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In a series of goodbyes at the end of this play, a character bemoans “clocks ticking and Mama’s sunflowers.”A (10[1])description of a “whitehaired lady” who has “eaten over fifty thousand meals with you” begins a scene in this play in which two characters order drinks from Mr. Morgan. A woman in this play takes her seat among rows of chairs representing graves after dying (10[1])in childbirth. In this play’s first act, discussion of the alcoholic choir director Simon Stimson foreshadows his later suicide. In this play, Emily Webb travels back to her twelfth birthday with (10[1])the help of the Stage Manager who narrates it. (10[1])For (-5[1])10 points, Grover’s Corners is the title setting of what play by Thornton Wilder? ■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: Our Town
<Literature - American Literature>
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Wade Rogers (DII)FordhamColumbia A1910
Ben Rotko (UG)Swarthmore BColumbia B6410
Claire Wilson (DII)LehighNYU A9510
Ashish KumbhardareRowanNYU B10410
Kaiden Carey (DII)PennSwarthmore A105-5
Udbhav Bodapati (DII)University of Delaware ANYU C12010
Frank Paz (DII)Swarthmore APenn12110

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2023 ACF Fall (Rutgers)10/14/2023Y6100%0%17%87.17