Question
In a play by this author, Hermione tells Cleone that she “loved” Pyrrhus “too much not to hate him,” before asking Orestes to kill him. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this author who also wrote a play in which a queen falls in love with Theseus’s son despite his love for the princess Aricia.
ANSWER: Jean Racine [or Jean-Baptiste Racine]
[10e] Racine’s only comedy, The Litigants, adapts this Greek author’s play The Wasps.
ANSWER: Aristophanes
[10h] A Racine character with this job poisons his stepbrother and abducts his stepbrother’s fiancée. Grace Frick translated a novel in which a character with this job tells Mark about wanting to “seduce everyone and everything, even History.”
ANSWER: Roman emperor [prompt on politician or ruler] (The Racine play is Britannicus. The novel is Memoirs of Hadrian.)
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Summary
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Berkeley | 01/27/2024 | Y | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 67% | 33% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ JMU | 01/27/2024 | Y | 7 | 11.43 | 100% | 14% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Minnesota | 01/27/2024 | Y | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 0% | 50% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Nebraska | 01/27/2024 | Y | 4 | 10.00 | 75% | 25% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Ohio State | 01/27/2024 | Y | 1 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Rutgers | 01/27/2024 | Y | 5 | 18.00 | 100% | 80% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Imperial | 01/27/2024 | Y | 7 | 12.86 | 100% | 29% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Vanderbilt | 01/27/2024 | Y | 4 | 15.00 | 100% | 25% | 25% |
Data
| Columbia A | Haverford | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Johns Hopkins | Vassar | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| John Jay | NYU B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Penn | NYU A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Columbia B | Rowan | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |