A play by this author ends with a man repeating Othello’s line “goats and monkeys” as the curtain bowls into the other on-stage characters. That “speech-drama” by this author features a masked title character who repeats “I want to be someone like somebody else once was” before being “corrected” by offstage Prompters and encountering his five clones. This author borrowed Ionesco’s term “anti-play” for a work in which four speakers ask audience members not to blink or salivate during a routine in which they repeatedly insist they are not acting. This playwright of (*) Kaspar and Offending the Audience co-wrote a screenplay in which angels listen to the thoughts of alienated Berliners. For 10 points, name this Austrian winner of the 2019 Nobel who collaborated with Wim Wenders on Wings of Desire and The Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick. ■END■
| 2025 Chicago Open | 2025-08-09 | Y | 12 | 100% | 33% | 8% | 101.50 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Matt Bollinger | BHSU B | The Met on Laserdisc. Bravo! | 21 | 15 |
| Stephen Liu | Will They Ever Finish Bruckner’s Ninth Boulevard? | It's not X, but... defenders | 77 | 15 |
| Alvin Guo | Please sir, may I have some morb? | 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 2k5, RNBQKBNR b Q - 99 66 | 80 | 15 |
| James Orefice | Enjoying the Hole Experience | Mumbo Jumbo Will Labubu | 89 | 15 |
| Mitch McCullar | Thamos, King of Egypt: The Sahara of the Mozart | No, explaining that your buzz came from watching an isekai is not "Proustian" | 89 | -5 |
| Andrew Hart | BHSU X | Floridovician | 97 | 10 |
| Ani Perumalla | The RAND Coöperation | I worship the Pyramid (abandoned Soviet coal mining settlement on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard) | 97 | 10 |
| Guy Indorante | Big is moving to Evanston! | Do re mi fa serving negs | 117 | 10 |
| Jason Cheng | Broken Socal Scene | Li Bai Chocolate Mushussu Pacha Latte | 121 | 10 |
| Adrian Wong | Woke Michael Du be like "I'm a genders player" | One Microscopic Pog in His Chat-astrophic Plan | 121 | 10 |
| Joel Miles | "real numbers are uncountable" factoid actually just statistical error. diagonal georg | "Real quiz bowl" only consists of the ACF academic pyramidal scene and the late 2010s NAQT scene. | 122 | 10 |
| Charles Young | Halifax Shipping Services | The True Dharma Eye of the Juan Soto School | 137 | 10 |
| Henry Atkins | No, explaining that your buzz came from watching an isekai is not "Proustian" | Thamos, King of Egypt: The Sahara of the Mozart | 139 | 10 |