Lehman Brothers - 2023 ACF Nationals

Question

In a play, one of this company’s founders collapses and dies after dancing the Twist to Sonny & Cher’s “The Beat Goes On.” For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this company that is tracked from its founding by immigrants to its fall in a Tony Award-winning play by Stefano Massini.

ANSWER: Lehman Brothers [or Lehman Bros.; or Lehman Brothers Inc.; accept The Lehman Trilogy]

[10e] Immigrants arrive in Ellis Island and work under harsh conditions in Amerike the Golden Land, a play in this language. The New York theater Folksbiene produced an appropriate adaptation of Fiddler on the Roof in this language.

ANSWER: Yiddish

[10m] This author’s plays concerning immigration and politics include On the Royal Road: The Burgher King, a reflection on Donald Trump narrated by a blind and bleeding Miss Piggy. This author wrote a novel about Erika Kohut’s sadomasochistic relationship with her student.

ANSWER: Elfriede Jelinek (“ell-FREE-duh YELL-in-ek”) (The novel is The Piano Teacher.)

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Summary


2023 ACF Nationals	04/22/2023	Y	21	18.57	95%	57%	33%

Data


UC Berkeley B	Columbia A	0	10	0	10
Indiana A	Columbia B	0	10	10	20
NYU A	Cornell B	0	10	10	20
Duke A	Chicago C	10	10	0	20
Imperial A	UC Berkeley A	10	10	0	20
Illinois A	Michigan A	10	10	10	30
Georgia Tech B	Minnesota B	0	10	0	10
Chicago A	Penn A	10	10	10	30
Rutgers A	Vanderbilt A	0	10	0	10
Texas A	WUSTL B	0	10	10	20
Purdue A	Yale B	10	10	0	20
Chicago B	Johns Hopkins A	0	10	10	20
Toronto A	Florida A	0	10	10	20
WUSTL A	South Carolina A	10	10	10	30
Ohio State A	Yale A	0	10	10	20
Georgia Tech A	MIT A	0	10	0	10
Minnesota A	Houston A	0	10	10	20
North Carolina A	Iowa State A	10	10	10	30
Northwestern A	Brown A	0	0	0	0
Cornell A	Virginia A	0	10	0	10
Maryland A	Harvard A	0	10	10	20