Question
One of the earliest modern plays in this language, which translates as “City of Darkness,” describes a foolish king being fooled into hanging himself by a holy man and his two disciples. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this language used for the 2022 International Booker-winning novel Tomb of Sand, which details the journey of the 80-year-old Ma.
ANSWER: Hindi
[10h] Modern Hindi plays were greatly influenced by earlier Sanskrit plays, like a play about this character from the Puranas who affirms her love through a message on a birch leaf.
ANSWER: Urvasi
[10e] Bengali literature has gained widespread international recognition due to the reputation of this Nobel Prize-winning author of the play The Post Office and the poetry collection Gitanjali.
ANSWER: Rabindranath Tagore [or Rabindranath Thakur]
Summary
| 2023 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley | Premiere | Y | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Carleton University | Premiere | Y | 3 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Claremont Colleges | Premiere | Y | 1 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Indiana | Premiere | Y | 4 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at RIT | Premiere | Y | 2 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at WUSTL | Premiere | Y | 3 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
Data
| McDouble West-Carleton | Waterloo | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Ottawa A | Ottawa C | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Toronto Ray of Sun in the Sky | Ottawa B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |