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Question

In a play titled for one of these events, Leon Trotsky and his wife argue whether a tool is an ice pick or a mountain climber’s axe. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this sort of event, whose “variations” title that play. In another play titled for one of these events, Biff resents his father after walking in on his extramarital affair.

ANSWER: deaths [accept word forms such as dying; accept Variations on the Death of Trotsky or Death of a Salesman] (Death of a Salesman is by Arthur Miller.)

[10h] Variations on the Death of Trotsky is a play by an author with this first name. A play by a different playwright with this first name describes a real estate sales competition between Ricky Roma, Shelley Levene, and others.

ANSWER: David [accept David Ives or David Mamet] (The play is Glengarry Glen Ross.)

[10e] In another David Ives play, a man becomes trapped in an anomalous pocket of reality named for this city. In that play, a sign of being trapped in the anomaly is receiving this city’s signature cheese steak.

ANSWER: Philadelphia [or Philly; accept The Philadelphia]

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Northern California	Main	Y	4	20.00	100%	75%	25%
Southern California	Main	Y	7	20.00	100%	86%	14%
Eastern Canada (1)	Main	Y	5	22.00	100%	80%	40%
Eastern Canada (2)	Main	Y	9	16.67	100%	44%	22%
Florida	Main	Y	4	12.50	100%	25%	0%
Great Lakes	Main	Y	12	21.67	100%	67%	50%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	9	21.11	100%	78%	33%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	10	17.00	100%	50%	20%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	2	20.00	100%	50%	50%
Midwest	Main	Y	9	22.22	100%	100%	22%
North	Main	Y	4	17.50	100%	50%	25%
Northeast	Main	Y	11	20.00	100%	64%	36%
Pacific	Main	Y	8	21.25	100%	75%	38%
South Central	Main	Y	7	17.14	100%	71%	0%
Southeast	Main	Y	13	23.85	100%	85%	54%
Upstate NY	Main	Y	5	18.00	100%	60%	20%

Data


Berkeley Boss Bandit	Stanford B	10	0	10	20
Berkeley Mighty Miner	Berkeley Archer Queen	10	10	10	30
Stanford A	UCSC	0	0	10	10
Berkeley Skeleton King	Berkeley Little Prince	10	0	10	20
Claremont C	UC Irvine	0	0	10	10
UC Santa Barbara	UCLA C	10	0	10	20
USC B	UCLA A	10	0	10	20
UCLA B	Claremont B	10	0	10	20
UCLA D	Claremont A	10	0	10	20
UCSD B	UCSD A	10	10	10	30
UCLA E	USC A	10	0	10	20
Carleton A	McGill E	10	10	10	30
McGill A	McGill C	10	0	10	20
McGill B	Ottawa D	0	0	10	10
Ottawa B	Ottawa A	10	10	10	30
Ottawa C	Carleton B	10	0	10	20
Toronto E	Guelph A	10	0	10	20
Queen's A	Brock A	10	0	10	20
Toronto A	Waterloo A	0	0	10	10
Toronto B	Toronto C	10	10	10	30
Toronto D	McMaster A	0	10	10	20
Toronto I	Toronto H	0	0	10	10
Waterloo B	Toronto G	0	0	10	10
McMaster B	Waterloo C	10	0	10	20
Florida B	Florida Tech A	0	0	10	10
Florida State A	ERAU Daytona A	0	0	10	10
Florida Tech B	South Florida A	0	0	10	10
Florida A	UCF A	10	0	10	20
CWRU B	CWRU A	10	10	10	30
Pittsburgh	Kentucky	10	10	10	30
Ohio State A	Louisville B	10	10	10	30
Louisville C	Michigan State D	10	0	10	20
Michigan B	Michigan A	10	10	10	30
CWRU D	Michigan C	0	0	10	10
Michigan D	CWRU C	0	0	10	10
Louisville A	Michigan State A	10	10	10	30
Michigan State B	Ohio State B	10	0	10	20
Louisville D	Ohio State C	10	10	10	30
Ohio State D	Michigan State C	0	0	10	10
WVU B	WVU A	0	0	10	10
McMaster C	Toronto F	0	0	10	10
William & Mary A	NCSU A	0	0	10	10
Liberty C	Tusculum A	10	0	10	20
UNC A	Virginia Tech A	10	10	10	30
UNC B	UNC C	10	0	10	20
Virginia A	Virginia Tech B	10	10	10	30
UNC D	Virginia Tech C	10	0	10	20
William & Mary B	JMU A	10	0	10	20
Liberty A	William & Mary C	10	10	10	30
NCSU B	Liberty B	0	0	10	10
George Mason A	Maryland B	10	10	10	30
Lehigh A	Rutgers B	0	0	10	10
George Mason C	Columbia B	0	0	10	10
Johns Hopkins	George Mason B	0	0	10	10
Lehigh B	NYU B	0	0	10	10
Rutgers A	Maryland A	10	10	10	30
NYU A	Maryland C	10	10	10	30
Columbia A	Princeton	0	0	10	10
Vassar B	Rowan	0	0	10	10
NYU C	Rutgers C	10	0	10	20
Penn	Rutgers D	10	0	10	20
Vassar A	Stony Brook	10	0	10	20
Illinois Champaign	Iowa B	10	0	10	20
Chicago A	WashU Grizzlers	10	0	10	20
Purdue A	Chicago B	10	0	10	20
Purdue B	Illinois Canada	10	0	10	20
Iowa A	Purdue C	10	0	10	20
Rose-Hulman A	Purdue D	10	10	10	30
WashU Grolars	Indiana A	10	0	10	20
Illinois Blue	William Woods University A	10	10	10	30
Minnesota	Wisconsin B	10	0	10	20
Macalester	St. Thomas	0	0	10	10
Iowa State	Wisconsin A	10	10	10	30
Wisconsin C	Michigan Tech	0	0	10	10
Illinois Orange	Indiana B	10	0	10	20
Amherst B	Boston University B	10	0	10	20
Boston College A	Brandeis Mozart	0	0	10	10
Brown A	Dartmouth A	10	0	10	20
MIT A	Brown B	10	10	10	30
Harvard	Brandeis Beethoven	0	0	10	10
Amherst A	Tufts A	10	10	10	30
Vermont A	Tufts B	10	10	10	30
UConn A	Boston University A	10	0	10	20
Williams A	Vermont B	10	10	10	30
Williams B	Dartmouth B	0	0	10	10
Dartmouth C	Williams C	0	0	10	10
Washington Chum	Alberta B	0	0	10	10
Alberta A	Washington Atlantic	10	10	10	30
Texas	British Columbia B	10	0	10	20
British Columbia C	Washington State	0	0	10	10
Washington Steelhead	Washington Chinook	10	0	10	20
British Columbia A	Washington Coho	10	10	10	30
Washington Pink	Washington Masu	10	10	10	30
Central Oklahoma B	Tulsa B	10	0	10	20
Kansas State B	Kansas State A	0	0	10	10
Murray State College B	Murray State College A	10	0	10	20
Nebraska B	Nebraska A	10	0	10	20
Nebraska C	Oklahoma	10	0	10	20
Rose State	Harding	0	0	10	10
Central Oklahoma A	Tulsa A	10	0	10	20
Washington Sockeye	Arizona State A	10	0	10	20
Vanderbilt A	Alabama A	10	10	10	30
Auburn A	Tennessee Tech	10	0	10	20
Auburn C	Vanderbilt C	10	0	10	20
Chipola College	Clemson A	10	10	10	30
Clemson B	Montevallo	10	0	10	20
Clemson C	Sewanne	0	10	10	20
Georgia A	Emory A	10	10	10	30
Georgia Tech B	Auburn B	10	0	10	20
Georgia Tech C	Georgia Tech A	10	0	10	20
Georgia Tech E	Georgia Tech F	10	10	10	30
Mississippi State A	Vanderbilt B	10	10	10	30
South Carolina A	Tennessee A	10	10	10	30
Georgia Tech D	Tennessee B	0	0	10	10
Rochester	Binghamton C	10	0	10	20
Cornell A	Cornell D	0	0	10	10
Cornell C	Binghamton B	0	0	10	10
RIT A	ESF	10	0	10	20
Binghamton A	RIT B	10	10	10	30