Question
The author of The Book of Lamentations directed puppet plays for this ethnic group, who lead the Monkey Business Theater. For 10 points each:
[10m] What ethnic group created a dance-drama about Charlemagne’s 12 knights? Their annually-staged play about the “Man of Rabinal” (“rah-bee-NAHL”) inspired Sunmoon by a Nobel laureate who created a rebel of this ethnicity named Gaspar.
ANSWER: Maya peoples [or Mayans; accept Kʼicheʼ, Yucatec Maya, Tzotzil, Tzeltal, Chontal, Yokotʼanob, or Yokotʼan] (Rosario Castellanos worked for the National Institute of Indigenous Peoples. The Monkey Business Theater is the Lo’il Maxi. The Rabinal Achi inspired Soluna by Miguel Ángel Asturias.)
[10e] Specific term required. Both Guatemalan Maya dance-dramas and Panamanian congadas adapted Valencian “conquest dances” about the defeat of these people. Othello is called one of them “of Venice.”
ANSWER: Moors [accept The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice; accept Moors and Christians or Moros y Cristianos or Danza de los Moros]
[10h] An old version of Moros y Cristianos was conserved near Nicaragua’s “folklore capital” of Masaya, whose San Jeronimo festival stages this satirical Nahua-Spanish drama likely derived from Mangue (“MANG-gay”) performances.
ANSWER: El Güegüense (“gway-GWEN-say”) [or El Cuecuence; or Macho Ratón or Macho Mouse] (The village of Niquinohomo preserved a version of Moros y Cristianos that may be close to the original text.)
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Summary
| 2024 ACF Nationals | 2024-04-21 | Y | 20 | 11.50 | 100% | 5% | 10% |
Data
| Brown | Johns Hopkins | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Chicago A | Chicago B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Florida | Columbia B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Berkeley A | Iowa State | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Michigan | Maryland | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Cornell A | North Carolina A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Kentucky | North Carolina B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Illinois | Northwestern | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Claremont Colleges | Penn | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Rutgers | Ottawa | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Stanford | Columbia A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Indiana | Texas | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Georgia Tech | Toronto A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Truman State | Chicago D | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Vanderbilt | McGill | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| WUSTL A | Minnesota A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Duke | WUSTL B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Purdue | Waterloo | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Yale A | NYU | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Yale B | Toronto B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |