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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 in this (-5[1])city ends as a husband soothes his wife by repeating “Now, love” while swelling music is played by a “blue piano.” In a play set in this city, Catherine reveals 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 (10[1])a game of poker. (10[1]-5[1])This city is the setting of Suddenly Last Summer and a play in which Stanley Kowalski rapes Blanche (10[1])Dubois. For 10 points, Tennessee Williams’s play A Streetcar Named Desire is set in what Southern city? ■END■ (10[2])

ANSWER: New Orleans (The first clue is about Williams’s play Vieux Carré.)
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Eshan Pant (DII)NYU AHaverford55-5
Jason Qin (DII)Columbia CJohns Hopkins11510
Andrew HannaPennNYU B119-5
John Shelly (DII)RowanColumbia A11910
Tom Doyle (UG)VassarJohn Jay13710
Ethan Furman (DII)HaverfordNYU A15510
Zaid Asif (DII)NYU BPenn15510