This condition is compared to an ox who “thinks he’s for saddle fit” and a stutterer who “fancies his talent is speaking” in a poem about an argument between a doctor and his “dearest Betty.” A woman in one poem notices this condition in a man when she “draws her Fingers back” and finds “beneath the Verdant Leaves a Snake.” In that poem, this condition causes a man to “Curst his Birth, his Fate, his Stars” after a nymph leaves him. Lady (*) Montagu claimed that Jonathan Swift was trying to hide his suffering from this condition by blaming how “Celia, Celia, Celia shits!” in her response to Swift’s poem “The Lady’s Dressing Room.” Lysander laments being “Damn’d” to the “Hell” of this condition in Aphra Behn’s poem “The Disappointment.” For 10 points, name this condition, which Horner fakes to seduce women in the play The Country Wife. ■END■
| 2025 Chicago Open | 2025-08-09 | Y | 12 | 92% | 42% | 25% | 100.64 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jaimie Carlson | The True Dharma Eye of the Juan Soto School | Will They Ever Finish Bruckner’s Ninth Boulevard? | 60 | 15 |
| Anderson Wang | One Microscopic Pog in His Chat-astrophic Plan | The Met on Laserdisc. Bravo! | 62 | 15 |
| Jordan Brownstein | I worship the Pyramid (abandoned Soviet coal mining settlement on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard) | Enjoying the Hole Experience | 71 | 15 |
| William Golden | Mumbo Jumbo Will Labubu | Broken Socal Scene | 75 | 15 |
| Iain Carpenter | Thamos, King of Egypt: The Sahara of the Mozart | Woke Michael Du be like "I'm a genders player" | 75 | -5 |
| Matt Bollinger | BHSU B | It's not X, but... defenders | 78 | 15 |
| Henry Atkins | No, explaining that your buzz came from watching an isekai is not "Proustian" | Do re mi fa serving negs | 95 | 10 |
| Eric Bobrow | 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 2k5, RNBQKBNR b Q - 99 66 | Li Bai Chocolate Mushussu Pacha Latte | 95 | -5 |
| Rob Carson | BHSU X | "Real quiz bowl" only consists of the ACF academic pyramidal scene and the late 2010s NAQT scene. | 100 | 10 |
| Tracy Mirkin | Floridovician | Please sir, may I have some morb? | 108 | -5 |
| Rahul Keyal | The RAND Coöperation | "real numbers are uncountable" factoid actually just statistical error. diagonal georg | 129 | 10 |
| Halle Friedman | Big is moving to Evanston! | Halifax Shipping Services | 143 | 10 |
| Alvin Guo | Please sir, may I have some morb? | Floridovician | 147 | 0 |
| Shahar Schwartz | Li Bai Chocolate Mushussu Pacha Latte | 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 2k5, RNBQKBNR b Q - 99 66 | 147 | 10 |
| Mattias Ehatamm | Woke Michael Du be like "I'm a genders player" | Thamos, King of Egypt: The Sahara of the Mozart | 147 | 10 |