Question
This playwright adapted the structure of Everyman for his 2008 play Afterlife. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this British playwright, who wrote a farce where the alcoholic Selsdon Mowbray frustrates Lloyd Dallas, the director of the play-within-a-play Noises On.
ANSWER: Michael Frayn (the unnamed play is Noises Off)
[10e] In Frayn’s play Copenhagen, Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg appear as these beings. Prince Hamlet’s father, King Hamlet, appears only as one of these beings.
ANSWER: Ghosts [or spirits]
[10m] In Frayn’s novel Headlong, Martin Clay thinks he has discovered a painting in this artist’s series The Months. A poem based on a painting by him describes how “About suffering they were never wrong, the old Masters.”
ANSWER: Pieter Bruegel the Elder [or Pieter Brueghel the Elder; reject “Pieter Brueghel the Younger”] (the unnamed poem is “Musee des Beaux Arts” by W.H. Auden)
<Literature - British Literature>
Summary
| 2024 Booster Shot (Columbia) | 02/23/2024 | Y | 6 | 21.67 | 100% | 67% | 50% |
| 2024 Booster Shot (Great Lakes) | 03/09/2024 | Y | 6 | 25.00 | 100% | 83% | 67% |
| 2024 Booster Shot (Vanderbilt) | 03/02/2024 | Y | 4 | 12.50 | 100% | 25% | 0% |
| 2024 Booster Shot (WUSTL) | 03/09/2024 | Y | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 67% | 33% |
| 2024 Booster Shot (Waterloo) | 02/23/2024 | Y | 4 | 22.50 | 100% | 50% | 75% |
Data
| Iowa State | Iowa | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Ohio | Michigan A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| North Carolina | Vassar | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Michigan B | Penn State A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Stanford | Ohio State | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| WUSTL | Case Western | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |