The Entertainer - 2023 ARCADIA

Question

A naked woman holding a bulldog and a trident appears behind this play’s title character as he performs a song about “ordinary blokes,” “Thank God I’m Normal.” For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this play about Archie Rice, a fading music hall star who suffers the deaths of his father Billy and his son Mick.

ANSWER: The Entertainer

[10e] The Entertainer was written by John Osborne at the request of this actor. This iconic British stage actor appeared in blackface for a film version of Othello and had a French last name.

ANSWER: Laurence Olivier

[10m] The director of The Entertainer’s premiere, Tony Richardson, called Archie “the embodiment of a national mood” in his memoir titled for this sort of person. Smith defies the governor of his borstal in an Alan Sillitoe story titled for this sort of person.

ANSWER: long-distance runner [accept The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner; prompt on runner or athlete]

<HG, British Literature>

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Summary


2023 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley	Premiere	Y	2	10.00	50%	50%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at Carleton University	Premiere	Y	3	16.67	67%	67%	33%
2023 ARCADIA at Claremont Colleges	Premiere	Y	1	20.00	100%	0%	100%
2023 ARCADIA at Duke	Emory, Duke, Yale	Y	3	6.67	33%	33%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at Emory	Emory, Duke, Yale	Y	4	5.00	50%	0%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at Imperial	Imperial	Y	5	16.00	100%	60%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at Indiana	Premiere	Y	5	12.00	80%	40%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at Maryland	Maryland, Online	Y	3	13.33	67%	67%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at Ohio State	Ohio State, Texas	Y	3	3.33	0%	33%	0%
2023 ARCADIA Online	Maryland, Online	Y	3	13.33	67%	67%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at RIT	Premiere	Y	2	15.00	0%	100%	50%
2023 ARCADIA at Texas	Ohio State, Texas	Y	3	10.00	67%	33%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at WUSTL	Premiere	Y	3	16.67	67%	100%	0%

Data


Berkeley B	Berkeley A	0	10	10	20
Berkeley C	Stanford A	0	0	0	0
Toronto Ray Of Sun in the Sky	McDouble West-Carleton	10	0	10	20
Ottawa A	Waterloo	0	10	10	20
Ottawa B	Ottawa C	0	10	0	10
OSU A	Kenyon B	0	0	10	10
Kenyon A	Michigan A	0	0	0	0
Ohio State B	Michigan B	0	0	0	0
MSU A and Friend	Boston College	0	10	10	20
Farrellmagnetism	Arizona State	0	10	10	20
Chicago A	Notre Dame B	0	10	10	20
Chicago B	Notre Dame A	0	0	0	0
Illinois A	Purdue A	0	10	10	20
Vanderbilt	Illinois B	0	10	0	10
Indiana	Purdue B	0	10	0	10
Georgetown	George Washington B	0	0	0	0
Johns Hopkins	George Washington A	0	10	10	20
Maryland A	Maryland B	0	10	10	20
Claremont	I will play anything with a buzzer in front of me	10	10	0	20
NC State	James Madison A	0	0	0	0
South Carolina A	North Carolina A	0	10	10	20
South Carolina B	North Carolina B	0	0	0	0
Emory A	Georgia B	0	0	0	0
Georgia Tech A	Georgia Tech D	0	0	0	0
Georgia Tech B	Georgia Tech C	0	10	0	10
Georgia A	Tennessee A	0	10	0	10
Birmingham	Imperial A	0	10	0	10
Bristol	Edinburgh	0	10	10	20
Durham	Cambridge A	0	10	10	20
Oxford	Imperial B	0	10	10	20
Cambridge B	Warwick	0	10	0	10
Zen and the Art of Buzzing	Ganon Evans Fan Club	0	0	0	0
Cornell MATLAB	Syracuse+Rochester	0	0	10	10
Cornell R	RIT	10	0	10	20
Texas C	TAG Magnet: Taylor's Version	0	0	0	0
HCC	TAMU	0	10	0	10
Texas A	Texas B	0	10	10	20
Missouri A	Missouri B	0	10	10	20
Squidward Community College	SIUE	0	0	10	10
WUSTL XYZ	WUSTL H2O	0	10	10	20