Question
This play's author played Orgon during the 1669 premiere of its final version. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this play that ends with a deus ex machina ("DAY-uss ex MACK-ih-nuh") as the King orders that the title religious hypocrite be arrested instead of Orgon.
ANSWER: Tartuffe ("tar-TOOF") [or Tartuffe, or the Impostor or Tartuffe, or the Hypocrite or Le Tartuffe, ou l'Imposteur]
[10e] Tartuffe is a play by this author, whose patrons included Louis XIV ("the fourteenth"). This author wrote The School for Wives and The Imaginary Invalid.
ANSWER: Molière ("mohl-YAIR") [or Jean-Baptiste Poquelin]
[10h] The last play in this trilogy, La Mère coupable ("lah mair koo-PAH-bluh"), is subtitled "The Other Tartuffe." The title character exclaims "Just because you are a great nobleman, you think you are a great genius" in the second entry in this Pierre Beaumarchais ("BOH-marsh-ay") trilogy, which was censored throughout Europe.
ANSWER: Figaro trilogy [accept answers indicating a trilogy about Figaro or the Barber of Seville or le Barbier de Séville] (The second entry is The Marriage of Figaro.)
<Literature - European Literature - Drama>
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| Tournament | Edition | Exact Match? | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 PACE NSC | 06/07/2025 | Y | 43 | 22.79 | 102% | 102% | 23% |