Plautus - 2024 Chicago Open

Question

Macilente claims “I will not do as” this author did in the last line of Every Man out of His Humor, while the first lines of Volpone imitate the “acrostic arguments” attached to this author’s works. In an adaptation of this author, a kitchen maid is compared to a “globe” with France on her forehead, (15[1])Spain on her breath, and Ireland’s (15[1])bogs (15[1])in her buttocks. A character inspired by one of this author’s characters is fended off by “Amazon” maids wielding (15[1])distaffs, pokers, and brooms after Merrygreeke goads him into (*) attacking the widow Dame Custance’s house. One of this author’s title characters inspired the title man of Nicholas Udall’s play Ralph Roister Doister. An adaptation of one of this author’s plays is set in Ephesus and complicates the plot (10[2])by adding two servants (-5[1])named (10[1])Dromio. (10[1]-5[3])For 10 points, what author of Miles Gloriosus (10[1])inspired The (10[1])Comedy (-5[1])of Errors with his play Menaechmi? ■END■ (10[4]0[1])

ANSWER: Plautus [or Titus Maccius Plautus]

<JB, British Literature>

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Summary


2024 Chicago Open	07/28/2024	Y	15	93%	27%	33%	119.43

Buzzes

Player	Team	Opponent	Buzz Position	Value
Matt Jackson	LMM's LLM MLM	I’ll take a quiet 10 / A handshake of CO (Chicago Open)	54	15
Taylor Harvey	sticking out your guyot for the ridge push; you're so seafloor spread, you're so fracture zone	A Nervy Liberal Nanny Hence	60	15
Mitch McCullar	Are You There, Chat? It's Me, Margaret	Lying on a Mattress at Lou’s Apartment in Pilsen, Chicago	61	15
Rob Carson	Punished "Venom" BHSU	The Empire Bikes Back	80	15
Arya Karthik	Charlotte's Moderately Successful Team	Read slowly: A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A Read quickly: A	128	10
Matt Bollinger	BHSU B	The Dyatlov Passement incident	128	10
Christopher Sims	There are buzzable clues everywhere for those with eyes to see	NJTRANSit (and bobby, i guess)	132	-5
Matt Weiner	SAYYID QUTB, DRIVING THE LONGEST CAR YOU’VE EVER SEEN THROUGH TAHRIR SQUARE	Mindgoblin of Little Hobbes	133	10
Stephen Liu	Lisan al-Quib	AMOGH QUIZ HACK? 英雄联盟 400 PPG 24 TUH	134	10
Charles Hang	Les Missourables	The Jeam Team	134	-5
Mike Cheyne	The Oldest Men in the World	Galvanized Square Steen and Eco-Friendly Wood Vermeer	134	-5
Chris Ray	We Need New Names	it's the great pumpkinification objection, charlie brown	134	-5
Eve Fleisig	it's the great pumpkinification objection, charlie brown	We Need New Names	142	10
Ned Tagtmeier	Berkeley Mafia and the Chicago Boy	First Cause, First Cause, make me young!	144	10
Ryan Westbrook	when you look this good, you don’t have to know anything	NJTRANSit (and anwen, I guess)	145	-5
Jeffrey Fung	The Jeam Team	Les Missourables	152	10
Ethan Ashbrook	Galvanized Square Steen and Eco-Friendly Wood Vermeer	The Oldest Men in the World	152	10
Hazel DePriest-Sullivan	NJTRANSit (and bobby, i guess)	There are buzzable clues everywhere for those with eyes to see	152	10
Richard Yu	genAI this, genAI that, have you found your 真爱 yet	var merchants	152	10
Anwen Kelleher	NJTRANSit (and anwen, I guess)	when you look this good, you don’t have to know anything	152	0