This character tells the story of a tax collector who uses robes and a mask to train a lap dog to love the Keeper of the Seals. Lionel Trilling’s Sincerity and Authenticity builds on the use of this character in Phenomenology of Spirit, in which he illustrates the self-estranged “disintegrated soul.” This character froths at the mouth during his increasingly elaborate musical pantomimes, which start with a Locatelli sonata and climax with Jomelli’s Lamentations. In the last line, this character tells “Mister Philosopher” that “the man who’ll laugh last will laugh best” as he dashes off to the opera. This character mocks “wood-pushing” (*) chess players in the Café de la Regence in a text in which his lines are marked with “Lui,” or “Him.” For 10 points, what cynical relative of a Baroque composer titles a dialogue by Denis Diderot? ■END■
| 2025 Chicago Open | 2025-08-09 | Y | 10 | 80% | 10% | 50% | 121.88 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aseem Keyal | Broken Socal Scene | Please sir, may I have some morb? | 48 | -5 |
| Anuttam Ramji | Li Bai Chocolate Mushussu Pacha Latte | The RAND Coöperation | 49 | -5 |
| Matt Bollinger | BHSU B | One Microscopic Pog in His Chat-astrophic Plan | 50 | 15 |
| Lou Leere | Big is moving to Evanston! | Thamos, King of Egypt: The Sahara of the Mozart | 68 | -5 |
| Tracy Mirkin | Floridovician | "Real quiz bowl" only consists of the ACF academic pyramidal scene and the late 2010s NAQT scene. | 98 | -5 |
| Auroni Gupta | BHSU X | Mumbo Jumbo Will Labubu | 107 | 10 |
| Stephen Liu | Will They Ever Finish Bruckner’s Ninth Boulevard? | Woke Michael Du be like "I'm a genders player" | 110 | -5 |
| Mitch McCullar | Thamos, King of Egypt: The Sahara of the Mozart | Big is moving to Evanston! | 134 | 10 |
| Rahul Keyal | The RAND Coöperation | Li Bai Chocolate Mushussu Pacha Latte | 134 | 10 |
| Charles Young | Halifax Shipping Services | The Met on Laserdisc. Bravo! | 136 | 10 |
| Charles Hang | It's not X, but... defenders | Do re mi fa serving negs | 136 | 10 |
| Mattias Ehatamm | Woke Michael Du be like "I'm a genders player" | Will They Ever Finish Bruckner’s Ninth Boulevard? | 138 | 10 |
| Joel Miles | "real numbers are uncountable" factoid actually just statistical error. diagonal georg | 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 2k5, RNBQKBNR b Q - 99 66 | 140 | 10 |
| Kevin Peng | Please sir, may I have some morb? | Broken Socal Scene | 140 | 0 |
| John Marvin | "Real quiz bowl" only consists of the ACF academic pyramidal scene and the late 2010s NAQT scene. | Floridovician | 140 | 0 |