Robert Lowell - 2024 PLAYTIME

Question

In a poem by this author, the speaker says, “You’ll walk to no purpose / in Hawthorne’s Salem.” For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this author of a play that adapts Hawthorne’s stories “Endecott and the Red Cross” and “My Kinsman, Major Molineux.” This author wrote a poem about a “monument [that] sticks like a fishbone / in the city's throat” set at the “old South Boston Aquarium.”

ANSWER: Robert Lowell [or Robert Traill Spence Lowell IV] (The lead-in is from “Hawthorne” and the second poem is “For the Union Dead.”)

[10e] An author from this country adapted Hawthorne’s story “Rappaccini’s Daughter” into a play that Daniel Catán, a composer from this country, used for an opera. This country was home to the author of Aura, Carlos Fuentes.

ANSWER: Mexico [or United Mexican States or Estados Unidos Mexicanos]

[10h] This author, who wrote about “La Negrita” in an adaptation of The Scarlet Letter titled In the Blood, also adapted Hawthorne in her play Fucking A.

ANSWER: Suzan-Lori Parks

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Summary


2025 PLAYTIME @ CWRU	12/10/2024	Y	5	10.00	60%	40%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Claremont	12/10/2024	Y	5	12.00	60%	40%	20%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Florida	12/10/2024	Y	2	25.00	100%	100%	50%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Florida	12/10/2024	Y	1	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 PLAYTIME @ Harvard	04/26/2025	Y	4	15.00	75%	50%	25%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Northwest	12/10/2024	Y	4	10.00	75%	25%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME Online	04/26/2025	Y	9	21.11	100%	78%	33%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Sheffield	12/10/2024	Y	6	10.00	67%	33%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Sheffield	12/10/2024	Y	1	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 PLAYTIME @ Virginia Tech	07/11/2025	Y	3	16.67	100%	33%	33%

Data


Michigan B	Michigan A	10	10	0	20
Michigan C	Michigan D	0	0	0	0
Oberlin	Pittsburgh	0	0	0	0
UCLA B	UCLA A	0	0	0	0
UCSD	UCSB	0	0	0	0
P.C.‚ Daniel‚ Michel‚ and Jason B	girl 15 whale i mean they	10	10	0	20
Art of Premature Signaling	Caltech	10	10	10	30
Claremont B	Claremont A	0	10	0	10
Billy's Bastion	Qin Shi Huang's Immortality Poison	10	10	10	30
Edwin Laundrorat's Long-Lost Man Unclothès Rat Degrosses	Too much from you lately	10	10	0	20
BU	Belmont	0	0	0	0
Brandeis	Harvard	10	10	0	20
Lexington	Brown	10	10	10	30
RIT	MIT	0	10	0	10
Project2025BC: Make Assyria Great Again	Keeping Up With the Cardassians	10	10	0	20
Ohio State B	Ohio State A	0	10	0	10
Washington Connections	Arizona State University A	0	10	0	10
South Dakota School of Mines	Arizona State University B	0	10	0	10
UW B	Carleton	10	10	0	20
UW A	Alberta	0	0	0	0
Illinois Orange	Four Generalists in Search of a Power	10	10	10	30
MSJ	Goober Gang	10	10	0	20
Ohio State D	Ohio State C	10	10	0	20
mongeese	2 Italians, 2 Poles, All Noles	0	10	10	20
Free Agents 1	Egypt Airlines Haters	10	10	0	20
Gruh	Auburn 2026	10	10	0	20
Mahjonng Masters	we need new names	10	10	0	20
Notre Dame + Epic Games	Quatumvirate	0	10	0	10
Mike Dukakis Tank Battalion	Trip-Hop Quizzer Tricky	10	10	10	30
evil women enjoyers	Monsieur Hulot's Academic Team	10	10	0	20
Sheffield A	Sheffield B	0	10	0	10
LSE	Imperial A	10	10	0	20
Sheffield C	Manchester	0	0	0	0
Birmingham	Imperial B	0	10	0	10
Cambridge	Warwick B	0	10	0	10
4 quizbowl pros go Virginia on North Carolina	Ashurbanipal’s Drag Race	0	10	0	10
Even in Blacksburg There I Am	Adrianne Lenker 4 Nobel Lit Prize 2K65	10	10	10	30
Somehow Paula Deen Returned	Master and Margaritaville	0	10	0	10
Warwick A	Lancaster	10	10	0	20
Edinburgh	Warwick C	0	0	0	0