An author from this family created a character who struggles to explain the phrase “when nature’s out” to a man who throws a cat at him to demonstrate the subject-object distinction. A writer from this family wrote the tract that Bazarov forces into Arkady’s hands in Fathers and Sons. Thinkers from this family wrote Women and Their Vocation and Kraft und Stoff. In a play by a member of this family, a showman advertises a learnèd, defecating horse that stamps its hoof to tell the time. Klaus Kinski swims in a dark (*) pond in Werner Herzog’s adaptation of a play by a member of this family that features additions like the direction “he drowns.” In that fragmentary play by a member of this family, a doctor forces a diet of peas on the title jealous soldier. For 10 points, what German family included the revolutionary playwright of Woyzeck? ■END■
| 2025 Chicago Open | 2025-08-09 | Y | 10 | 90% | 20% | 20% | 111.56 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jordan Brownstein | I worship the Pyramid (abandoned Soviet coal mining settlement on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard) | 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 2k5, RNBQKBNR b Q - 99 66 | 48 | 15 |
| Matt Bollinger | BHSU B | Thamos, King of Egypt: The Sahara of the Mozart | 48 | 15 |
| Shahar Schwartz | Li Bai Chocolate Mushussu Pacha Latte | BHSU X | 85 | -5 |
| Ani Perumalla | The RAND Coöperation | "Real quiz bowl" only consists of the ACF academic pyramidal scene and the late 2010s NAQT scene. | 96 | -5 |
| Mattias Ehatamm | Woke Michael Du be like "I'm a genders player" | Halifax Shipping Services | 108 | 10 |
| Lou Leere | Big is moving to Evanston! | The True Dharma Eye of the Juan Soto School | 109 | 10 |
| James Orefice | Enjoying the Hole Experience | Floridovician | 113 | 10 |
| John Lawrence | Will They Ever Finish Bruckner’s Ninth Boulevard? | One Microscopic Pog in His Chat-astrophic Plan | 134 | 10 |
| Matt Lafer | The Met on Laserdisc. Bravo! | Do re mi fa serving negs | 148 | 10 |
| Andrew Hart | BHSU X | Li Bai Chocolate Mushussu Pacha Latte | 148 | 10 |
| Connor Mayers | "Real quiz bowl" only consists of the ACF academic pyramidal scene and the late 2010s NAQT scene. | The RAND Coöperation | 148 | 0 |
| William Golden | Mumbo Jumbo Will Labubu | "real numbers are uncountable" factoid actually just statistical error. diagonal georg | 148 | 10 |