Chicago Open 2008: The End Comes…Beyond the Omega Point  Packet by Andrew Chrzanowski Wants to Fight You
Chicago Open 2008: The End Comes…Beyond the Omega Point  Packet by Andrew Chrzanowski Wants to Fight You About Dragonforce  (Susan Ferrari, Ed Cohn, Andrew Ullsperger)  Tossups  A stage version of this work by Georges Coulogne featured the additional characters of Philosophy and Morality, who comment on the hero's adventures before reappearing as a whore and a playboy. Wearing a nightdress, the title figure defeats a knight wearing his own white armor to demonstrate that the armor belongs to him and not Itobad. Earlier, that title figure had saved the life of Almona by arguing that women be forbidden to kill themselves when their husbands die. This work's protagonist is horrified when his traveling companion, a hermit, drowns a little boy, but the hermit is revealed to be the angel Jesrad, who teaches this figure about evil before sending him to the city. After failing to marry Semire or Azora, the title character becomes king by marrying Astarte.  FTP, name this first philosophical story by Voltaire about a Babylonian hero.
Chicago Open 2008: The End Comes…Beyond the Omega Point  Packet by Andrew Chrzanowski Wants to Fight You
{Zadig} (“Zadig, or the Book of Fate”)