Stage Manager - 2025 ACF Regionals

Question

In a play, a character with this job leads Ivy, Mr. Tremayne, Hester, and Fred Bailey in a scene that personifies the hours of the day as philosophers like Spinoza and Plato. For 10 points each:

[10m] Give this job held by Mr. Fitzpatrick in a play about the Antrobus family. In another play, a character with this job replies, “the saints and the poets, maybe,” to a dead woman’s question.

ANSWER: Stage Manager [prompt on narrators]

[10e] This author included fourth wall-breaking stage managers in his plays The Skin of Our Teeth and Our Town.

ANSWER: Thornton Wilder [or Thornton Niven Wilder]

[10h] The hours are also equated to philosophers in a Wilder play titled [this sort of place] Hiawatha. In another play set in this sort of place, a Black man claims that killing white people “would make us all sane” to a woman who stabs him.

ANSWER: train cars [or subway cars; accept New York City subways; accept metro cars; accept Pullman Car Hiawatha; prompt on cars] (The other play is Dutchman by Amiri Baraka.)

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Summary


California	2025-02-01	Y	3	26.67	100%	100%	67%
Florida	2025-02-01	Y	3	6.67	67%	0%	0%
Great Lakes	2025-02-01	Y	6	15.00	100%	50%	0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	Y	6	15.00	100%	33%	17%
Midwest	2025-02-01	Y	6	16.67	100%	67%	0%
North	2025-02-01	Y	3	23.33	100%	67%	67%
Northeast	2025-02-01	Y	5	14.00	80%	40%	20%
Overflow	2025-02-01	Y	5	12.00	80%	20%	20%
South Central	2025-02-01	Y	2	20.00	100%	50%	50%
Southeast	2025-02-01	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
UK	2025-02-01	Y	10	13.00	80%	30%	20%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	Y	7	18.57	86%	57%	43%
Upstate NY	2025-02-01	Y	3	6.67	67%	0%	0%

Data


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