Question
A naked woman holding a bulldog and a trident appears behind this play’s title character as he performs a song about “ordinary blokes,” “Thank God I’m Normal.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this play about Archie Rice, a fading music hall star who suffers the deaths of his father Billy and his son Mick.
ANSWER: The Entertainer
[10e] The Entertainer was written by John Osborne at the request of this actor. This iconic British stage actor appeared in blackface for a film version of Othello and had a French last name.
ANSWER: Laurence Olivier
[10m] The director of The Entertainer’s premiere, Tony Richardson, called Archie “the embodiment of a national mood” in his memoir titled for this sort of person. Smith defies the governor of his borstal in an Alan Sillitoe story titled for this sort of person.
ANSWER: long-distance runner [accept The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner; prompt on runner or athlete]
<HG, British Literature>
Summary
| 2023 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley | Premiere | Y | 2 | 10.00 | 50% | 50% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Carleton University | Premiere | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 67% | 67% | 33% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Claremont Colleges | Premiere | Y | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 0% | 100% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Duke | Emory, Duke, Yale | Y | 3 | 6.67 | 33% | 33% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Emory | Emory, Duke, Yale | Y | 4 | 5.00 | 50% | 0% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Imperial | Imperial | Y | 5 | 16.00 | 100% | 60% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Indiana | Premiere | Y | 5 | 12.00 | 80% | 40% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Maryland | Maryland, Online | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 67% | 67% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Ohio State | Ohio State, Texas | Y | 3 | 3.33 | 0% | 33% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA Online | Maryland, Online | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 67% | 67% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at RIT | Premiere | Y | 2 | 15.00 | 0% | 100% | 50% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Texas | Ohio State, Texas | Y | 3 | 10.00 | 67% | 33% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at WUSTL | Premiere | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 67% | 100% | 0% |
Data
| Birmingham | Imperial A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Bristol | Edinburgh | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Durham | Cambridge A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Oxford | Imperial B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Cambridge B | Warwick | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |