Spain - 2023 ACF Nationals

Question

In this modern-day country, a form of religious theater whose name translates as “sacramental play” was performed on two-story wagons during Corpus Christi. For 10 points each:

[10e] Name this European country where plays emphasizing the power of the Catholic Church were prevalent during its 16th- and 17th-century “Golden Age.”

ANSWER: Spain [or Kingdom of Spain; or Reino de España; accept Spanish Golden Age]

[10h] Autos sacramentales during the Spanish Golden Age were preceded by these brief prologues. A Latin American author wrote an allegory in this form in which Religion spares two Aztecs named America and Occident during the Spanish conquest of Mexico.

ANSWER: loas [accept Loa to Divine Narcissus, Loa to the Divine Narcissus, Loa to the Auto Sacramental of Divine Narcissus, or Loa para el divino narciso] (The author was Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz.)

[10m] This Golden Age dramatist and Catholic monk wrote more than 80 plays, but is now best known for originating the story of Don Juan in The Trickster of Seville and the Stone Guest.

ANSWER: Tirso de Molina [or Gabriel Téllez; prompt on de Molina]

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Summary


2023 ACF Nationals	04/22/2023	Y	24	14.17	88%	54%	0%

Data


Georgia Tech A	Chicago A	10	10	20
Claremont A	Penn State A	0	0	0
Columbia B	UC Berkeley B	10	0	10
Florida A	Ohio State A	10	10	20
Harvard A	MIT A	10	10	20
Indiana A	Columbia A	10	10	20
Yale B	Iowa State A	10	0	10
Chicago B	Maryland A	10	0	10
Georgia Tech B	McGill A	10	0	10
Michigan A	Vanderbilt A	0	10	10
Rutgers B	Minnesota B	0	0	0
NYU A	Florida B	10	10	20
North Carolina A	Minnesota A	10	10	20
Purdue A	Imperial A	10	10	20
Stanford A	Duke A	10	10	20
Toronto A	UC Berkeley A	10	0	10
South Carolina A	WUSTL B	10	0	10
Brown A	Yale A	10	0	10
Northwestern A	Chicago C	10	10	20
Cornell A	WUSTL A	10	10	20
Texas A	Cornell B	10	10	20
Houston A	Johns Hopkins A	10	0	10
Rutgers A	Illinois A	10	10	20
Virginia A	Penn A	10	0	10