Packet N: Bonus 4
While acting in this play, Ralph Richardson asked the audience, “is there a doctor in the house?”, and when a doctor raised his hand, Richardson said “terrible play, isn’t it doctor?” and resumed acting. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this play that premiered in 1966 after its author’s murder by his lover Kenneth Halliwell. At the end of this play, a sergeant wearing a dress descends from a skylight and asks for a politician’s “missing parts.”
ANSWER: What the Butler Saw (by Joe Orton)
[10e] Peter Hall directed Ralph Richardson and John Gielgud (“GHEEL-good”) in this author’s play No Man’s Land. This playwright wrote The Birthday Party and The Dumb Waiter.
ANSWER: Harold Pinter
[10m] Gielgud and Richardson also starred together in David Storey’s play Home, which is set in this sort of place. The frame stories of Peter Weiss’s Marat/Sade and Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s The Physicists occur in these places.
ANSWER: mental asylums [or sanatoriums; or insane asylums; or psychiatric hospitals; or mental hospitals; prompt on hospitals]
<AP, British Literature> | Packet-N_Chicago-C_George-Washington-A_Georgia-Tech-B_McMaster_Minnesota-A_Ohio-State-B_Texas-A
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 40 | 11.75 | 80% | 33% | 5% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicago A | Indiana A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Chicago B | WashU B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Illinois B | Illinois A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Illinois C | Chicago D | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Missouri S&T | Indiana B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| WashU A | Missouri | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | ✓ | 6 | 11.67 | 83% | 17% | 17% |
| Midwest | 2025-02-01 | ✓ | 6 | 13.33 | 83% | 50% | 0% |
| Northeast | 2025-02-01 | ✓ | 4 | 5.00 | 25% | 25% | 0% |
| Overflow | 2025-02-01 | ✓ | 4 | 17.50 | 100% | 75% | 0% |
| Pacific Northwest | 2025-02-01 | ✓ | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| UK | 2025-02-01 | ✓ | 10 | 11.00 | 90% | 10% | 10% |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | ✓ | 8 | 11.25 | 75% | 38% | 0% |