Question

When this character realizes he has torn up a photo of his wife, a stage instruction compares the ensuing silence to “the room of a dying man where people hold their breath.” In a play, this man recalls leaving his hometown with the help of a loan from Mollie Arlington, the madame of a hooker shop. (10[1])A miserable birthday party is compared to “the second feast of Belshazzar, with [this character] to do the writing on the wall!” This man bullies an old friend into taking a “walk around the ward” that is cut short when (10[1])that friend pretends he was nearly run over by a car. (-5[1])A 45-minute-long monologue by this character explains his wife’s loving (-5[1])acceptance (10[1])of his affairs drove him (-5[1])to kill her. (10[1]-5[1])After this character is arrested, (10[1])Larry Slade snaps (10[1]-5[1])and orders (10[2]-5[1])Don Parritt to jump off (-5[1])a fire escape. (10[1]-5[1])For 10 points, (-5[1])name this (-5[1])salesman (-5[1])awaited by the regulars of Harry (-5[1])Hope’s bar in Eugene O’Neill’s play The Iceman (-5[1])Cometh. ■END■ (10[5]0[3])

ANSWER: Hickey [or Theodore Hickman; or Theodore Hickman]
<American Literature>
= Average correct buzz position

Summary

2023 ACF Nationals04/22/2023Y2361%0%57%135.21

Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Benjamin McAvoy-BickfordPenn ASouth Carolina A5510
Kevin YeUC Berkeley BMichigan A9510
Justin ChenNYU APurdue A106-5
Henry CafaroChicago CCornell B116-5
Amogh KulkarniChicago BYale A11710
S. A. ShenoyGeorgia Tech BPenn State A122-5
Tracy MirkinFlorida AMaryland A125-5
Quynh PhungPurdue ANYU A12510
Wenying WuToronto ANorthwestern A13010
Karsten RynearsonYale BClaremont A133-5
David BassVirginia AMcGill A13310
Neal JoshiWUSTL BIllinois A13510
Eve FleisigUC Berkeley AHarvard A13510
Morgan BozemanMinnesota BFlorida B135-5
Andrew ZengStanford AWUSTL A140-5
Raymond WangCornell AChicago A14310
Chris RayOhio State AGeorgia Tech A143-5
Joel MilesMinnesota AIndiana A146-5
Jim FanNorth Carolina ATexas A148-5
Seth EbnerJohns Hopkins ARutgers B149-5
Gavin MarkoffVanderbilt AImperial A155-5
John BroussardHouston AColumbia B163-5
Matthew LehmannWUSTL AStanford A16510
Caleb KendrickMaryland AFlorida A16510
Collin AceRutgers BJohns Hopkins A16510
Jerry LinDuke ABrown A1650
Ricky LiMIT AColumbia A1650
Jisoo YooTexas ANorth Carolina A16510
Matt BollingerGeorgia Tech AOhio State A16510
Walter ZhangBrown ADuke A1650