Question
In a one-act play, this man greets his friend Dave at a bar in Hell, explaining that Hell is better because Heaven has Bill Kunstler and Purgatory has “Lionel Trilling [and] the New York Review of Books.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this historical figure. In another play, the ghost of a woman persecuted by this man sings the Yiddish folk song “Tumbalalaika” as he dies, then guides a kaddish over his body.
ANSWER: Roy Cohn [or Roy Marcus Cohn] (The play in the lead-in is G. David Schine in Hell.)
[10e] Roy Cohn’s final days are fictionalized in this two-part Tony Kushner play, whose subtitle is “A Gay Fantasia on National Themes.”
ANSWER: Angels in America [or Angels in America: a Gay Fantasia on National Themes]
[10h] In his introductory monologue, Cohn wishes he were one of these animals. In his final line, Cohn tells the ghost of Ethel Rosenberg he wants to be reincarnated as one of these animals before dying.
ANSWER: octopuses [or octopi; or octopodes]
<Maryland B, American Literature>
Summary
| Florida | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 6.67 | 67% | 0% | 0% |
| Great Lakes | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 11.67 | 100% | 17% | 0% |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 11.67 | 67% | 33% | 17% |
| Midwest | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 13.33 | 83% | 50% | 0% |
| North | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| Northeast | 2025-02-01 | Y | 5 | 10.00 | 60% | 20% | 20% |
| Overflow | 2025-02-01 | Y | 5 | 20.00 | 100% | 60% | 40% |
| Pacific Northwest | 2025-02-01 | Y | 2 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| South Central | 2025-02-01 | Y | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| Southeast | 2025-02-01 | Y | 4 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| UK | 2025-02-01 | Y | 10 | 16.00 | 100% | 40% | 20% |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | Y | 8 | 17.50 | 100% | 50% | 25% |
| Upstate NY | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 10.00 | 67% | 33% | 0% |
Data
| Rutgers A | Cornell B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| George Washington A | Columbia C | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Maryland A | George Washington B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Vassar A | Haverford A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Penn B | Haverford B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Columbia B | John Jay College | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| NYU A | Penn A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Johns Hopkins A | Yale A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |