Abraham Lincoln - 2024 ACF Winter

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


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
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
Penn A	Penn State A	10	10	0	20
Lehigh A	Rutgers C	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
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
Berkeley C	Berkeley A	10	0	10	20
Stanford A	Berkeley B	10	0	10	20
Stanford L	Stanford M	10	0	10	20
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
Oxford B	Birmingham	10	0	0	10
Imperial A	Bristol B	10	0	0	10
Southampton B	Cambridge B	10	0	0	10
Cambridge D	Durham B	10	0	0	10
Durham A	Edinburgh	0	0	0	0
Imperial B	Warwick B	10	0	0	10
Cambridge C	LSE 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