Question

While telling the story of how she met her husband at a party when she was a girl, one character in this play says that she always drinks elderberry wine to cure hiccups. This play ends after the concerned question, “Are you afraid, Mama?” While searching through a bank, a character in this play discovers a baby shoe and a violin string. The moral servants in this play’s prequel, (-5[1])(*) Another Part of the Forest, is reflected (10[1])in this play by a servant’s warning about “people who eat the earth.” In this play, Leo steals Union Pacific bonds worth $80,000. At the climax of this play, the protagonist withholds medicine from her wheelchair-bound husband Horace, allowing him to die of a heart attack. For 10 points, name this play about the scheming Regina Giddens by Lillian Hellman. ■END■ (10[1]0[1])

ANSWER: The Little Foxes
<JP, American Literature>
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Nathan ZhangCornell WindRochester A68-5
Raymond WangCornell EarthRIT7510
Ryan XuCornell FireRochester B1360
Forrest WeintraubColumbia Ly-αRochester C13610

Summary

2023 ILLIAC (Cornell)2023-10-21Y450%0%25%105.50
2023 ILLIAC (Mainsite)2023-10-21Y888%13%0%108.29