Question
David Ragin is told to “believe in independent men” like Huckleberry Finn after asking this object’s owner what he has against the “machine” this week. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this object that titles a 1964 play. This object, which bears the slogans, “Clean Up Community Politics” and “Wipe Out Bossism,” hangs outside a Greenwich Village apartment.
ANSWER: the sign in Sidney Brustein’s window [or the sign in Sidney Brustein’s window; prompt on sign]
[10e] The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window is by this author, whose husband Robert Nemiroff adapted her personal writings into the play To Be Young, Gifted and Black.
ANSWER: Lorraine Hansberry [or Lorraine Vivian Hansberry]
[10h] Sidney’s wife Iris has this maiden name, which her sister Mavis points out is associated with the ancient Greek chorus. This word referred to both a side entrance for the chorus and the chorus’s first ode.
ANSWER: parodus [or parodos]
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Summary
| 2024 ACF Nationals | 2024-04-21 | Y | 22 | 14.55 | 96% | 50% | 0% |
Data
| Arizona State | Duke | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Berkeley B | Harvard | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Purdue | Chicago A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Texas | Chicago B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Chicago C | Kentucky | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Columbia A | Cornell A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Claremont Colleges | Columbia B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Ottawa | Florida | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Illinois | Berkeley A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| WUSTL A | Indiana | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Brown | Iowa State | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Johns Hopkins | Toronto A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Maryland | Yale A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Georgia Tech | NYU | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Minnesota A | North Carolina A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| North Carolina B | McGill | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Northwestern | Michigan | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Penn | Toronto B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Cornell B | Truman State | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Vanderbilt | Chicago D | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Rutgers | Virginia | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Waterloo | Stanford | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |