George Bernard Shaw - 2024 ACF Fall

Question

In a play by this author, the title character asks Mrs. Baines to refuse a donation given by the whiskey distiller Horace Bodger. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this author who depicted the title character’s engagement to Adolphus Cusins in Major Barbara. He also described Eliza Doolittle’s tutelage under the phonetician Henry Higgins.

ANSWER: George Bernard Shaw

[10e] Eliza Doolittle begins that Shaw play, Pygmalion, selling these items. A William Wordsworth poem titled for a type of these things begins “I wandered lonely as a cloud.”

ANSWER: flowers [accept daffodils; accept flower girl]

[10h] In Major Barbara, Bill Walker slaps a female Salvation Army worker with this last name. In Pygmalion, Eliza Doolittle says, “Walk? Not bloody likely!” to a character with this last name who she later marries.

ANSWER: Hill [accept Freddy Eynsford-Hill or Jenny Hill; prompt on Eynsford]

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Summary


2024 ACF Fall at Claremont Colleges	fall	Y	5	16.00	80%	80%	0%
2024 ACF Fall at Cornell	fall	Y	9	7.78	44%	22%	11%
2024 ACF Fall at Illinois	fall	Y	9	17.78	78%	89%	11%
2024 ACF Fall at Rutgers	fall	Y	8	15.00	88%	63%	0%
2024 ACF Fall at Ohio State	fall	Y	7	10.00	57%	43%	0%
2024 ACF Fall at Washington	fall	Y	6	11.67	50%	67%	0%
2024 ACF Fall at Georgia	fall	Y	11	15.45	91%	64%	0%
2024 ACF Fall at North Carolina	fall	Y	9	16.67	100%	67%	0%

Data


Claremont B	UCLA C	10	10	0	20
Claremont C	UCLA D	0	0	0	0
UCLA E	UCLA B	10	10	0	20
Claremont A	UCSD	10	10	0	20
USC	UCLA A	10	10	0	20
Syracuse	Binghamton A	0	10	0	10
Binghamton C	RIT C	0	0	0	0
Cornell B	U of Rochester A	0	10	0	10
Cornell E	Cornell D	10	10	10	30
Cornell G	U of Rochester B	0	10	0	10
Cornell A	ESF	0	0	0	0
Cornell F	Penn State	0	0	0	0
Binghamton B	RIT A	0	0	0	0
RIT B	Cornell C	10	0	0	10
Purdue B	Chicago B	10	10	0	20
Illinois A	Northwestern A	10	10	0	20
Indiana	Illinois B	10	10	10	30
Illinois C	Illinois D	0	0	0	0
Chicago A	Iowa A	10	10	0	20
WashU B	Iowa B	10	0	0	10
Notre Dame A	Notre Dame C	10	10	0	20
Purdue A	Notre Dame B	10	10	0	20
Purdue C	WashU A	10	10	0	20
Columbia A	Columbia J	10	10	0	20
Fordham A	Maryland A	10	10	0	20
Rutgers B	Lehigh A	0	10	0	10
Bard A	Maryland B	0	10	0	10
NYU A	Columbia B	10	10	0	20
NYU B	Rowan A	10	10	0	20
Penn A	Penn B	10	10	0	20
Princeton A	Lehigh B	0	0	0	0
CWRU A	West Virginia A	10	0	0	10
CWRU B	Miami A	0	10	0	10
Michigan C	Jefferson County Scholars	0	0	0	0
Michigan A	Michigan B	10	10	0	20
Michigan State A	Michigan State B	0	10	0	10
Alberta	UW Gluttony	10	10	0	20
Arizona State A	UW Lust	10	0	0	10
Arizona State B	UW Envy	10	10	0	20
Boise State	UBC A	0	0	0	0
UBC B	UW Sloth	10	10	0	20
UW Chastity	UW Pride	0	0	0	0
Auburn A	Tennessee A	10	10	0	20
Tennessee B	Clemson A	0	10	0	10
Georgia A	Clemson B	10	10	0	20
Emory A	Georgia Tech B	10	10	0	20
Emory Oxford	Vanderbilt A	10	10	0	20
Alabama A	Furman	10	10	0	20
South Carolina A	Georgia Tech A	10	10	0	20
Auburn B	Georgia Tech C	0	10	0	10
Georgia Tech D	Georgia Tech E	10	10	0	20
Belmont	Southern	0	0	0	0
Vanderbilt B	Auburn C	0	10	0	10
James Madison A	Liberty B	10	10	0	20
Appalachian State A	James Madison B	10	10	0	20
Duke A	Liberty A	0	10	0	10
William & Mary	Liberty C	0	10	0	10
NC State	UNC D	0	10	0	10
Virginia Tech A	Tusculum	10	10	0	20
VCU	UNC B	10	10	0	20
UNC A	UNC C	10	10	0	20
Virginia Tech B	Duke B	10	10	0	20
CWRU C	Ohio State A	0	0	0	0
Michigan D	West Virginia B	10	10	0	20