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]
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2024 Booster Shot (Columbia)02/23/2024Y520.00100%60%40%
2024 Booster Shot (Great Lakes)03/09/2024Y618.3383%50%50%
2024 Booster Shot (Vanderbilt)03/02/2024Y420.0075%50%75%
2024 Booster Shot (WUSTL)03/09/2024Y225.00100%50%100%
2024 Booster Shot (Waterloo)02/23/2024Y422.5075%75%75%

Data

WUSTLMichigan C10101030
North CarolinaPenn State B1010020
Penn State AVassar10101030
OhioStanford0101020
Michigan BIowa State010010
Case WesternMichigan A0000