Question
This author suggested the idea for, and was the dedicatee of, a musical about Steeltown U.S.A.; that musical by Marc Blitzstein is The Cradle Will Rock. While waiting to lodge a complaint, a woman created by this author sings of how, when young and proud, a bird told her of her future passivity. In lyrics written by this author, the singer repeats “I tell you we must die” while looking for “the next whiskey bar.” The prostitute Yvette sings the “Fraternization Song” in a play by this author that ends with the protagonist singing a lullaby and hitching herself to a wagon. This playwright wrote the lyrics to “Alabama Song” and a song about “old Macheath” titled “Mack the Knife.” For 10 points, Kurt Weill (“vile”) co-wrote The Threepenny Opera with what German author of Mother Courage and Her Children? ■END■
Summary
California | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 67% | 0% | 33% | 83.50 |
Great Lakes | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 17% | 123.67 |
Lower Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 67% | 0% | 17% | 95.00 |
Midwest | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 17% | 103.67 |
Overflow | 2025-02-01 | Y | 5 | 80% | 0% | 20% | 93.50 |
Pacific Northwest | 2025-02-01 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 98.50 |
Southeast | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 114.00 |
UK | 2025-02-01 | Y | 10 | 100% | 0% | 10% | 112.70 |
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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Cole Hartung | Georgetown A | Northwestern B | 26 | 10 |
Kevin Park | Claremont A | Claremont B | 44 | -5 |
Justin Wytmar | Illinois A | Indiana B | 48 | -5 |
Maya Kvaratskhelia | Notre Dame A | Northwestern A | 74 | -5 |
Stevie Miller | Carnegie Mellon A | Michigan B | 77 | -5 |
Michał Gerasimiuk | Stanford B | Iowa | 77 | 10 |
Delia Cropper | Oxford A | Cambridge A | 78 | 10 |
Eve Fleisig | UC Berkeley A | UC Berkeley B | 80 | 10 |
Noah Chin | Virginia Tech A | William & Mary | 80 | 10 |
Jack Lewis | Bruin A | Georgia Tech C | 80 | 10 |
Rachel Fanous | Michigan A | Ohio State A | 81 | 10 |
Ivan Stanisavljevic | Duke | South Carolina | 81 | 10 |
Arjun Kala | Illinois B | WashU A | 85 | 10 |
Albert Nyang | LSE | Imperial A | 86 | 10 |
Kaiser Xiao | UCLA | UCSD | 87 | 10 |
Josh Schmidt | Liberty A | Virginia A | 87 | 10 |
Neal Joshi | WashU B | Illinois C | 89 | 10 |
Aden Sun | Chicago B | Missouri | 89 | 10 |
Jakob Myers | Indiana A | Chicago D | 89 | 10 |
Truman Fillbrandt | UW A | UW B | 92 | 10 |
Andrew Fisher | Sheffield | Manchester | 92 | 10 |
Tai Belke | UBC | Alberta | 105 | 10 |
Carter Pisocky | Michigan C | Ohio State B | 119 | 10 |
Crow He | UNC B | Wake Forest | 119 | -5 |
Benjamin Watson | Oxford C | Cambridge E | 119 | 10 |
Zayyan Mahmood | Southampton A | NYU C | 119 | 10 |
Elliot Cosnett | Oxford B | Imperial B | 119 | 10 |
Chris Levesley | Warwick A | Bristol | 119 | -5 |
Michael Wu | Southampton B | Cambridge D | 122 | 10 |
Harris Beckner | Alabama A | Vanderbilt A | 123 | 10 |
Josh Howarth | Warwick B | Durham | 125 | 10 |
Andrei Hui | Cambridge B | Cambridge C | 128 | 10 |
Elie Aoun | Case Western A | Kenyon | 129 | 10 |
Jacob Harl | Missoui S&T | Chicago C | 131 | 10 |
Michael Eng | UNC C | UNC D | 132 | 10 |
Eric Yang | Purdue | Notre Dame B | 132 | 10 |
Biyang Zhang | Michigan B | Carnegie Mellon A | 135 | 10 |
Aidan Deshong | Claremont B | Claremont A | 139 | 0 |
Ruchir Kodihalli | Case Western B | Michigan D | 139 | 10 |
Jayden Ku | Carnegie Mellon B | Michigan State | 139 | 10 |
Johanna Bryant | Liberty C | Liberty B | 139 | 0 |
Miller Doerr | Liberty B | Liberty C | 139 | 0 |
Nermeen Rahman | Indiana B | Illinois A | 139 | 10 |
Christopher Sims | Northwestern A | Notre Dame A | 139 | 10 |
Will Sanders | Notre Dame C | Georgetown B | 139 | 0 |
Ben Horning | Georgetown B | Notre Dame C | 139 | 0 |
Tianyu Xu | Georgia Tech A | Louisville A | 139 | 10 |
Kevin Flanagan | Bristol | Warwick A | 139 | 10 |