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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AlbertaUW Gluttony1010020
Arizona State AUW Lust100010
Arizona State BUW Envy1010020
Boise StateUBC A0000
UBC BUW Sloth1010020
UW ChastityUW Pride0000