Question
Benjamin Chapin, an impersonator of this man, wrote a play titled for him that was then adapted into a ten-film cycle. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this man whose final day in Ford’s Theater watching Our American Cousin is depicted in Chapin’s play.
ANSWER: Abraham Lincoln
[10h] This playwright wrote about Lincoln’s life before going to Washington, D.C. in his play Abe Lincoln in Illinois. This member of the Algonquin Round Table also wrote The Petrified Forest.
ANSWER: Robert E. Sherwood [or Robert Emmet Sherwood]
[10m] Sherwood’s play was largely based on this author’s biography of Lincoln. This author also wrote, “Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo” in his poem “Grass.”
ANSWER: Carl Sandburg [or Carl August Sandburg]
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Summary
| 2024 ACF Winter at UC Berkeley | 2024-11-16 | Y | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Lehigh | 2024-11-16 | Y | 6 | 13.33 | 100% | 17% | 17% |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Northwestern | 2024-11-16 | Y | 9 | 16.67 | 100% | 56% | 11% |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Ohio State | 2024-11-16 | Y | 7 | 14.29 | 86% | 43% | 14% |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Online | 2024-11-16 | Y | 8 | 17.50 | 100% | 38% | 38% |
| 2024 ACF Winter at UBC | 2024-11-16 | Y | 3 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Central Florida | 2024-11-16 | Y | 5 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Oxford | 2024-11-16 | Y | 10 | 10.00 | 90% | 10% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Brandeis | 2024-11-16 | Y | 9 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
Data
| Berkeley C | Berkeley A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Stanford A | Berkeley B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Stanford L | Stanford M | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Columbia B | Bard A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Haverford A | Rowan A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Columbia A | Johns Hopkins A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Penn B | Penn State B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Penn A | Penn State A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Lehigh A | Rutgers C | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| WashU D | Notre Dame | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| UIUC B | Purdue A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Indiana B | Purdue D | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| UChicago B | SIUE A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| UIUC D | UChicago D | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| UIUC A | Indiana A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| UChicago A | UIUC C | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| WashU B | UChicago C | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| WashU C | Northwestern A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| CWRU D (DII) | CWRU B (UG) | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Michigan C (UG) | Kenyon B (DII) | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Michigan State B (UG) | Kenyon A (UG) | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Michigan State C (UG) | CWRU A (UG) | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Ohio State B (DII) | Pitt B (UG) | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Michigan B | Ohio State C (DII) | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Pitt A | Michigan D | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Arkansas | McGill E | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| NYU A | Central Oklahoma | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Vassar B | Mississippi State | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Texas B | Missouri | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| WUSTL A | Ole Miss | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Texas A | NYU B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Texas D | Texas C | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Vassar A | Oregon State | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| UW B | UBC A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| UBC B | Alberta | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| UW A | SFU | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Florida State University A | UCF B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| UF A | UF B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| UF C | UCF A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| UF D | Florida Tech B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| UF E | Florida Tech A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Oxford B | Birmingham | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Imperial A | Bristol B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Southampton B | Cambridge B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Durham A | Edinburgh | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Cambridge D | Durham B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| LSE A | Southampton A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Oxford A | Team 1 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Bristol A | Warwick A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| A Brandeis Supreme | Boston University B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Amherst A | Williams A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Yale B | Bowdoin A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Brown A | Carabrandeis | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Clark A | Bowdoin B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Diamond Brandeis | Boston University A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Harvard A | Brandeises Brew | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Tufts B | Yale A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Yale C | Tufts A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Imperial B | Warwick B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Cambridge C | LSE B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |