Question

In a play about people with this trait, Bernard claims that the play’s title concept “would be a shock.” Sam Shepard starred in the US premiere of that play, Caryl Churchill’s A Number, in which all three of Salter’s sons have this trait. In a novel, the Morningdale scandal turns public opinion against people with this trait. (15[2])The Cottages is a housing (-5[1])complex for people (-5[1])with this trait, including a woman writing an essay about (*) Victorian fiction. A school for people with this trait requires them to create works of art that are confiscated by Madame. (10[1])People without this trait are housed on a “Savage Reservation” in Brave New World, and the Bokanovsky process (-5[1])creates people with it. For 10 points, name this trait of the artificial organ donors who attend the boarding school Hailsham in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go. ■END■ (10[2])

ANSWER: cloned people [or clones; accept lab-grown or artificial before read; accept identical twins or twins; prompt on descriptions of people used for organ harvesting with “By what process were they created?”]
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Sam MooreGressenheller ASorted5615
Percy YuenSee itLimp Chriskit5615
Albery NyangLSE3HK1MM61-5
Ben Russel JonesFour Times I Have Despised My SoulSay it64-5
Michael Mays3HK1MMLSE9510
Ethan WebbThe Crying of Team 49Oxford School for Quizness113-5
Ben LaFondSay itFour Times I Have Despised My Soul14210
Eileen PengOxford School for QuiznessThe Crying of Team 4914210

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