Round 3: Tossup 15

A poem about this figure in the Harley manuscript suggests intoxicating the hedge warden who arrested him and calls this figure Hubert. Stories about this exiled figure drew on Numbers 15, where a man is stoned for gathering sticks on the Sabbath. While plying Caliban with wine, Stephano asks to be worshipped as this figure, who in medieval comic tradition was a claret-loving patron of drunkards. Although Dante’s Virgil identifies this figure as Cain, Beatrice gives an optical (10[1])explanation of this figure in the Paradiso. (10[1])Depictions of this figure with a small dog and stolen (-5[1])bundle (10[1])of thorns include Starveling’s (10[1])role in Pyramus and Thisbe by the Rude Mechanicals. This European (-5[1])figure’s East Asian equivalent (10[1]-5[1])is typically a rabbit. For 10 (10[1])points, what figure inspired (-5[1])by (10[1])pareidolia (10[1])(“PAIR-uh-DOLE-ee-uh”) is hit (10[2])in the (10[1])eye by a spaceship (10[1])in a Georges (10[1])Méliès (10[2])(“zhorzh mail-YES”) film? (10[1])■END■ (10[3]0[4])

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