Question
In a monologue, a woman describes the deaths of this object’s previous owners, such as a Spanish invader killed by a kettle-mender named Childerich. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this object. The discovery of a wig and the footprints of a club-footed person in Marthe’s garden lead Adam to nervously argue that the Devil was instead responsible for an incident involving this object.
ANSWER: the broken jug [or the broken pitcher; or Der zerbrochne Krug]
[10m] The Broken Jug is a play by this author. A pregnant noblewoman places a newspaper announcement to find the father of her child so that she can marry him in this author’s story “The Marquise of O.”
ANSWER: Heinrich von Kleist
[10e] A Kleist essay about theater involving these objects notes that “grace appears most purely” in these objects and “in God.” Carlo Collodi’s character Pinocchio is also one of these objects.
ANSWER: marionettes [or puppets] (The essay is “On the Marionette Theater.”)
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Summary
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Nebraska | 01/27/2024 | Y | 5 | 18.00 | 100% | 80% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Ohio State | 01/27/2024 | Y | 1 | 0.00 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Imperial | 01/27/2024 | Y | 4 | 12.50 | 75% | 50% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Vanderbilt | 01/27/2024 | Y | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ MIT | 01/27/2024 | Y | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
Data
| Geodesic | Georgia Tech A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |