Arcadia - Southern California

Question

In this play, the tutor Septimus Hodge defines “carnal embrace” as “the practice of throwing one’s arms around a side of beef.” For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this play, whose two narratives alternate between 1809 and the present. In this play, Thomasina Cloverly uses the example of rice pudding to illustrate the Second Law of Thermodynamics.

ANSWER: Arcadia

[10m] Arcadia is a play by this British playwright. A coin lands on heads ninety-two times in a row in this playwright’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead.

ANSWER: Tom Stoppard [or Tomas Straussler]

[10e] The title characters from Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead originally appeared in this Shakespeare play. In this play, the title “Prince of Denmark” delivers the soliloquy “To be, or not to be.”

ANSWER: Hamlet [or The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark]

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Summary


Northern California	Main	Y	4	12.50	100%	25%	0%
Southern California	Main	Y	7	18.57	100%	86%	0%
Eastern Canada (1)	Main	Y	5	24.00	100%	100%	40%
Eastern Canada (2)	Main	Y	9	21.11	100%	78%	33%
Florida	Main	Y	4	15.00	100%	25%	25%
Great Lakes	Main	Y	11	22.73	100%	91%	36%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	9	17.78	100%	56%	22%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	1	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	9	23.33	100%	89%	44%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Midwest	Main	Y	9	21.11	100%	89%	22%
North	Main	Y	4	15.00	100%	50%	0%
Northeast	Main	Y	1	20.00	100%	100%	0%
Pacific	Main	Y	8	20.00	100%	100%	0%
South Central	Main	Y	6	16.67	100%	67%	0%
Southeast	Main	Y	12	20.83	100%	67%	42%
UK (North)	UK	Y	5	16.00	100%	60%	0%
UK (South)	UK	Y	8	21.25	100%	75%	38%
Upstate NY	Main	Y	5	14.00	100%	40%	0%

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Claremont B	Claremont C	10	10	20
UC Irvine	UCLA C	10	10	20
UCSD B	UC Santa Barbara	10	10	20
USC B	USC A	0	10	10
UCSD A	Claremont A	10	10	20
UCLA E	UCLA B	10	10	20
UCLA D	UCLA F	10	10	20