Question
Henry Dumas described his father “on the specimen table” in his poem titled “The Zebra Goes Wild” in this specific location. For 10 points each:
[10h] Describe this specific location which also names a collection whose title poem contains the declaration, “Yes we’ll walk with a walk that is measured and slow, And we’ll go where the chalk-white arrows go.”
ANSWER: where the sidewalk ends [accept the end of the sidewalk; prompt on sidewalk by asking, “Which part of the sidewalk?”; accept “The Zebra Goes Wild Where the Sidewalk Ends”]
[10e] Where the Sidewalk Ends is a collection by this scary-looking children’s author of The Giving Tree.
ANSWER: Shel Silverstein [or Sheldon Allan Silverstein]
[10m] Silverstein’s play The Devil and Billy Markham double-billed with this author’s play Bobby Gould in Hell. This author also wrote a play that begins in the middle of a conversation between two coworkers in a Chinese restaurant.
ANSWER: David Mamet [or David Alan Mamet] (The play is Glengarry Glen Ross.)
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Summary
| 2023 ILLIAC (Cornell) | 2023-10-21 | Y | 4 | 12.50 | 100% | 25% | 0% |
| 2023 ILLIAC (Mainsite) | 2023-10-21 | Y | 8 | 20.00 | 100% | 50% | 50% |
Data
| SIUE A | Chicago A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Purdue A | Chicago B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Chicago C | Michigan A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Ohio State A | Ohio State C | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Michigan B | Purdue B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Purdue C | Chicago D | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| SIUE B | Ohio State B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| WUSTL | Missouri | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |