Bonus
In a play, a character with this job leads Ivy, Mr. Tremayne, Hester, and Fred Bailey in a scene that personifies the hours of the day as philosophers like Spinoza and Plato. For 10 points each:
[10m] Give this job held by Mr. Fitzpatrick in a play about the Antrobus family. In another play, a character with this job replies, “the saints and the poets, maybe,” to a dead woman’s question.
ANSWER: Stage Manager [prompt on narrators]
[10e] This author included fourth wall-breaking stage managers in his plays The Skin of Our Teeth and Our Town.
ANSWER: Thornton Wilder [or Thornton Niven Wilder]
[10h] The hours are also equated to philosophers in a Wilder play titled [this sort of place] Hiawatha. In another play set in this sort of place, a Black man claims that killing white people “would make us all sane” to a woman who stabs him.
ANSWER: train cars [or subway cars; accept New York City subways; accept metro cars; accept Pullman Car Hiawatha; prompt on cars] (The other play is Dutchman by Amiri Baraka.)
<UW A, American Literature>
| Editions | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 62 | 15.16 | 89% | 42% | 21% |
Conversion
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| California | 2025-02-01 | 3 | 26.67 | 100% | 100% | 67% |
| Florida | 2025-02-01 | 3 | 6.67 | 67% | 0% | 0% |
| Great Lakes | 2025-02-01 | 6 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | 6 | 15.00 | 100% | 33% | 17% |
| Midwest | 2025-02-01 | 6 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
| North | 2025-02-01 | 3 | 23.33 | 100% | 67% | 67% |
| Northeast | 2025-02-01 | 5 | 14.00 | 80% | 40% | 20% |
| Overflow | 2025-02-01 | 5 | 12.00 | 80% | 20% | 20% |
| South Central | 2025-02-01 | 2 | 20.00 | 100% | 50% | 50% |
| Southeast | 2025-02-01 | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
| UK | 2025-02-01 | 10 | 13.00 | 80% | 30% | 20% |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | 7 | 18.57 | 86% | 57% | 43% |
| Upstate NY | 2025-02-01 | 3 | 6.67 | 67% | 0% | 0% |