Question
In a play, a gay character representing this figure wins “Most Likely to Take it Up the Hershey Highway.” For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this religious figure whose death is depicted in Passion Plays. Lew Wallace’s novel Ben-Hur opens with this figure’s birth in Bethlehem and is subtitled “A Tale of’ this figure.
ANSWER: Jesus Christ [or Jesus Christ; accept Jesus Christ Superstar]
[10h] This author wrote about Joshua, who represents Jesus, in his play Corpus Christi. This author wrote about the Broadway choreographer Gregory Mitchell and his friends during the AIDS epidemic in Love! Valour! Compassion!
ANSWER: Terrence McNally
[10m] This playwright was part of a counterprotest against complaints from a Catholic group before a production of Corpus Christi. A play by this author is split into the sections “Millennium Approaches” and “Perestroika.”
ANSWER: Tony Kushner (The play is Angels in America.)
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Summary
| 2023 ACF Winter @ Columbia | 11/11/2023 | Y | 9 | 17.78 | 100% | 67% | 11% |
Data
| Columbia A | Yale C | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Penn B | Haverford | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Princeton B | Penn A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Rowan A | Columbia C | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Rutgers A | Princeton A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Rutgers B | Yale A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Cornell C | Vassar | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Yale B | NYU B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Columbia B | Bard A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |