the buried child - 2023 Penn Bowl @ UNC

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]

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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


Duke A	USC A	0	0	10	10
UNC B	UNC A	10	10	10	30
UNC C	USC B	0	10	10	20