Tennessee Williams - 2024 ACF Fall

Question

This author complains that “I got so sick of hearing people say, ‘I loved your play!’ that I could not say thank you any more” in an essay about feeling estranged from his friends. For 10 points each:

[10e] Name this author of the essay “The Catastrophe of Success.” That essay was published days before the opening of this author’s play about Blanche DuBois moving to New Orleans, A Streetcar Named Desire.

ANSWER: Tennessee Williams [or Thomas Lanier Williams, III]

[10m] “The Catastrophe of Success” describes being “snatched out of virtual oblivion” by this play. In this “memory play,” Laura Wingfield’s “gentleman caller” breaks her unicorn figurine.

ANSWER: The Glass Menagerie

[10h] In “The Catastrophe of Success,” Williams mentions accidentally pouring chocolate sauce over a steak in one of these locations. In another play by Williams, Reverend Shannon visits one of these locations run by Maxine.

ANSWER: hotels [or motels] (The play is The Night of the Iguana.)

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Summary


2024 ACF Fall at Cornell	fall	Y	9	11.11	78%	33%	0%
2024 ACF Fall at Ohio State	fall	Y	8	20.00	100%	88%	13%
2024 ACF Fall at Washington	fall	Y	6	20.00	83%	83%	33%
2024 ACF Fall at Georgia	fall	Y	12	20.00	83%	92%	25%
2024 ACF Fall at North Carolina	fall	Y	9	18.89	100%	78%	11%
2024 ACF Fall at Claremont Colleges	fall	Y	5	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 ACF Fall at Rutgers	fall	Y	9	18.89	78%	89%	22%
2024 ACF Fall at Illinois	fall	Y	9	21.11	100%	100%	11%

Data


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