washerwomen - 2024 PLAYTIME

Question

The second act of a play opens with a group of these people singing and gossiping about the title character, whom they call “spoiled, lazy, and soft.” For 10 points each:

[10h] Name these people, six of whom sing “Like glowing jasmine, / you’re filled with laughter” and form a chorus in the play Yerma.

ANSWER: washerwomen [accept Six Washerwomen; accept descriptions like women who wash]

[10m] Yerma believes that this substance will turn to poison if a woman does not have children. This substance titles another play by the same author that ends with Leonardo and the Groom’s deaths in a forest.

ANSWER: blood [or sangre; accept Blood Wedding]

[10e] Along with his play The House of Bernarda Alba, Yerma and Blood Wedding comprise the “rural trilogy” of this Spanish playwright and member of the Generation of ‘27.

ANSWER: Federico García Lorca [or Federico del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús García Lorca]

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2025 PLAYTIME @ CWRU	12/10/2024	Y	6	15.00	83%	67%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Claremont	12/10/2024	Y	5	12.00	60%	40%	20%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Florida	12/10/2024	Y	3	23.33	100%	100%	33%
2024 PLAYTIME @ Harvard	04/26/2025	Y	4	17.50	100%	75%	0%
2024 PLAYTIME @ JHU	10/26/2024	Y	8	15.00	88%	50%	13%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Northwest	12/10/2024	Y	4	17.50	75%	75%	25%
2025 PLAYTIME Online	04/26/2025	Y	9	18.89	100%	89%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Sheffield	12/10/2024	Y	7	14.29	57%	71%	14%
2024 PLAYTIME @ UBC	10/05/2024	Y	8	15.00	63%	88%	0%
2024 PLAYTIME @ Virginia Tech	07/11/2025	Y	3	20.00	100%	67%	33%
2024 PLAYTIME @ WashU	10/12/2024	Y	6	16.67	83%	50%	33%

Data


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