Question
An alcoholic man starts coughing on the floor to stop his son from telling Shelly about the fate of this character. For 10 points each:
[10h] Identify or describe this unnamed character from a play. This character is born from an incestuous relationship between a corn farmer and his mother Halie, before being murdered by the family’s patriarch.
ANSWER: the buried child [or the baby from Buried Child; or Tilden’s child; or Dodge’s grandchild; prompt on baby with “from what play?”]
[10m] This American playwright of Buried Child wrote about Wesley Tate butchering his brother Weston’s lamb in Curse of the Starving Class, another tragedy in his Family Trilogy.
ANSWER: Sam Shepard [or Samuel Shepard Rogers III]
[10e] Shepard co-wrote “Brownsville Girl” with this singer-songwriter who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2016.
ANSWER: Bob Dylan [or Robert Dylan, or Robert Allen Zimmerman]
<Darren Petrosino, American Literature>
Summary
| 2023 Penn Bowl @ Waterloo | 10/28/2023 | Y | 4 | 15.00 | 100% | 25% | 25% |
| 2023 Penn Bowl @ FSU | 10/28/2023 | Y | 2 | 5.00 | 50% | 0% | 0% |
| 2023 Penn Bowl (Harvard) | 10/21/2023 | Y | 3 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2023 Penn Bowl (Mainsite) | 10/21/2023 | Y | 7 | 14.29 | 100% | 29% | 14% |
| 2023 Penn Bowl (Norcal) | 10/28/2023 | Y | 2 | 25.00 | 100% | 100% | 50% |
| 2023 Penn Bowl (South Central) | 10/28/2023 | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
| 2023 Penn Bowl (UK) | 10/28/2023 | Y | 5 | 20.00 | 100% | 80% | 20% |
| 2023 Penn Bowl @ UNC | 10/28/2023 | Y | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 67% | 33% |
Data
| Oklahoma A | Texas C | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Oklahoma B | Rice | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Texas A | Texas B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |