Question
In a play set in this city, a teacher who returned after years in Manchester is surprised that one of her students knows the word “windbreaker.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this city that also partly titles a memoir centered on a professor’s experiences running an all-women book club in this city that discusses Western authors such as Vladimir Nabokov.
ANSWER: Tehran [accept Reading Lolita in Tehran]
[10e] The protagonist of this author’s semi-autobiographical graphic novel Persepolis leaves Tehran for France during the Iranian Revolution.
ANSWER: Marjane Satrapi
[10h] Iranian-American playwright Sanaz Toossi won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for this play, in which four adults prepare for the TOEFL exam at a storefront school where they are forbidden to speak Farsi.
ANSWER: English
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Summary
2024 ACF Regionals @ Cornell | 01/27/2024 | Y | 3 | 0.00 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
2024 ACF Regionals @ JMU | 01/27/2024 | Y | 6 | 10.00 | 50% | 50% | 0% |
2024 ACF Regionals @ Minnesota | 01/27/2024 | Y | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
2024 ACF Regionals @ Nebraska | 01/27/2024 | Y | 5 | 8.00 | 60% | 20% | 0% |
2024 ACF Regionals @ Ohio State | 01/27/2024 | Y | 2 | 25.00 | 100% | 100% | 50% |
2024 ACF Regionals @ Rutgers | 01/27/2024 | Y | 5 | 12.00 | 60% | 60% | 0% |
2024 ACF Regionals @ Imperial | 01/27/2024 | Y | 8 | 13.75 | 75% | 63% | 0% |
2024 ACF Regionals @ Vanderbilt | 01/27/2024 | Y | 4 | 15.00 | 50% | 75% | 25% |
Data
Columbia B | Columbia A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
NYU A | Columbia C | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
Penn | Johns Hopkins | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
NYU B | Vassar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Rowan | John Jay | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |