Machinal - 2025 ACF Winter

Question

The fourth “episode” of this play ends with its protagonist performing a long stream-of-consciousness monologue that ends by repeating the line “I’ll not submit.” For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this 1928 Expressionist play by Sophie Treadwell that ends with its protagonist, the “Young Woman” Helen Jones, being executed by electric chair for the murder of her husband.

ANSWER: Machinal

[10m] The penultimate episode of Machinal takes place during one of these events. The journalist H. L. Hornbeck covers one of these events in the play Inherit the Wind.

ANSWER: courtroom trials [accept Scopes Monkey trial; accept courtroom cases; prompt on cases]

[10e] Prior to writing Machinal, Treadwell sued John Barrymore for stealing Plumes in the Dust, her play about this author of “The Raven.”

ANSWER: Edgar Allan Poe

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Summary


Canada	Main	Y	6	15.00	100%	33%	17%
Florida	Main	Y	12	15.00	100%	42%	8%
Midwest	Main	Y	7	15.71	100%	57%	0%
Northeast	Main	Y	4	17.50	100%	75%	0%
Pacific Northwest	Main	Y	10	19.00	100%	90%	0%
South Central	Main	Y	5	20.00	100%	80%	20%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	6	16.67	100%	67%	0%
Upstate NY	Main	Y	7	15.71	100%	43%	14%
2025 ACF Nationals	2025-08-09	Y	2	20.00	100%	100%	0%

Data


UCLA C	UCI	0	0	10	10
UCLA B	Claremont Scripps	0	0	10	10
UCLA D	UCSD What Hath God Wrought	0	10	10	20
UCSB	USC	0	0	10	10
UCSD Two Running Violet V Forms	UCSD Vices and Virtues	0	0	10	10
Carleton	McGill B	0	10	10	20
McGill A	Toronto B	0	10	10	20
Queen's A	McGill C	0	0	10	10
Toronto C	Ottawa	0	0	10	10
Queen's B	Western Ontario	0	0	10	10
Toronto A	Guelph A	10	10	10	30
Toronto D	McMaster A	0	10	10	20
Toronto E	Waterloo	0	0	10	10
Toronto G	Toronto Metropolitan	0	10	10	20
McMaster C	Toronto I	0	0	10	10
Toronto F	Toronto J	0	0	10	10
Toronto K	Toronto H	0	0	10	10
Liberty A	North Carolina B	0	10	10	20
South Carolina A	Liberty B	0	10	10	20
Liberty C	Clemson A	0	0	10	10
North Carolina A	NC State	0	10	10	20
South Carolina B	Clemson B	0	0	10	10
Tusculum	Virginia Tech B	0	0	10	10
Virginia Tech A	North Carolina C	0	10	10	20
Rowan A	Columbia A	0	10	10	20
Lehigh A	Columbia B	0	10	10	20
Princeton A	Rutgers B	0	10	10	20
Rutgers C	Lehigh B	0	0	10	10
UCLA A	Claremont Pitzer	10	10	10	30
Illinois C	Chicago D	0	10	10	20
Michigan B	Illinois A	0	10	10	20
Notre Dame C	Indiana B	0	10	10	20
Louisville A	Notre Dame A	0	10	10	20
Louisville B	Chicago C	0	10	10	20
Michigan C	Purdue C	0	10	10	20
Michigan D	Illinois B	0	10	10	20
Purdue A	Notre Dame D	0	10	10	20
Iowa State	Macalester A	0	10	10	20
Minnesota A	Macalester B	0	10	10	20
St. Thomas	Minnesota B	0	10	10	20
Carleton	Nebraska	0	10	10	20
Wisconsin	Minnesota C	10	0	10	20
Arizona State A	UCO	0	10	10	20
Tulsa	Arizona State B	0	10	10	20
Iowa	Ohio	0	0	10	10
Northwestern B	McGill D	0	0	10	10
Northwestern A	Texas B	0	10	10	20
Texas A	Alberta B	0	10	10	20
Alabama B	Auburn B	0	10	10	20
Georgia Tech A	Auburn A	0	0	10	10
Bruin A	Georgia Tech C	10	10	10	30
Georgia Tech D	Georgia Tech B	0	0	10	10
Huntsville A	Alabama A	0	0	10	10
Huntsville B	Mississippi State A	0	0	10	10
Vanderbilt A	Vanderbilt B	0	10	10	20
Chicago A	Kentucky	0	10	10	20
Chicago B	Notre Dame B	0	0	10	10
Sheffield A	Southampton B	0	10	10	20
Durham A	Warwick A	0	10	10	20