Question

An actor from this family named his cottage for The Count of Monte Cristo after starring in a dramatic adaptation of it over 6,000 times. That cottage inspired the setting of a play by an author from this family about 16-year-old Richard Miller, which begins on July 4. An actress from this family dated J. D. Salinger and was disowned by her father for eloping with Charlie Chaplin. Phil Hogan’s landlord James is based on a member of this real-life family in the [emphasize] sequel to a play in which a fictionalized member of this family complains about a foghorn. An author from this family wrote A Moon for the Misbegotten as part of a series of plays that fictionalized his morphine-addict mother as Mary Tyrone. For 10 points, what family was fictionalized by one of its members in Long Day’s Journey into Night? (10[1]0[1])■END■

ANSWER: O’Neill family [accept James O’Neill or Oona O’Neill or Jamie O’Neill or Ella O’Neill or Eugene O’Neill; prompt on Mary Ellen Quinlan; prompt on Lady Chaplin until “Chaplin” is read] (The play in the second sentence is Ah, Wilderness!)
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Chase BarrickLehigh APenn State B1430
Robert WangPenn State BLehigh A14310

Summary

2024 ACF Winter at UC Berkeley2024-11-16Y2100%0%100%142.50
2024 ACF Winter at Lehigh2024-11-16Y1100%0%0%143.00
2024 ACF Winter at Northwestern2024-11-16Y989%0%22%98.25
2024 ACF Winter at Online2024-11-16Y8100%0%0%110.88
2024 ACF Winter at UBC2024-11-16Y3100%0%0%115.00
2024 ACF Winter at Central Florida2024-11-16Y560%0%40%143.00
2024 ACF Winter at Oxford2024-11-16Y888%0%13%119.71