William Butler Yeats - 2025 ACF Winter

Question

In his book Passionate Action, David Richman describes this author’s relationship with theatre as “a struggle for mastery against a set of conventions that he both adored and loathed.” For 10 points each:

[10e] Name this co-founder of the Abbey Theatre who also wrote “things fall apart; the center cannot hold” in “The Second Coming.”

ANSWER: William Butler Yeats

[10m] Yeats said “You have disgraced yourselves again” after riots broke out at the Abbey Theatre during this play. In this Sean O’Casey play, Nora goes mad after her husband is killed during the 1916 Easter Rising.

ANSWER: The Plough and the Stars

[10h] Five sisters sing a version of Yeats’s “Down by the Salley Gardens” in one play by this author. This author’s play Translations opens in a hedge school in the fictional town Baile Beag (“BOL-eh byug”).

ANSWER: Brian Friel (The first play mentioned is Dancing at Lughnasa.)

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Summary


California	Main	Y	5	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Canada	Main	Y	6	10.00	67%	17%	17%
Florida	Main	Y	12	7.50	67%	0%	8%
Great Lakes	Main	Y	5	4.00	40%	0%	0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	7	11.43	86%	14%	14%
Midwest	Main	Y	10	8.00	70%	10%	0%
North	Main	Y	10	12.00	60%	30%	30%
Northeast	Main	Y	5	8.00	80%	0%	0%
Overflow	Main	Y	4	12.50	100%	25%	0%
South Central	Main	Y	5	4.00	40%	0%	0%
Southeast	Main	Y	12	7.50	67%	8%	0%
UK	Main	Y	4	10.00	50%	25%	25%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	8	12.50	88%	38%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley	04/19/2025	Y	4	5.00	50%	0%	0%

Data


Berkeley C	Berkeley B	10	0	0	10
Berkeley D	Berkeley E	10	0	0	10
Berkeley F	UCSC	10	0	0	10
Stanford B	Berkeley A	10	0	0	10
Stanford A	Stanford C	10	0	0	10
Claremont Scripps	UCLA D	0	0	0	0
UCLA A	UCLA B	10	0	10	20
Claremont Pitzer	UCLA C	0	0	0	0
Guelph A	Carleton	10	0	0	10
McGill B	McMaster C	0	0	0	0
Toronto H	McGill C	10	0	0	10
Queen's A	McMaster A	10	0	0	10
Ottawa	Toronto Metropolitan	10	0	0	10
Toronto A	Toronto G	10	0	10	20
Guelph B	Toronto B	0	0	0	0
Toronto C	Toronto J	10	0	0	10
Toronto D	McGill A	10	0	0	10
Toronto I	Western Ontario	0	0	0	0
Toronto K	McMaster B	10	0	0	10
Waterloo	Queen's B	0	0	0	0
UCSD Two Running Violet V Forms	UCI	10	0	0	10
UCSD Vices and Virtues	UCSB	10	0	0	10
USC	UCSD What Hath God Wrought	10	10	0	20
FIU	UF E	0	0	0	0
UF C	FSU	0	0	0	0
UF B	UCF B	10	0	0	10
UCF A	UF A	10	0	0	10
UF D	USF	0	0	0	0
CWRU D	CWRU C	10	0	0	10
OSU A	CWRU B	10	10	0	20
OSU B	OSU C	10	0	0	10
Tennessee A	Clemson A	10	0	0	10
James Madison	Clemson B	0	0	0	0
Virginia A	Liberty A	10	10	0	20
Liberty C	Liberty B	0	0	0	0
North Carolina A	North Carolina B	10	0	0	10
Tusculum	Roanoke	10	0	0	10
South Carolina A	Virginia Tech A	10	0	0	10
North Carolina C	South Carolina B	10	0	0	10
NC State	Tennessee B	0	0	0	0
Virginia Tech B	Virginia B	10	0	0	10
MSU A	OSU D	10	0	0	10
MSU B	Pitt C	10	0	10	20
CWRU A	Pitt A	10	0	0	10
Pitt B	Kenyon B	0	0	0	0
George Mason A	UMBC A	10	0	0	10
Maryland B	George Washington B	10	10	10	30
Maryland D	Georgetown B	0	0	0	0
George Mason B	Johns Hopkins A	10	0	0	10
Johns Hopkins C	George Mason C	0	0	0	0
Maryland A	VCU A	10	10	10	30
Georgetown A	Penn A	10	10	0	20
NYU A	Maryland C	10	0	10	20
George Washington A	NYU B	0	0	0	0
Johns Hopkins B	Penn B	0	0	0	0
Columbia A	Rutgers C	10	0	0	10
Columbia B	Columbia C	10	0	0	10
Princeton A	Lehigh A	10	0	0	10
Swarthmore A	Vassar A	10	0	0	10
WashU C	Missouri A	10	10	0	20
SIUE	WashU D	10	0	0	10
Minnesota B	Macalester A	10	0	0	10
Wisconsin	Macalester B	10	0	0	10
Carleton	St. Thomas	0	0	0	0
Dartmouth	Amherst A	10	0	0	10
Brown B	BC A	0	0	0	0
Yale B	BC B	0	0	0	0
Brandeis Clemenceau	BU	10	0	0	10
Amherst B	Bowdoin B	0	0	0	0
Brandeis Wilson	Brandeis Lloyd George	10	0	0	10
Cornell-UG	Brown A	10	0	0	10
MIT B	Brown C	10	0	0	10
MIT A	Yale A	10	10	0	20
Brandeis Orlando	Tufts A	0	0	0	0
Tufts B	Bowdoin A	10	0	0	10
Williams	Harvard	10	0	0	10
WashU A	Missouri B	10	0	0	10
William Woods	WashU B	10	0	0	10
Minnesota C	Minnesota A	0	0	0	0
Iowa State	Nebraska	0	0	0	0
British Columbia D	Alberta	10	10	0	20
British Columbia A	Simon Fraser	10	0	10	20
British Columbia B	Washington A	0	0	0	0
British Columbia C	Washington B	0	0	0	0
Texas A	Arizona State B	10	10	0	20
McGill D	Iowa	10	0	0	10
Texas B	Ohio	10	0	0	10
Tulsa	UTD A	10	0	0	10
UCO	Rose State	10	0	0	10
Arizona State A	Alberta B	10	10	0	20
Rowan A	Rutgers B	0	0	0	0
RIT A	Cornell-DII	10	0	0	10
Syracuse	ESF	10	0	0	10
Northwestern A	UTD B	10	10	0	20
Northwestern B	Northwestern C	0	0	0	0
Binghamton A	RIT B	0	0	0	0
Rochester	Binghamton B	0	0	0	0