In a play titled for this profession, Davenport investigates the murder of a man in Louisiana who cries “they still hate you!” just before dying from a gunshot wound. After hearing that Pope Paul VI is visiting New York City, Ronnie, who has this profession, plots to kill him with a bomb in a play by John Guare (“gwair”). Vernon Waters realizes the futility of his efforts to appeal to white people just before his death in a play titled for this profession by Charles Fuller. In another play, a man with this profession plots to get rich by selling a gold toilet seat he pilfered from a palace belonging to a dictator’s son. The hand of that character with this profession is bitten off by the title animal while he guards its cage. For 10 points, Kev and Tom have what profession in Rajiv Joseph’s play Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo? ■END■
ANSWER: soldiers [accept military officials; accept sergeants; accept U.S. Army or G.I.s; accept Marines or U.S. Marine Corps; accept A Soldier’s Play; prompt on officers or captains] (The John Guare play is The House of Blue Leaves.)
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