Question
Terry Eagleton’s book Tragedy likens this character to the “monster lurking in the center of the symbolic order” in a chapter on a play’s arithmetical subtext. A fragment of a lost satyr play by Aeschylus calls this character a “Watch-dog that presideth over evil days.” In Robert Fagles’s translation, a man says he stopped this character “With no help from the birds” as “the flight of [his] own intelligence hit the mark.” A man repeatedly counts to fifty after this character calls herself the “singing bitch” and dons the head of Anubis in Jean Cocteau’s The Infernal Machine. This character casts herself upon the rocks after being bested by a man who had killed a king at a triple crossroads. For 10 points, name this non-human character who asks what being walks upon four, then two, then three legs while presenting Oedipus with a riddle. ■END■
Summary
2025 ACF Nationals | 04/19/2025 | Y | 24 | 100% | 0% | 71% | 131.13 |
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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Ned Tagtmeier | Chicago A | Rutgers | 47 | 10 |
Patrick Torre | Maryland | Columbia B | 91 | -5 |
Maude-Sophie Lockman | Ottawa | Waterloo B | 97 | -5 |
Tony Chen | Toronto A | Stanford | 97 | -5 |
Michael Kearney | Harvard | Toronto B | 97 | -5 |
Thomas Tibbetts | UCF | Cornell B | 98 | -5 |
Bryan Ugaz | Arizona State | UC Berkeley B | 99 | -5 |
Albert Yingzhi Nyang | LSE | British Columbia | 99 | -5 |
Foster Hughes | Minnesota | Chicago B | 99 | 10 |
Matt Schiavone | Northwestern | WUSTL A | 101 | -5 |
Jisoo Yoo | Texas | Cornell A | 104 | -5 |
Eve Fleisig | UC Berkeley A | Waterloo A | 105 | -5 |
Amogh Kulkarni | Georgia State | Yale | 113 | 10 |
Andrew Wang | Illinois A | Indiana | 115 | 10 |
Jim Fan | North Carolina A | Columbia A | 117 | 10 |
Nathan Sheffield | MIT | Toronto C | 119 | -5 |
Mitch McCullar | Penn State | WUSTL B | 119 | -5 |
Noah Chin | Virginia Tech | Iowa State | 122 | -5 |
Gavin Markoff | Vanderbilt | Winona State | 122 | -5 |
Soren Heydari | North Carolina B | Ohio State | 123 | -5 |
Joseph Chambers | Virginia | Michigan | 124 | -5 |
Cade Reinberger | RIT | Illinois B | 125 | 10 |
Qingyu Zhang | Florida | NYU | 126 | 10 |
Kevin Wang | Georgia Tech | Johns Hopkins | 126 | -5 |
John John Groger | WUSTL B | Penn State | 131 | 10 |
Shourjo Ganguli | Ohio State | North Carolina B | 132 | 10 |
Kevin Peng | Cornell B | UCF | 133 | 10 |
Vinu Harihar | UC Berkeley B | Arizona State | 138 | 10 |
Michał Gerasimiuk | Stanford | Toronto A | 139 | 10 |
Aditya Shivaswamy | Johns Hopkins | Georgia Tech | 141 | 10 |
Todd Maslyk | Michigan | Virginia | 141 | 10 |
Russell Nip | British Columbia | LSE | 145 | 10 |
Nathan Zhang | Cornell A | Texas | 145 | 10 |
Conor Thompson | Iowa State | Virginia Tech | 145 | 10 |
Marcus Forbes-Green | Toronto C | MIT | 145 | 10 |
William Groger | Columbia B | Maryland | 145 | 10 |
Caleb Ott | Waterloo B | Ottawa | 145 | 10 |
Wenying Wu | Toronto B | Harvard | 145 | 10 |
Mattias Ehatamm | Waterloo A | UC Berkeley A | 145 | 10 |
Neal Joshi | WUSTL A | Northwestern | 145 | 10 |
Henry Bon | Winona State | Vanderbilt | 145 | 10 |