Ellen Andrée (-5[1])(“on-DRAY”) modeled for a painting originally titled Dans un Café (“dawn zun kah-FAY”) in which this substance lies on the table in (10[2])front of an apathetic (10[1])woman in a white blouse. For 10 points, that painting by Edgar Degas is named for what (10[1])pale-green (10[2])liquor? (10[3])■END■

ANSWER: absinthe [accept L’Absinthe or The Absinthe Drinker or Le Buveur d’absinthe; prompt on liquor or alcohol or spirits; reject “wine” or “beer”; prompt on glass by asking “what is in the glass?”]
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Emily Bussa (UG)Maryland B (UG)UNC A (Grad)70-5
Perry O'Connor (Grad)Liberty A (Grad)Liberty C (DII)95-5
Connor Mayers (UG)Maryland A (Grad)JMU B (UG)11310
Michael Eng (UG)UNC C (UG)Liberty B (DII)11310
Andrew Amygdalos (UG)GWU A (UG)Maryland C (DII)11710
Jonathan Shauf (UG)UNC B (UG)Duke A (UG)13410
Eric Gunter (Grad)UNC A (Grad)Maryland B (UG)13510
Carly Hemani (DII)JMU A (UG)Roanoke College A (DII)13510
Vedang Singhal (DII)UNC D (DII)Virginia B (UG)13610
Joseph Chambers (DII)Virginia A (UG)GWU B (Grad)13610
Luke Schaarschuch (UG)Virginia C (UG)William & Mary A (UG)13610