Roy Cohn - 2025 ACF Regionals

Question

In a one-act play, this man greets his friend Dave at a bar in Hell, explaining that Hell is better because Heaven has Bill Kunstler and Purgatory has “Lionel Trilling [and] the New York Review of Books.” For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this historical figure. In another play, the ghost of a woman persecuted by this man sings the Yiddish folk song “Tumbalalaika” as he dies, then guides a kaddish over his body.

ANSWER: Roy Cohn [or Roy Marcus Cohn] (The play in the lead-in is G. David Schine in Hell.)

[10e] Roy Cohn’s final days are fictionalized in this two-part Tony Kushner play, whose subtitle is “A Gay Fantasia on National Themes.”

ANSWER: Angels in America [or Angels in America: a Gay Fantasia on National Themes]

[10h] In his introductory monologue, Cohn wishes he were one of these animals. In his final line, Cohn tells the ghost of Ethel Rosenberg he wants to be reincarnated as one of these animals before dying.

ANSWER: octopuses [or octopi; or octopodes]

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Summary


Florida	2025-02-01	Y	3	6.67	67%	0%	0%
Great Lakes	2025-02-01	Y	6	11.67	100%	17%	0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	Y	6	11.67	67%	33%	17%
Midwest	2025-02-01	Y	6	13.33	83%	50%	0%
North	2025-02-01	Y	3	20.00	100%	100%	0%
Northeast	2025-02-01	Y	5	10.00	60%	20%	20%
Overflow	2025-02-01	Y	5	20.00	100%	60%	40%
Pacific Northwest	2025-02-01	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
South Central	2025-02-01	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
Southeast	2025-02-01	Y	4	10.00	100%	0%	0%
UK	2025-02-01	Y	10	16.00	100%	40%	20%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	Y	8	17.50	100%	50%	25%
Upstate NY	2025-02-01	Y	3	10.00	67%	33%	0%

Data


Wake Forest	Duke	0	0	0	0
Liberty A	Liberty C	0	10	0	10
Virginia Tech A	Liberty B	10	10	0	20
UW B	Alberta	0	10	0	10
UBC	UW A	0	10	0	10
ASU	Texas A	0	10	0	10
TAMU	Texas B	10	10	0	20
Cornell C	ESF A	0	10	0	10
RIT A	Binghamton A	10	10	0	20
RIT B	Cornell D	0	0	0	0
Chicago B	Chicago D	10	10	0	20
Chicago A	Chicago C	10	10	0	20
Missoui S&T	Illinois B	0	0	0	0
Indiana A	Illinois C	10	10	0	20
Illinois A	Missouri	0	10	0	10
WashU B	WashU A	0	10	0	10
Iowa State	Wisconsin B	10	10	0	20
Minnesota B	Wisconsin A	10	10	0	20
Winona State	Carleton	10	10	0	20
BU	Dartmouth A	0	0	0	0
Cambridge A	Southampton B	0	10	0	10
Cambridge C	Durham	10	10	0	20
Cambridge B	Imperial B	0	10	0	10
LSE	Warwick B	0	10	0	10
Manchester	Oxford B	10	10	10	30
Cambridge E	NYU C	10	10	0	20
Oxford A	Sheffield	10	10	10	30
Cambridge D	Oxford C	0	10	0	10
Imperial A	Warwick A	0	10	0	10
Florida B	Florida State A	0	10	0	10
Florida A	UCF B	0	10	0	10
UCF C	Valencia A	0	0	0	0
Carnegie Mellon A	Case Western B	0	10	0	10
Case Western A	Michigan B	0	10	0	10
Michigan State	Kenyon	0	10	0	10
Michigan A	Carnegie Mellon B	0	10	0	10
Michigan C	Michigan D	0	10	0	10
Ohio State A	Ohio State B	10	10	0	20
UNC C	South Carolina	0	0	0	0
UNC B	UNC D	0	10	0	10
Virginia A	William & Mary	10	10	10	30
Tufts A	Brandeis B	0	0	0	0
Brown A	Brandeis A	0	10	0	10
MIT A	Harvard A	10	10	10	30
Harvard B	UMass Boston	0	10	0	10
Georgetown A	Notre Dame B	10	10	10	30
Notre Dame A	Georgetown B	10	10	10	30
Northwestern B	Iowa	0	10	0	10
Northwestern A	Purdue	0	10	0	10
Stanford B	Notre Dame C	10	10	0	20
Georgia Tech A	Alabama A	0	10	0	10
Georgia Tech D	Louisville A	0	10	0	10
Tennessee A	Georgia Tech B	0	10	0	10
Vanderbilt A	Georgia Tech C	0	10	0	10
Bristol	Southampton A	0	10	0	10
Rutgers A	Cornell B	0	10	0	10
George Washington A	Columbia C	0	10	0	10
Maryland A	George Washington B	10	10	0	20
Vassar A	Haverford A	0	10	0	10
Penn B	Haverford B	10	10	0	20
Columbia B	John Jay College	10	10	0	20
NYU A	Penn A	10	10	10	30
Johns Hopkins A	Yale A	0	10	10	20