A Streetcar Named Desire - 2025 ACF Fall

Tossup

A character in this play complains about her relative Margaret, who had to be cremated because she was unable to fit in a coffin. In this play, a man (-5[1])quotes (10[1])the Napoleonic Code (10[2])to a woman (10[5])who (10[1])denies (10[3])that her sister (10[3])lived at (10[2])Hotel (10[2])Flamingo (10[2])in (10[1]-5[1])Laurel, (10[6])Mississippi. (10[6]-5[1])In this (10[1])play, (10[3])a (10[1])woman (10[1])dances (10[1])the (10[2])Varsouviana (10[3])(“var-so-VEE-ah-nuh”) polka (10[1])as her husband (10[1])Allan (10[1])commits (10[1])suicide (10[1])before losing her (10[1]-5[1])job as a (10[1])schoolteacher (10[5])and her family’s (10[2])historic (-5[1])home, (10[1]-5[1])Belle (10[1])Reve (10[8])(“rev”). After (10[1])being assaulted by Stanley (10[1])Kowalski, (10[10]-5[1])her (10[2]-5[1])sister (10[4]-5[1])Stella’s (10[7])husband, (10[2])the protagonist (10[1])of this play (10[3]-5[1])states (10[2])“I have (10[1])always (10[1])depended on the kindness of strangers.” (10[1]-5[1])For 10 points, name this play by Tennessee Williams (10[1])about Blanche (10[3])Dubois. ■END■ (10[9]0[5])

ANSWER: A Streetcar Named Desire

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Buzzes

Player	Team	Opponent	Position	Value
Jason Cottle	Clemson C	Clemson A	28	-5
Abbie Isabel	Edinburgh A	Durham D	29	10
James Meek	George Mason A	Columbia B	32	10
Darren Kellis	Vanderbilt A	Montevallo	32	10
Nikola Wu	UCLA D	Claremont B	35	10
Kara Braun	Michigan State B	Michigan State D	35	10
Camden Walker	WashU Grolars	Purdue B	35	10
Louis Harney	Georgia Tech B	Georgia A	35	10
Antony Bailey	York	Edinburgh C	35	10
Eric Zhu	Cornell D	Cornell B	36	10
Yoyo Liu	British Columbia C	Washington Masu	37	10
Devin Tharp	Chipola College	Georgia Tech C	37	10
Elliot Earley	Sheffield B	Edinburgh D	37	10
Margaret Withers	George Mason B	Rutgers C	40	10
Thomas Newill	Tufts C	Dartmouth B	40	10
Lauren Stamp	Cambridge A	Imperial B	40	10
Elizabeth Bowling	Indiana B	Purdue C	42	10
Trey Lewis	South Carolina A	Georgia Tech D	42	10
Wren Horne-Sarkees	Harvard	Tufts B	43	10
Nelson Adams-Riley	Sewanne	Mississippi State A	43	10
Tobias Cortes	Indiana A	William Woods University A	44	10
Aaron Bates	Washington Pink	Alberta B	44	10
Jack Marguiles	Stony Brook	Maryland A	45	-5
Barkot Belay	Emory A	Auburn B	45	10
Peyton Legg	UCF A	Florida State A	46	10
Brady Hagan	Ohio State B	Michigan State C	46	10
Abigail Lee	Virginia Tech C	UNC D	46	10
Emily Kadolph	Virginia Tech B	VCU A	46	10
Ilyas Choukri	Virginia Tech A	William & Mary C	46	10
Tevin Francis	Southampton	Imperial D	46	10
Sicheng Jiang	Toronto H	Waterloo B	47	10
Nate Brown	CWRU C	Michigan A	47	10
Levan Tsiskarisvili	JMU B	Duke A	47	10
Nathan Redford	Liberty A	UNC B	47	10
Sam Alahi	Illinois Orange	Chicago B	47	-5
James Haddix	Washington State	Washington Sockeye	47	10
Samarth Prajapati	Georgia Tech E	Georgia Tech A	47	10
Miriam Lee	Queen's A	McMaster B	49	10
Liam Rojas	Virginia A	William & Mary B	50	10
Samarth Majmudar	Illinois Urbana	WashU Grizzlers	50	10
Charlie Nicholls	Cambridge C	Oxford	50	10
Ethan Tran	UCLA C	UCSD A	51	10
Joe Paterson	Michigan State A	WVU B	52	10
Davis Johnson	Purdue A	Iowa A	53	10
Joseph Wang	UCLA E	UCLA A	54	10
Meredith Wiper	CWRU B	Michigan C	54	10
Ethan Enochian	Purdue D	Illinois Champaign	55	10
Michael Ai	Williams A	Boston College A	55	10
Jack Meyers	Brown B	Amherst B	55	10
Yuv Magan	UCSD B	USC A	56	10
Anne Fjeld	Alberta A	Washington Coho	59	10
Gannon Smith	Maryland A	Stony Brook	60	10
Sriram Koritala	Illinois Blue	Rose-Hulman A	61	10
David Zaslavsky	Brandeis Bach	Brown A	62	10
Hafsa Shaikh	Toronto I	Waterloo A	65	-5
Anthony Xu	Amherst A	Vermont A	65	10
Sean Gao	Toronto E	Toronto F	68	10
Lorie Au-Yeung	UCSC	Berkeley Little Prince	69	10
Charlotte Bauer	McGill C	Carleton A	69	10
Matthew Lam	Ohio State A	CWRU D	69	10
Jason Lee	Rutgers A	Vassar B	69	10
Keerthana Krishnan	Texas	Washington Atlantic	69	10
Winston Zuo	UC Santa Barbara	USC B	72	10
Andrew Lin	Toronto G	Toronto B	72	10
Connor King	St. Thomas	Iowa State	73	-5
Heidi Moyer	ERAU Daytona A	South Florida A	74	10
Taiki Takahashi	Dartmouth C	Boston College B	74	-5
Anjali Rao	Ottawa B	Ottawa C	75	10
Hansen Jin	Berkeley Skeleton King	Stanford B	76	10
Carter Yott	McMaster A	Brock A	76	10
Anna Bocook	Louisville D	Michigan D	76	10
Yiwei Jiang	NYU C	Vassar A	76	10
Sebastian Llaca	Wisconsin A	Wisconsin C	76	10
Britton Webster	Alabama A	Vanderbilt C	76	10
Rufus Gladwell	Durham A	Sheffield A	76	10
Megan Rowe	Cambridge D	Imperial C	76	10
Dylan Steptoe	Guelph A	McMaster C	77	10
Avery Becker	Berkeley Archer Queen	Berkeley Boss Bandit	81	10
Andrew Nucci	UCLA B	UC Irvine	82	-5
Katherine Mack	UC Irvine	UCLA B	82	10
John Rootham	Ottawa D	McGill E	82	10
Henry Siegler	Toronto D	Toronto A	82	10
Matthew Andersen	Florida B	Florida Tech B	82	10
Sai Subramanian	CWRU A	Ohio State D	82	10
Alex Wong	Rutgers D	Maryland C	82	10
Henry Bauer	NYU A	NYU B	82	10
John Shelly	Rowan	Johns Hopkins	82	10
Noah Lang	Wisconsin B	Macalester	82	10
Andrew Miller	Binghamton A	Binghamton C	82	10
Thomas Jenkins	Michigan B	Louisville B	83	-5
Alex Grigoriades	Lehigh A	Columbia A	83	10
Jolie Yeh	Warwick	Cardiff	83	10
Deepanshi Matai	Toronto C	Waterloo C	84	10
Jonah Chancio	JMU A	NCSU B	84	10
Mica Oestreich	Illinois Canada	Iowa B	84	10
Jonathan Schnipper	Brandeis Mozart	Dartmouth A	84	10
Will Hoover	RIT A	Cornell A	84	-5
Valerie Brown	Carleton B	McGill A	85	10
Alex Matchinski	Michigan Tech	Minnesota	85	10
Kyle Hart	MIT B	Williams B	85	10
Doug Frederick	Auburn A	Auburn C	85	10
Ben Lanahan	Clemson A	Clemson C	85	10
Shivam Saxena	Georgia Tech F	Tennessee A	85	10
Jonah McGinley	Rochester	ESF	85	10
Alan Fan	Washington Steelhead	Arizona State B	86	10
Astrid Kelley	RIT B	Binghamton B	86	10
Madeline Strauss	Tufts A	Boston University B	88	10
Diego Monge	Claremont C	UCLA F	91	-5
Elise Economou	Pittsburgh	Louisville C	91	10
Juan Diego Cisneros	Lehigh B	Maryland B	91	10
Alex Miller	Edinburgh B	Durham C	91	10
Brendan Liaw	British Columbia A	Washington Chinook	92	10
Jonas Cross	Tennessee Tech	Vanderbilt B	92	10
Sidarth Erat	MIT A	Brandeis Beethoven	94	10
John Gamble	NCSU A	Liberty B	95	10
Nishad Joshi	Kentucky	WVU A	101	-5
James Wan	Penn	Rutgers B	101	10
Diego Almaraz	UNC C	Tusculum A	110	10
Brody Johnson	Louisville B	Michigan B	112	10
Bryce Younger	Boise State	Washington Chum	112	10
Eve Gatley	Bristol	LSE	112	10
Tymen Koetsier	Berkeley Mighty Miner	Stanford A	114	10
Brian Hobmann	UCLA F	Claremont C	114	10
Maya Vardag	Waterloo A	Toronto I	114	10
June Miller	Florida A	Florida Tech A	114	0
Leighton Karpinia	Florida Tech A	Florida A	114	0
Alex McClanahan	WVU A	Kentucky	114	10
Abbi Tesreau	George Mason C	Princeton	114	0
Johnathan Ahdout	Princeton	George Mason C	114	10
Tishe Sonuga	Chicago B	Illinois Orange	114	10
Jacob Chambers	Iowa State	St. Thomas	114	10
Ethan Erickson	Boston College B	Dartmouth C	114	10
Brady Bier	Boston University A	Williams C	114	0
Nicholas Hall	Cambridge E	Birmingham	114	10
Derek Li	Cornell A	RIT A	114	0

Summary

Tournament	Edition	TUH	Conv. %	Neg %	Average Buzz
UK (North)	UK	5	100%	0%	53.60
UK (South)	UK	7	100%	0%	74.43
Northern California	US	4	100%	0%	85.00
Southern California	US	7	100%	29%	66.29
Eastern Canada (1)	US	4	100%	0%	77.75
Eastern Canada (2)	US	9	100%	11%	74.33
Florida	US	4	75%	0%	67.33
Great Lakes	US	11	100%	18%	70.73
Lower Mid-Atlantic	US	9	100%	0%	63.44
Upper Mid-Atlantic	US	12	100%	8%	76.00
Midwest	US	9	100%	11%	59.78
North	US	4	100%	25%	89.25
Northeast	US	12	92%	8%	71.36
Pacific	US	8	100%	0%	68.25
Southeast	US	12	100%	8%	58.67
Upstate NY	US	5	80%	20%	72.25