Question
One character in this play relates how he met “a certain lady” by the docks who made a “certain proposal,” leading him to punch her and contemplate murdering her. A character in this play calls the others “objects” who can’t maintain “intellectual equilibrium” or understand his philosophical works. In a sexually-charged scene in this play, a woman asks a man to lie down so she can pour a glass of water down his throat. This play’s first line, “What have you done with the scissors?”, appeared in the author’s head before he wrote the play according to his (*) Nobel lecture “Art, Truth & Politics.” In this play, Sam collapses after admitting that MacGregor had sex with his sister-in-law Jessie. In this play, the boxer Joey is criticized for not going “the whole hog” with his brother’s wife Ruth. For 10 points, Teddy and his wife return to his family house in England in what Harold Pinter play? ■END■
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
---|---|---|---|---|
Tony Chen | Simpson Agonistes: The Crisis of Donut | I'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up | 108 | -5 |
Mattias Ehatamm | You cannot go to Aarhus to see his peat-brown head / With eyes like ripening fruit | Moderator Can't Neg me While in Alpha | 112 | 10 |
Caleb Ott | Tensei Shitara Flashcard Data Ken | as rational as the square root of two power bottoms | 117 | 10 |
Raymond Chen | She Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA Interfere | Communism is Soviet power plus the yassification of the whole country | 132 | 10 |
Jack van Nostrand | Ryan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan Quizbowlers | The Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork Orange | 157 | 0 |
Adrian Wong | The Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork Orange | Ryan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan Quizbowlers | 157 | 0 |
Erik Christensen | I'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up | Simpson Agonistes: The Crisis of Donut | 157 | 0 |
Summary
2024 ARGOS @ Stanford | 02/22/2025 | Y | 3 | 100% | 67% | 0% | 77.00 |
2024 ARGOS @ McMaster | 11/17/2024 | Y | 5 | 60% | 0% | 20% | 120.33 |
2024 ARGOS @ Chicago | 11/23/2024 | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 138.17 |
2024 ARGOS @ Columbia | 11/23/2024 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 133.33 |
2024 ARGOS @ Christ's College | 12/14/2024 | Y | 3 | 67% | 33% | 0% | 80.50 |