Bertolt Brecht - 2025 ACF Fall

Question

This playwright moved to East Berlin after his testimony to the House Un-American Activities Committee. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this German dramatist whose development of epic theatre sought to promote left-wing causes. This playwright attacked the capitalistic support for war in his play Mother Courage and Her Children.

ANSWER: Bertolt Brecht (“brekt”) [or Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht]

[10e] Brecht satirized the leader of this political party as a cauliflower mobster in his play The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui. Brecht depicted the rule of this political party in Fear and Misery in the Third Reich.

ANSWER: Nazi Party [or Nazis or NSDAP; or National Socialist German Workers Party; or Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei]

[10h] Brecht critiqued capitalism in The Threepenny Opera by depicting Jonathan Peachum selling licenses allowing these people to operate. The Threepenny Opera was adapted from a John Gay opera titled for these people.

ANSWER: beggars [accept The Beggar’s Opera; reject any synonyms]

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Summary


Northern California	Main	Y	4	17.50	100%	75%	0%
Southern California	Main	Y	7	18.57	100%	71%	14%
Eastern Canada (1)	Main	Y	4	17.50	100%	75%	0%
Eastern Canada (2)	Main	Y	9	16.67	100%	67%	0%
Florida	Main	Y	4	12.50	100%	25%	0%
Great Lakes	Main	Y	11	20.00	100%	73%	27%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	9	16.67	100%	56%	11%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	9	14.44	100%	44%	0%
Midwest	Main	Y	9	15.56	89%	56%	11%
North	Main	Y	4	15.00	100%	50%	0%
Pacific	Main	Y	8	17.50	88%	75%	13%
South Central	Main	Y	6	13.33	100%	17%	17%
Southeast	Main	Y	12	17.50	100%	58%	17%
UK (North)	UK	Y	5	18.00	100%	60%	20%
UK (South)	UK	Y	8	15.00	100%	50%	0%
Upstate NY	Main	Y	1	10.00	100%	0%	0%

Data


Stanford A	Berkeley Archer Queen	0	10	0	10
Berkeley Mighty Miner	Berkeley Boss Bandit	10	10	0	20
UCSC	Berkeley Skeleton King	10	10	0	20
Berkeley Little Prince	Stanford B	10	10	0	20
USC A	Claremont C	0	10	0	10
UC Santa Barbara	Claremont B	10	10	0	20
Claremont A	UCLA A	10	10	0	20
Ottawa B	Carleton A	10	10	0	20
McGill E	Carleton B	10	10	0	20
Ottawa C	McGill B	0	10	0	10
Ottawa D	Ottawa A	10	10	0	20
Toronto A	Guelph A	0	10	0	10
Toronto C	McMaster A	10	10	0	20
Waterloo A	McMaster B	10	10	0	20
Toronto B	Queen's A	10	10	0	20
Toronto E	Waterloo C	10	10	0	20
Brock A	Toronto F	0	10	0	10
Toronto D	Toronto H	10	10	0	20
Toronto I	Toronto G	10	10	0	20
Waterloo B	McMaster C	0	10	0	10
UCLA B	UCLA C	0	10	10	20
UCSD A	UCLA E	10	10	0	20
UCSD B	UCLA F	10	10	0	20
UCLA D	USC B	10	10	0	20
CWRU D	CWRU A	0	10	0	10
Ohio State C	Kentucky	10	10	0	20
Louisville B	Michigan State B	10	10	10	30
Ohio State B	Louisville C	10	10	0	20
Michigan B	Michigan State D	10	10	0	20
Michigan C	Michigan State C	0	10	0	10
Ohio State A	Michigan D	10	10	10	30
Louisville D	Michigan State A	10	10	10	30
CWRU B	Pittsburgh	10	10	0	20
WVU A	Louisville A	0	10	0	10
Ohio State D	WVU B	10	10	0	20
Virginia Tech B	JMU A	10	10	0	20
William & Mary A	Liberty A	10	10	0	20
Liberty C	Liberty B	0	10	0	10
NCSU A	Virginia Tech C	10	10	10	30
NCSU B	UNC A	0	10	0	10
VCU A	Tusculum A	0	10	0	10
UNC B	Virginia Tech A	10	10	0	20
UNC D	Virginia A	10	10	0	20
William & Mary C	Duke A	0	10	0	10
Lehigh A	George Mason A	0	10	0	10
Maryland B	Vassar B	0	10	0	10
Maryland C	Johns Hopkins	10	10	0	20
NYU B	Princeton	0	10	0	10
Lehigh B	Rutgers A	0	10	0	10
NYU C	Rutgers B	0	10	0	10
Maryland A	Rutgers C	10	10	0	20
Rutgers D	Rowan	10	10	0	20
George Mason B	Stony Brook	10	10	0	20
Chicago A	Illinois Urbana	0	10	0	10
Purdue C	Chicago B	0	10	0	10
Purdue D	Illinois Canada	0	10	0	10
Rose-Hulman A	Illinois Champaign	10	10	0	20
Illinois Orange	Iowa A	10	10	0	20
Indiana A	Iowa B	10	0	0	10
Purdue A	Indiana B	10	10	0	20
WashU Grolars	Illinois Blue	10	10	10	30
Purdue B	William Woods University A	0	10	0	10
Minnesota	Iowa State	0	10	0	10
Macalester	Michigan Tech	10	10	0	20
Wisconsin B	Wisconsin A	0	10	0	10
Wisconsin C	St. Thomas	10	10	0	20
Arizona State A	Washington Chum	10	10	0	20
Washington Atlantic	Arizona State B	10	10	0	20
Boise State	Washington State	0	10	0	10
Alberta A	British Columbia A	10	10	0	20
Washington Steelhead	British Columbia B	10	0	0	10
Washington Chinook	Texas	0	10	0	10
Washington Pink	British Columbia C	10	10	10	30
Washington Sockeye	Alberta B	10	10	0	20
Kansas State A	Rose State	0	10	10	20
Murray State College B	Kansas State B	0	10	0	10
Nebraska A	Murray State College A	0	10	0	10
Nebraska B	Oklahoma	10	10	0	20
Harding	Tulsa A	0	10	0	10
Tulsa B	Central Oklahoma A	0	10	0	10
Florida A	Florida Tech B	0	10	0	10
Florida State A	ERAU Daytona A	0	10	0	10
Florida Tech A	Florida B	0	10	0	10
South Florida A	UCF A	10	10	0	20
South Carolina A	Alabama A	10	10	0	20
Vanderbilt C	Auburn C	0	10	0	10
Clemson A	Georgia Tech A	10	10	10	30
Durham D	Durham A	10	10	0	20
Durham C	Durham B	10	10	0	20
Edinburgh D	Edinburgh B	0	10	0	10
Edinburgh A	Sheffield B	0	10	0	10
York	Sheffield A	10	10	10	30
Cambridge B	Cambridge D	10	10	0	20
Cambridge C	Cambridge E	0	10	0	10
LSE	Cardiff	0	10	0	10
Southampton	Imperial B	10	10	0	20
Imperial A	Imperial C	10	10	0	20
Cambridge A	Imperial D	10	10	0	20
Oxford	Birmingham	0	10	0	10
Bristol	Warwick	0	10	0	10
RIT A	Cornell D	0	10	0	10
Tennessee B	Georgia A	0	10	0	10
Georgia Tech B	Georgia Tech E	10	10	0	20
Georgia Tech C	Emory A	10	10	0	20
Georgia Tech F	Mississippi State A	0	10	0	10
Montevallo	Vanderbilt B	0	10	0	10
Clemson B	Sewanne	0	10	0	10
Chipola College	Tennessee Tech	10	10	0	20
Vanderbilt A	Tennessee A	10	10	10	30
Georgia Tech D	Clemson C	10	10	0	20