Question
In a play by this author, the title character asks Mrs. Baines to refuse a donation given by the whiskey distiller Horace Bodger. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this author who depicted the title character’s engagement to Adolphus Cusins in Major Barbara. He also described Eliza Doolittle’s tutelage under the phonetician Henry Higgins.
ANSWER: George Bernard Shaw
[10e] Eliza Doolittle begins that Shaw play, Pygmalion, selling these items. A William Wordsworth poem titled for a type of these things begins “I wandered lonely as a cloud.”
ANSWER: flowers [accept daffodils; accept flower girl]
[10h] In Major Barbara, Bill Walker slaps a female Salvation Army worker with this last name. In Pygmalion, Eliza Doolittle says, “Walk? Not bloody likely!” to a character with this last name who she later marries.
ANSWER: Hill [accept Freddy Eynsford-Hill or Jenny Hill; prompt on Eynsford]
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Summary
| 2024 ACF Fall at Cornell | fall | Y | 9 | 7.78 | 44% | 22% | 11% |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Ohio State | fall | Y | 8 | 11.25 | 63% | 50% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Washington | fall | Y | 6 | 11.67 | 50% | 67% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Georgia | fall | Y | 12 | 15.83 | 92% | 67% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Fall at North Carolina | fall | Y | 9 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Claremont Colleges | fall | Y | 5 | 16.00 | 80% | 80% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Rutgers | fall | Y | 9 | 14.44 | 78% | 67% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Illinois | fall | Y | 9 | 17.78 | 78% | 89% | 11% |
Data
| Purdue B | Chicago B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Illinois A | Northwestern A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Indiana | Illinois B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Illinois C | Illinois D | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Chicago A | Iowa A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| WashU B | Iowa B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Notre Dame A | Notre Dame C | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Purdue A | Notre Dame B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Purdue C | WashU A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |