Question
A play by this author opens with a man in an Italian suit jacket and dress shirt, but no pants, posing for a painting by his wife modeled on Velázquez’s Portrait of Juan de Pareja (“puh-RAY-huh”). For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this playwright of Disgraced, in which Amir says that he felt “just a little bit of pride” on 9/11 while he and his wife Emily host another couple for dinner.
ANSWER: Ayad Akhtar
[10h] In this play, Gabe and Karen cook a meal for a couple whom they had set up 12 years prior, only for Beth to come alone and reveal that she and Tom are divorcing. Donald Margulies won a Pulitzer Prize for this play in 2000.
ANSWER: Dinner with Friends
[10e] In this 1962 two-couple play, George pretends that his imaginary son died in a car crash while he and Martha host Nick and Honey for drinks.
ANSWER: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
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Summary
| 2024 ACF Nationals | 2024-04-21 | Y | 20 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
Data
| Brown | McGill | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Chicago C | Minnesota A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Claremont Colleges | Columbia A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Columbia B | Michigan | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Cornell A | Toronto B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Harvard | Rutgers | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Illinois | Ottawa | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Indiana | Florida | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Kentucky | Toronto A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Duke | Minnesota B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| NYU | Johns Hopkins | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Berkeley A | North Carolina B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Northwestern | Stanford | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Maryland | Penn | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Purdue | Truman State | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| South Carolina | Chicago A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Texas | Cornell B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Yale B | Vanderbilt | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Virginia | North Carolina A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| WUSTL B | Yale A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |