Question
In the best-known song by a popular vaudeville duo, a man of this ethnicity is asked “Absolutely?” by his Jewish partner Mister Shean and responds “Positively!” For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this ethnicity stereotyped as drunken and buffoonish in a stage trope dubbed “Paddywhackery.”
ANSWER: Irish-American
[10h] This playwright included several comedic yet positive depictions of Irishmen in plays like The Shaughraun and The Colleen Bawn. This playwright adapted a Thomas Mayne Reid novel into a melodrama set at Terrebonne.
ANSWER: Dion Boucicault [or Dionysius Lardner Boucicault; or Dion Boursiquot] (The latter play is The Octoroon.)
[10m] Starting in the 1870s, the Irishman Dan Mulligan became a recurring comedic role in plays by Edward Harrigan and a coauthor with this surname. This is the alphabetically earlier surname of two playwrights who co-wrote You Can’t Take It with You and The Man Who Came to Dinner.
ANSWER: Hart [accept Tony Hart or Moss Hart] (Moss Hart’s coauthor was George Kaufman.)
<Morrison, Drama>
Summary
| 2024 ESPN @ Brown | 04/06/2024 | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
| 2024 ESPN @ Cambridge | 04/06/2024 | Y | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| 2024 ESPN @ Chicago | 03/23/2024 | Y | 6 | 16.67 | 100% | 50% | 17% |
| 2024 ESPN @ Columbia | 03/23/2024 | Y | 7 | 18.57 | 100% | 57% | 29% |
| 2024 ESPN @ Duke | 03/23/2024 | Y | 2 | 10.00 | 50% | 50% | 0% |
| 2024 ESPN @ Online | 06/01/2024 | Y | 3 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |