Question
A woman dressed in feathers decides to not go to this event after her daughter calls her “Betty the loon,” her nickname in high school. For 10 points each:
[10h] Identify this event from a 1965 play, during which two girls give speeches interrupted by gongs. One of those girls proclaims, “the day will come when mankind will thank God for the strange and beautiful energy from the atom.”
ANSWER: the science fair from The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds [prompt on science competition; prompt on fair]
[10m] While her children are at the science fair in that Paul Zindel play, Beatrice chloroforms one of these animals. Elwood claims to have an invisible “pooka” friend who resembles one of these animals in Mary Chase’s Harvey.
ANSWER: rabbit [or bunny]
[10e] The other girl in the science fair boiled off the skin of one of these animals for her experiment. In a play with one of these animals in its title, Brick Pollitt reveals that he hasn’t gotten over the death of his friend Skipper.
ANSWER: cat [accept Cat on a Hot Tin Roof] (by Tennessee Williams)
<Literature - American Literature - Drama>
Summary
| 2024 ARGOS @ Chicago | 11/23/2024 | Y | 6 | 16.67 | 100% | 50% | 17% |
| 2024 ARGOS @ Columbia | 11/23/2024 | Y | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| 2024 ARGOS @ McMaster | 11/17/2024 | Y | 5 | 10.00 | 60% | 40% | 0% |
Data
| Ryan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan Quizbowlers | Tensei Shitara Flashcard Data Ken | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Moderator Can't Neg me While in Alpha | She Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA Interfere | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Simpson Agonistes: The Crisis of Donut | You cannot go to Aarhus to see his peat-brown head / With eyes like ripening fruit | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| The Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork Orange | Communism is Soviet power plus the yassification of the whole country | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| I'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up | as rational as the square root of two power bottoms | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |