Question
James Earl Jones described audience members shouting “Drown the damn baby!” in response to a scene of this character with his illegitimate daughter Raynell. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this character who forces his son to work at A&P instead of pursuing a college football scholarship because of his bitter experience playing baseball after prison.
ANSWER: Troy Maxson [prompt on Maxson]
[10e] Jones premiered the role of Troy in this author’s play Fences. Denzel Washington has pledged to produce films of this author’s Pittsburgh Cycle.
ANSWER: August Wilson [or Frederick August Kittel Jr.]
[10h] At the funeral at the end of Fences, a “weight of impossible description…falls away” in response to this sound, after which the man who produced it pushes Lyons away and begins to howl and dance.
ANSWER: trumpet blast [accept word forms such as the sound of a trumpet; or horn blast; accept Gabriel’s trumpet or Gabriel’s horn; prompt on music; reject “English Horn blast” or “French Horn blast” or the sound of other instruments that aren’t a trumpet or horn]
<Literature - American Literature>
Summary
| 2024 Booster Shot (Columbia) | 02/23/2024 | Y | 5 | 20.00 | 100% | 60% | 40% |
| 2024 Booster Shot (Great Lakes) | 03/09/2024 | Y | 6 | 18.33 | 83% | 50% | 50% |
| 2024 Booster Shot (Vanderbilt) | 03/02/2024 | Y | 4 | 20.00 | 75% | 50% | 75% |
| 2024 Booster Shot (WUSTL) | 03/09/2024 | Y | 2 | 25.00 | 100% | 50% | 100% |
| 2024 Booster Shot (Waterloo) | 02/23/2024 | Y | 4 | 22.50 | 75% | 75% | 75% |
Data
| WUSTL | Michigan C | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| North Carolina | Penn State B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Penn State A | Vassar | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Ohio | Stanford | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Michigan B | Iowa State | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Case Western | Michigan A | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |