Question
A man with this profession instructs the audience to clap three times before introducing the play and “summoning” God at the opening of Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s play Everybody. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this profession of an unnamed protagonist trying to write an autobiographical musical while battling six “intrusive thoughts.”
ANSWER: usher
[10e] An author with this first and last name created the self-described “fat, Black, queer” Usher in his Pulitzer-winning musical A Strange Loop. A 2021 musical about a singer with this name features the songs “Billie Jean” and “Beat It.”
ANSWER: Michael Jackson [accept Michael R. Jackson or Michael Joseph Jackson; prompt on Jackson]
[10m] A 2024 non-musical play by Michael R. Jackson adapts a film titled for these body parts. Jacobs-Jenkins added new material to an all-black production of a play titled for these plural body parts that features the Antrobus family and the maid Sabina.
ANSWER: teeth [accept The Skin of Our Teeth; prompt on skin]
<RK, American Literature>
Summary
2024 ARCADIA at BU | 2024-12-06 | Y | 5 | 16.00 | 100% | 60% | 0% |
2024 ARCADIA at Duke | 2024-12-06 | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
2024 ARCADIA at Missouri S&T | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 25.00 | 100% | 100% | 50% |
2024 ARCADIA Online | 2025-05-17 | Y | 4 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
2024 ARCADIA at Penn State | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
2024 ARCADIA at Florida Tech | 2024-12-06 | Y | 4 | 12.50 | 75% | 50% | 0% |
2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
2024 ARCADIA at Waterloo | 2024-11-09 | Y | 6 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
2024 ARCADIA at GT | 2024-12-06 | Y | 4 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
2024 ARCADIA at Illinois | 2024-11-09 | Y | 4 | 17.50 | 100% | 75% | 0% |
2024 ARCADIA at Warwick | 2024-12-06 | Y | 5 | 14.00 | 100% | 40% | 0% |
2024 ARCADIA at Claremont | 2024-11-02 | Y | 3 | 23.33 | 100% | 100% | 33% |
Data
Squidward Community College | Missouri | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
WashU | Truman | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |