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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 (-5[1])after admitting that MacGregor (10[1])had sex with his sister-in-law (10[1])Jessie. In this play, the boxer Joey is criticized for not going “the whole hog” (10[1])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■ (0[3])

ANSWER: The Homecoming
<Literature - British Literature - Drama>
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Tony ChenSimpson Agonistes: The Crisis of DonutI'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up 108-5
Mattias EhatammYou cannot go to Aarhus to see his peat-brown head / With eyes like ripening fruitModerator Can't Neg me While in Alpha11210
Caleb OttTensei Shitara Flashcard Data Kenas rational as the square root of two power bottoms11710
Raymond ChenShe Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA InterfereCommunism is Soviet power plus the yassification of the whole country13210
Jack van NostrandRyan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan QuizbowlersThe Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork Orange1570
Adrian WongThe Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork OrangeRyan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan Quizbowlers1570
Erik ChristensenI'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up Simpson Agonistes: The Crisis of Donut1570

Summary

2024 ARGOS @ Stanford02/22/2025Y3100%67%0%77.00
2024 ARGOS @ McMaster11/17/2024Y560%0%20%120.33
2024 ARGOS @ Chicago11/23/2024Y6100%0%0%138.17
2024 ARGOS @ Columbia11/23/2024Y3100%0%33%133.33
2024 ARGOS @ Christ's College12/14/2024Y367%33%0%80.50