Question
In a play titled for this substance, La Negrita kills her son Jabber for calling her a slut. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this substance that is “on the leaves” and “at the root” in the lyrics to a song that mentions the “Scent of magnolias, sweet and fresh.”
ANSWER: blood [accept In the Blood]
[10h] This author of the play In the Blood wrote a play in which Booth plays three card monte with his brother, the impersonator Lincoln.
ANSWER: Suzan-Lori Parks (The play is Topdog/Underdog.)
[10e] Parks wrote the screenplay for a 2021 biopic titled The United States vs. this singer. This singer, nicknamed “Lady Day,” popularized Abel Meeropol’s poem “Strange Fruit.”
ANSWER: Billie Holiday [or Eleanora Fagan; accept The United States vs. Billie Holiday]
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