Michael Frayn - 2026 ACF Regionals

Question

In a play by this author, a plate of sardines is involved in mishaps like sticking to a man’s hand and getting dumped over a woman’s head. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this author of the farce Noises Off. This author also wrote Copenhagen, in which the ghosts of Bohr and Heisenberg discuss a 1941 meeting in the title city.

ANSWER: Michael Frayn

[10e] Frayn’s Noises Off is centered on one of these literary devices directed by the character Lloyd Dallas. Another example of this literary device is Pyramus and Thisbe in A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

ANSWER: play within a play [accept fictional play; accept descriptions of a performance in a play; accept nested play; prompt on play]

[10h] In this play, the playwright Henry writes the play-within-a-play House of Cards. In this play, Henry’s partner Anne asks him to ghostwrite a play for the soldier Brodie, who is imprisoned after setting fire to the Cenotaph.

ANSWER: The Real Thing (by Tom Stoppard)

<Purdue, British Literature>

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California (North)	Main Site	Y	3	20.00	100%	100%	0%
California (South)	Main Site	Y	4	10.00	75%	25%	0%
Canada	Main Site	Y	12	13.33	83%	42%	8%
Florida	Main Site	Y	3	16.67	67%	67%	33%
Great Lakes	Main Site	Y	5	16.00	100%	40%	20%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	Y	9	10.00	67%	22%	11%
Midwest	Main Site	Y	8	16.25	88%	63%	13%
Overflow	Main Site	Y	4	20.00	100%	75%	25%
South Central	Main Site	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
Southeast	Main Site	Y	7	14.29	100%	43%	0%
UK	Main Site	Y	12	11.67	92%	25%	0%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	Y	8	12.50	75%	50%	0%
Upstate NY	Main Site	Y	4	12.50	75%	25%	25%

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Berkeley B	Berkeley D	10	10	0	20
Berkeley A	Stanford A	10	10	0	20
Berkeley C	Stanford B	10	10	0	20
UCSD C	UCLA B	0	0	0	0
UCSD B	UC Irvine	0	10	0	10
Arizona State	UC Santa Barbara	0	10	0	10
UCLA A	UCSD A	10	10	0	20
Toronto G	Brock	0	10	0	10
Guelph	Carleton University	0	10	0	10
Toronto B	McMaster A	10	10	10	30
McMaster B	Western B	0	0	0	0
Toronto C	McGill B	0	10	0	10
Toronto D	Toronto F	0	0	0	0
McGill A	Toronto E	0	10	0	10
UBC A	Ottawa	10	10	0	20
UBC B	Waterloo B	10	10	0	20
Waterloo A	Queen's	10	10	0	20
Toronto Metropolitan	Western A	0	10	0	10
Simon Fraser	Western C	10	10	0	20
Central Florida A	Florida B	10	10	0	20
Florida A	Central Florida B	0	0	0	0
Central Florida C	Florida C	10	10	10	30
South Carolina B	Duke	0	10	0	10
North Carolina C	James Madison B	0	0	0	0
Liberty A	NC State B	0	10	0	10
NC State A	North Carolina A	0	10	0	10
North Carolina B	James Madison A	0	0	0	0
South Carolina A	Liberty C	0	10	0	10
VCU	Liberty B	0	0	0	0
Virginia Tech A	William and Mary	10	10	10	30
Virginia Tech B	Wake Forest	10	10	0	20
Chicago A	Northwestern C	10	10	0	20
Chicago C	Indiana B	10	10	0	20
Chicago D	Illinois C	0	0	0	0
Indiana A	Chicago E	10	10	10	30
Illinois A	Indiana C	10	10	0	20
Illinois B	Northwestern D	10	10	0	20
Purdue B	Notre Dame A	0	10	0	10
Chicago B	Notre Dame B	0	10	0	10
Michigan C	CWRU B	0	10	0	10
Michigan A	CWRU A	0	10	0	10
Pittsburgh	Michigan B	10	10	0	20
Ohio State A	Ohio State B	10	10	10	30
Michigan State	Ohio State C	0	10	0	10
Minnesota A	Washington B	10	10	0	20
Georgia Tech A	Carleton College	10	10	0	20
Claremont	Missouri B	0	10	0	10
Missouri A	Iowa State	10	10	10	30
Texas A	Texas A&M A	10	10	0	20
Texas B	Murray State A	0	10	0	10
Louisville A	Bruin	10	10	0	20
Kentucky	Alabama B	0	10	0	10
Georgia Tech B	Tennessee B	10	10	0	20
WashU B	Georgia Tech D	0	10	0	10
Imperial A	City St. George's	0	10	0	10
Imperial C	LSE	0	10	0	10
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Montpellier	Cambridge A	10	10	0	20
Cambridge C	Bristol	0	10	0	10
Birmingham	Cardiff	10	10	0	20
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Cambridge B	Oxford B	0	10	0	10
Durham	UCL	0	10	0	10
Oxford C	Warwick A	0	0	0	0
Warwick B	Southampton B	0	10	0	10
Maryland C	Catholic	0	10	0	10
John Jay	Swarthmore	10	0	0	10
Johns Hopkins A	Columbia C	10	10	0	20
Maryland A	Columbia B	10	10	0	20
NYU A	Georgetown	10	10	0	20
NYU B	Johns Hopkins B	0	10	0	10
Rutgers A	NYU C	0	10	0	10
Rutgers B	Vassar	0	0	0	0
Georgia Tech C	Sewanee	0	10	0	10
Binghamton A	Cornell A	0	0	0	0
RIT	Binghamton B	0	10	0	10
Tennessee A	Vanderbilt B	0	10	0	10
Penn State	Cornell B	10	10	10	30
Cornell C	Rochester	0	10	0	10
WashU A	Louisville B	10	10	0	20