Question

A play set in this city ends after an unnamed writer, a stand-in for the author, leaves a boarding house run by Mrs. Wire. In another play set in this city, a mother says that her son almost joined a Buddhist monastery after watching birds eat baby turtles in the Galápagos. A play set (10[1])in this city ends as a husband soothes his wife by repeating “Now, love” while swelling music is played by a “blue piano.” In (-5[1])a play set in this city, Catherine reveals (10[1])that while staying in Cabeza de Lobo, Sebastian Venable was “devoured” by children. In another play set in this city, a man throws a radio out of a window during a game of poker. (10[1])This city (10[1])is the setting of Suddenly Last Summer and a play in which Stanley Kowalski (-5[1])rapes (10[2])Blanche Dubois. (10[2])For 10 points, Tennessee Williams’s play A Streetcar Named Desire is set in what (10[1])Southern city? ■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: New Orleans (The first clue is about Williams’s play Vieux Carré.)
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Caleb Kendrick (Grad)Maryland A (Grad)JMU B (UG)5310
Ivan Stanisavljevic (DII)Duke A (UG)UNC B (UG)77-5
Kenny Zhang (UG)Virginia A (UG)GWU B (Grad)8510
Charlotte Goeb (UG)Virginia B (UG)UNC D (DII)11910
Diego Almaraz (UG)UNC C (UG)Liberty B (DII)12110
Perry O'Connor (Grad)Liberty A (Grad)Liberty C (DII)135-5
Nathan Redford (DII)Liberty C (DII)Liberty A (Grad)13610
Duncan Griffiths (UG)William & Mary A (UG)Virginia C (UG)13610
Benjamin McAvoy-Bickford (DII)UNC A (Grad)Maryland B (UG)13810
Andrew Amygdalos (UG)GWU A (UG)Maryland C (DII)13810
Aleks Kozlowski (DII)Roanoke College A (DII)JMU A (UG)15210
Ivvone Zhou (UG)UNC B (UG)Duke A (UG)15510