the porter - 2024 ACF Regionals

Question

In the one scene this drunken character appears in, he pretends to work for the Devil before noting, “this place is too cold for hell.” For 10 points each:

[10m] Identify this unnamed character who answers Macduff’s and Lennox’s knocks at a gate in the middle of the night.

ANSWER: the porter

[10e] The porter answers those knocks soon after the title character of this Shakespearean tragedy murders King Duncan.

ANSWER: Macbeth [or The Tragedy of Macbeth]

[10h] In the penultimate scene of this play that was (emphasize) co-written by Shakespeare, a porter and his man fail to calm down a crowd that is gathering to see the christening of the king’s daughter.

ANSWER: Henry VIII [accept All is True] (The daughter is Elizabeth.)

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Summary


2024 ACF Regionals @ Berkeley	01/27/2024	Y	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Cornell	01/27/2024	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
2024 ACF Regionals @ JMU	01/27/2024	Y	11	14.55	100%	36%	9%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Minnesota	01/27/2024	Y	2	20.00	100%	50%	50%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Nebraska	01/27/2024	Y	6	13.33	100%	33%	0%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Ohio State	01/27/2024	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Rutgers	01/27/2024	Y	5	18.00	100%	80%	0%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Imperial	01/27/2024	Y	4	22.50	100%	75%	50%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Vanderbilt	01/27/2024	Y	5	16.00	100%	60%	0%

Data


Berkeley B	Berkeley A	10	10	0	20
Berkeley C	Stanford A	0	10	0	10
Stanford B	Stanford C	10	10	0	20
Cornell B	Binghamton	0	10	0	10
Cornell A	RIT A	10	10	0	20
RIT B	Cornell C	0	10	0	10
Liberty A (Grad)	Duke A (UG)	0	10	0	10
GWU A (UG)	JMU B (UG)	0	10	0	10
Maryland B (UG)	GWU B (Grad)	10	10	0	20
Liberty B (DII)	JMU A (UG)	0	10	0	10
UNC D (DII)	Liberty C (DII)	0	10	0	10
William & Mary A (UG)	Roanoke College A (DII)	10	10	0	20
Maryland A (Grad)	UNC B (UG)	0	10	10	20
UNC C (UG)	Virginia A (UG)	0	10	0	10
Maryland C (DII)	Virginia B (UG)	0	10	0	10
UNC A (Grad)	Virginia C (UG)	10	10	0	20
UNC A (Grad)	Virginia C (UG)	10	10	0	20
UNC A (Grad)	Virginia C (UG)	10	10	0	20
UNC A (Grad)	Virginia C (UG)	10	10	0	20
UNC A (Grad)	Virginia C (UG)	10	10	0	20
UNC A (Grad)	Virginia C (UG)	10	10	0	20
UNC A (Grad)	Virginia C (UG)	10	10	0	20
UNC A (Grad)	Virginia C (UG)	10	10	0	20
Iowa State	Minnesota C	0	10	10	20
Arizona State	Minnesota B	10	10	0	20
Iowa A	Claremont A	0	10	0	10
UBC A	Michigan State A	10	10	0	20
Texas A	Rice A	0	10	0	10
Sorbonne	Iowa B	0	10	0	10
UW A	Texas A&M A	0	10	0	10
Texas A&M B	Appalachian State	10	10	0	20
Michigan A	Michigan B	10	10	0	20
Ohio State A	Michigan C	0	10	0	10
Kenyon	Ohio State B	0	10	0	10
Columbia B	Haverford	10	10	0	20
Johns Hopkins	John Jay	10	10	0	20
NYU A	NYU B	10	10	0	20
Penn	Columbia A	10	10	0	20
Columbia C	Rowan	0	10	0	10
Sheffield	Bristol	0	10	0	10
Cambridge A	Warwick	10	10	10	30
Durham A	Imperial A	10	10	10	30
Oxford C	Durham B	10	10	0	20
Vanderbilt B	Geodesic	0	10	0	10
Georgia Tech A	Alabama	0	10	0	10
MTSU	Harding	10	10	0	20
Kentucky	Georgia Tech B	10	10	0	20
Vanderbilt A	Tennessee	10	10	0	20