Question
While travelling in this country, a playwright saw the “Kilroy was here” meme, which led him to write a play set in it with a protagonist named Kilroy. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this country which is also the setting of a play in which a disgraced pastor-turned-tour guide pursues a girl staying at a hotel with her grandfather Nonno.
ANSWER: Mexico [or United Mexican States; or Estados Unidos Mexicanos]
[10e] Those aforementioned plays, Camino Real and The Night of the Iguana, were written by this author of A Streetcar Named Desire.
ANSWER: Tennessee Williams [or Thomas Lanier Williams III]
[10h] In Camino Real, this real-life figure leaves by boarding a ship with his birds. In a different play, it is revealed that a monkey bite, and not this person, killed the author of “The Couch of Eros.”
ANSWER: Lord Byron [or George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron] (The other play is Arcadia by Tom Stoppard.)
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Summary
| 2023 ILLIAC (Cornell) | 2023-10-21 | Y | 4 | 7.50 | 75% | 0% | 0% |
| 2023 ILLIAC (Mainsite) | 2023-10-21 | Y | 8 | 16.25 | 100% | 38% | 25% |
Data
| Cornell Earth | Columbia Ly-α | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Cornell Wind | Cornell Fire | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| RIT | Rochester A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Rochester B | Rochester C | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |