Ringaskiddy, a town in southeastern Ireland, has long been known for its production of the active ingredient in this brand-name drug. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this Pfizer-produced drug, which like Revatio contains the active ingredient sildenafil. This brand-name drug is a PDE5 inhibitor used to cause vasodilation and increase blood flow.
ANSWER: Viagra
[10h] Name this Edmond Rostand play in which the title character writes love letters to Roxane because the cadet Christian is too shy to approach her.
ANSWER: Cyrano de Bergerac
[10h] This Danish pharmaceutical company had planned a new factory in Dublin, but pulled out in 2025. You may have heard The Greatest Showman’s “This is Me” advertising this company’s Wegovy or Ozempic GLP-1 agonists.
ANSWER: Novo Nordisk
[10e] Cyrano makes many jokes about this abnormally large feature of his. In the Carlo Collodi novel Pinocchio, this body part of a wooden doll grows when he lies.
ANSWER: the nose [or nez; accept Cyrano’s nose or Pinocchio’s nose]
[10e] Possibly due to tariffs, manufacturing of the anti-cancer drug Keytruda will be moved from Swords, Ireland to this US state. Most Fortune 500 companies are incorporated in this state, which Joe Biden represented in Congress.
ANSWER: Delaware [or DE]
[10m] As Cyrano is dying, his friends lament that this real-life playwright has plagiarized Cyrano’s work. In a work by this playwright, Argan hides underneath a table as a religious fraud attempts to seduce his wife.
ANSWER: Molière [or Jean-Baptiste Poquelin] (The play is Tartuffe.)
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