Question
The G.S. Street censorship office noted that this phrase was “merely funny” as a mockery of a woman’s idea of “the new small talk.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Give this three-word phrase. Mrs. Patrick Campbell risked her career at a play’s 1914 premiere by delivering this line after a Cockney girl is asked if she is going to walk across a park.
ANSWER: “Not bloody likely!”
[10e] Newspapers censored Eliza Doolittle’s line as “Not Pygmalion likely!” in reviews for this Irish playwright.
ANSWER: George Bernard Shaw
[10m] Shaw attacked censorship of one play by claiming this character’s “climb from a fried fish shop down by the Mint” exemplifies “high English social values.” This character’s daughter Vivie discovers her title questionable “Profession.”
ANSWER: Mrs. Warren [or Kitty Warren; accept Mrs. Warren’s Profession]
<Ganon Evans, Literature - British - Drama> ~20095~ <Editor: Jaimie Carlson>
Summary
2023 PACE NSC | 06/10/2023 | Y | 17 | 14.71 | 94% | 29% | 24% |
Data
Belmont | Carl Sandburg | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
Chattahoochee B | Richard Montgomery | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Choate Rosemary Hall | Maggie Walker B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Detroit Catholic Central B | Thomas Jefferson A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
William Fremd | Detroit Catholic Central C | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
Hoover B | Detroit Country Day | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Winston Churchill A | Elkhorn North | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
Heights | Thomas Jefferson D | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
Irvington A | Washington | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
New Brighton | Dallas County | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Northmont B | Detroit Catholic Central A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Winnebago | Parkway West | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
Solon | Moberly | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Kinkaid | Stevenson A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
West Point | Dunbar | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Winston Churchill B | Barrington A | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Woodland | Lincoln-Way East | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |