Question

In a poem, a woman with this surname “shouldered her cross, put her worldly goods aside” and had the sun “rest on her shoulders bringing the heat and the light of truth.” A real-life woman with this surname is the second namesake of a poem stating how people “never understand that all the while I was quite happy.” An author with this surname wrote two plays inspired by The Scarlet Letter, one depicting Hester with five illegitimate children. In the Blood is by an author with this surname, who wrote about the (*) slicing of a nylon stocking holding a $500 inheritance before a game of three-card monte by Booth and Lincoln. In a poem, (10[1])Nikki Giovanni paired her first name with an activist with this surname who, in a Rita Dove poem, is “On the Bus.” For 10 points, give (10[2])this surname of the author of Topdog/Underdog and the latter activist in “Nikki-Rosa.” ■END■ (0[2])

ANSWER: Parks [or Rosa Parks; or Suzan-Lori Parks]
<Noah Sheidlower, American Literature>
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Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Danny PeelenPittsburghMichigan State11310
Jack LengaCarnegie MellonOhio State C13910
Aryan DesarapuMichigan AMichigan B13910
Mohamad MusaOhio State BOhio State A1530
Jacob GoodsonOhio State AOhio State B1530

Summary

2024 Penn Bowl UNC10/26/2024Y3100%0%0%110.67
2024 Penn Bowl Florida10/26/2024Y2100%0%50%130.00
2024 Penn Bowl Harvard10/26/2024Y4100%0%0%118.00
2024 Penn Bowl UK10/26/2024Y5100%20%20%122.20
2024 Penn Bowl Berkeley11/02/2024Y2100%100%0%76.00
2024 Penn Bowl Mainsite11/02/2024Y367%33%33%97.50
2024 Penn Bowl CWRU11/02/2024Y475%0%0%130.33
2024 Penn Bowl Chicago11/02/2024Y8100%38%25%118.25
2024 Penn Bowl Texas11/02/2024Y250%0%0%110.00