Robert Lowell - 2024 PLAYTIME @ Harvard

Question

In a poem by this author, the speaker says, “You’ll walk to no purpose / in Hawthorne’s Salem.” For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this author of a play that adapts Hawthorne’s stories “Endecott and the Red Cross” and “My Kinsman, Major Molineux.” This author wrote a poem about a “monument [that] sticks like a fishbone / in the city's throat” set at the “old South Boston Aquarium.”

ANSWER: Robert Lowell [or Robert Traill Spence Lowell IV] (The lead-in is from “Hawthorne” and the second poem is “For the Union Dead.”)

[10e] An author from this country adapted Hawthorne’s story “Rappaccini’s Daughter” into a play that Daniel Catán, a composer from this country, used for an opera. This country was home to the author of Aura, Carlos Fuentes.

ANSWER: Mexico [or United Mexican States or Estados Unidos Mexicanos]

[10h] This author, who wrote about “La Negrita” in an adaptation of The Scarlet Letter titled In the Blood, also adapted Hawthorne in her play Fucking A.

ANSWER: Suzan-Lori Parks

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Summary


2025 PLAYTIME @ CWRU	12/10/2024	Y	5	10.00	60%	40%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Claremont	12/10/2024	Y	5	12.00	60%	40%	20%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Florida	12/10/2024	Y	2	25.00	100%	100%	50%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Florida	12/10/2024	Y	1	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 PLAYTIME @ Harvard	04/26/2025	Y	4	15.00	75%	50%	25%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Northwest	12/10/2024	Y	4	10.00	75%	25%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME Online	04/26/2025	Y	9	21.11	100%	78%	33%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Sheffield	12/10/2024	Y	6	10.00	67%	33%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Sheffield	12/10/2024	Y	1	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 PLAYTIME @ Virginia Tech	07/11/2025	Y	3	16.67	100%	33%	33%

Data


BU	Belmont	0	0	0	0
Brandeis	Harvard	10	10	0	20
Lexington	Brown	10	10	10	30
RIT	MIT	0	10	0	10