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Question

A man with this profession instructs the audience to clap three times before introducing the play and “summoning” God at the opening of Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s play Everybody. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this profession of an unnamed protagonist trying to write an autobiographical musical while battling six “intrusive thoughts.”

ANSWER: usher

[10e] An author with this first and last name created the self-described “fat, Black, queer” Usher in his Pulitzer-winning musical A Strange Loop. A 2021 musical about a singer with this name features the songs “Billie Jean” and “Beat It.”

ANSWER: Michael Jackson [accept Michael R. Jackson or Michael Joseph Jackson; prompt on Jackson]

[10m] A 2024 non-musical play by Michael R. Jackson adapts a film titled for these body parts. Jacobs-Jenkins added new material to an all-black production of a play titled for these plural body parts that features the Antrobus family and the maid Sabina.

ANSWER: teeth [accept The Skin of Our Teeth; prompt on skin]

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Summary


2024 ARCADIA at BU	2024-12-06	Y	5	16.00	100%	60%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Duke	2024-12-06	Y	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Missouri S&T	2024-12-06	Y	2	25.00	100%	100%	50%
2024 ARCADIA Online	2025-05-17	Y	4	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Penn State	2024-12-06	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Florida Tech	2024-12-06	Y	4	12.50	75%	50%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley	2024-12-06	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Waterloo	2024-11-09	Y	6	13.33	100%	33%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at GT	2024-12-06	Y	4	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Illinois	2024-11-09	Y	4	17.50	100%	75%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Warwick	2024-12-06	Y	5	14.00	100%	40%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Claremont	2024-11-02	Y	3	23.33	100%	100%	33%

Data


Brandeis B	Boston College A	0	10	10	20
MIT	Harvard	0	10	10	20
Tufts A	Brandeis A	0	10	0	10
Virginia Tech C	North Carolina A	0	10	10	20
Virginia Tech A	North Carolina B	0	10	10	20
Virginia Tech B	South Carolina	0	10	0	10
Squidward Community College	Missouri	0	10	10	20
WashU	Truman	10	10	10	30
ASU->Stanford->ASU pipeline	In the Mood for Buzz	0	10	10	20
Madmen and Specialists	The cult of SGA	0	10	10	20
she limp on my waltz till i feel pathetique	Old and Young	0	10	10	20
Paddington in Peru (2024)	bingy academy	0	10	10	20
Penn State	Maryland	0	10	0	10
RIT	Pitt	0	10	0	10
Amherst	Yale	0	10	10	20
UF A	UF C	0	10	10	20
Valencia	USF	0	0	0	0
Berkeley A	Berkeley B	0	10	10	20
Stanford	Berkeley Past	0	10	0	10
UCF B	Florida Tech	0	10	0	10
UCF A	UF B	0	10	10	20
Toronto Metropolitan A	Carleton A	0	10	0	10
Waterloo Basic	Toronto A	0	10	10	20
Ottawa Absolomabsolomabsolom	Toronto B	0	10	0	10
McGill A	Toronto Chestnut Rice and Kamehameha	0	10	0	10
Waterloo Aspidistra	Toronto Disband the Club 2k24	0	10	10	20
Waterloo Cloze	McMaster ApocolocyntosisBidii	0	10	0	10
Georgia Tech B	Innovation Academy B	0	10	0	10
Georgia Tech C	Georgia Tech D	0	10	0	10
Innovation Academy A	Lambert	0	10	10	20
Milton	Mississippi State	0	10	10	20
Chicago A	Illinois Orange	0	10	10	20
Illinois Blue	Notre Dame	0	10	10	20
Purdue A	Purdue B	0	10	10	20
SIUE	Chicago B	0	10	0	10
Imperial A	Imperial B	0	10	0	10
LSE A	Bristol	0	10	10	20
LSE B	Southampton	0	10	0	10
Warwick B	Cambridge B	0	10	0	10
Cambridge A	Warwick C	0	10	10	20
ALCU	Jason et al.	0	10	10	20
SGV Ventures	Claremont	0	10	10	20
Anderson et al.	U[C]SD	10	10	10	30
Tufts B	Bowdoin A	0	10	0	10