Vietnam War - 2026 ACF Regionals

Question

David Rabe’s trilogy of plays about this war includes Sticks and Bones, which Christopher Durang parodied in a play set in suburban New Jersey. For 10 points each:

[10e] Name this war that is the subject of plays like Terence McNally’s Botticelli and Shirley Lauro’s A Piece of My Heart, as well as Tim O’Brien’s collection The Things They Carried.

ANSWER: Vietnam War [or Second Indochina War or Chiến tranh Việt Nam or Kháng Chiến Chống Mỹ] (Durang’s play is The Vietnamization of New Jersey.)

[10h] This playwright’s La Turista allegorizes the Vietnam War via two tourists who grow ill in Mexico. In a play by this author, an old man wears a baseball cap to stop his amputee son from shaving his head while he sleeps.

ANSWER: Sam Shepard [or Samuel Shepard Rogers III]

[10m] A playwright with this surname depicted the amputee Vietnam veteran Kenneth Talley Jr. in the play Fifth of July. Another playwright with this surname created a brain-damaged veteran who blows a trumpet at his brother’s funeral.

ANSWER: Wilson [accept Lanford Wilson or August Wilson] (The latter play is Fences.)

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Summary


California (North)	Main Site	Y	3	20.00	100%	100%	0%
California (South)	Main Site	Y	4	20.00	100%	75%	25%
Canada	Main Site	Y	11	19.09	91%	91%	9%
Florida	Main Site	Y	3	10.00	67%	33%	0%
Great Lakes	Main Site	Y	5	12.00	80%	20%	20%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	Y	9	16.67	100%	56%	11%
Midwest	Main Site	Y	8	15.00	88%	38%	25%
Northeast	Main Site	Y	6	13.33	100%	33%	0%
Overflow	Main Site	Y	4	22.50	100%	100%	25%
South Central	Main Site	Y	2	20.00	100%	100%	0%
Southeast	Main Site	Y	8	16.25	100%	63%	0%
UK	Main Site	Y	12	15.83	92%	42%	25%
Upstate NY	Main Site	Y	4	17.50	100%	75%	0%

Data


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