Question

A writer in this city used the name Loris for a lyrical prologue to a set of seven one-act plays about an elegant philanderer. Two shop assistants “go on a spree” in this city in a “farce with song” that was adapted into Tom Stoppard’s On the Razzle and Thornton Wilder’s The Matchmaker. The essay “Demolished Literature” satirized a circle of “Young” writers from this city, (-5[1])where a leading playwright wrote an 1818 “fate-tragedy” about Sappho. (10[1])A pretentious actor arrives late to an “artistic dinner” in this city (10[1])from a production of Ibsen’s (10[1])The Wild Duck in a novel by one of its native sons titled Woodcutters. Everyman (10[1])was (10[1])adapted (10[1])as (10[1])Jedermann (“YAY-der-mahn”) by a librettist (-5[1])from this modern-day capital, whose Heldenplatz (10[1])titles a play (-5[1])by (-5[1])Thomas Bernhard. For 10 points, (10[2])what (10[1])city’s (10[1])Burgtheater (10[1])debuted plays by Arthur Schnitzler and Hugo (10[2])von Hofmannsthal (10[1])■END■ (10[4])

ANSWER: Vienna [or Wien; accept Young Vienna or Jung-Wien] (Clues include Arthur Schnitzler’s Anatol, Johann Nestroy’s He Will Go on a Spree, Karl Kraus, and Franz Grillparzer.)
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Summary

2025 ACF Nationals04/19/2025Y20100%0%20%122.30

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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Thomas TibbettsUCFOhio State65-5
Mitch McCullarPenn StateNYU7510
Tim MorrisonStanfordNorthwestern8710
Guy IndoranteIowa StateIndiana9210
Tony ChenToronto AGeorgia Tech10710
Richard NiuCornell AOttawa10810
Michael HundingIllinois AVirginia10910
Joel MilesMinnesotaMichigan11010
Amogh KulkarniGeorgia StateJohns Hopkins114-5
Mattias EhatammWaterloo ANorth Carolina A12010
Moses KitakuleColumbia AWUSTL B123-5
Albert Yingzhi NyangLSEVanderbilt124-5
Parth JagtapToronto CRIT12910
Michael KearneyHarvardMaryland12910
Arjun KalaIllinois BFlorida13010
Caleb OttWaterloo BArizona State13110
Karan GurazadaTexasNorth Carolina B13210
William OrrYaleCornell B13910
Neal JoshiWUSTL AMIT13910
Shourjo GanguliOhio StateUCF14110
David BassJohns HopkinsGeorgia State14210
John John GrogerWUSTL BColumbia A14210
Alan WuVanderbiltLSE14210
Wenying WuToronto BWinona State14210