Question
When the title character of this play remembers his mother’s death, he focuses on the word “viduity” and the time he gave a ball to a dog instead of throwing it. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this one-act play in which a 69-year old man celebrates his birthday by listening to recordings he made when he was younger.
ANSWER: Krapp’s Last Tape
[10m] This Irish author wrote the plays Krapp’s Last Tape and Endgame as well as a play in which the slave Lucky is commanded to dance and “think!”
ANSWER: Samuel Beckett [or Samuel Barclay Beckett]
[10e] Lucky appears in this Beckett play in which Vladimir and Estragon are expecting the title character, who never shows up.
ANSWER: Waiting for Godot
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Summary
2024 ACF Fall at Cornell | fall | Y | 8 | 16.25 | 100% | 63% | 0% |
2024 ACF Fall at Ohio State | fall | Y | 7 | 21.43 | 100% | 86% | 29% |
2024 ACF Fall at Washington | fall | Y | 6 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
2024 ACF Fall at Georgia | fall | Y | 9 | 17.78 | 100% | 67% | 11% |
2024 ACF Fall at North Carolina | fall | Y | 10 | 14.00 | 90% | 40% | 10% |
2024 ACF Fall at Claremont Colleges | fall | Y | 5 | 20.00 | 100% | 80% | 20% |
2024 ACF Fall at Rutgers | fall | Y | 8 | 15.00 | 88% | 63% | 0% |
2024 ACF Fall at Illinois | fall | Y | 9 | 21.11 | 100% | 100% | 11% |
Data
Bard A (UG) | Fordham A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
Lehigh B (DII) | Rowan A (DII) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Lehigh A (UG) | Maryland A (DII) | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
NYU B | Columbia B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
Penn B (DII) | Maryland B (DII) | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
Columbia A (UG) | Princeton A (UG) | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
Rutgers A (UG) | NYU A (UG) | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
Rutgers B | Penn A (DII) | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |