George Bernard Shaw - 2025 ACF Fall

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This playwright described an air raid on the inventor Captain Shotover’s home in his play Heartbreak (10[1])House. In a play by this (-5[1])author, (10[1])the “chocolate-cream soldier” (10[1])Bluntschli (10[3]-5[1])falls in love with Raina during the Serbo-Bulgarian (10[1])War. A character created by this playwright receives a massive inheritance after jokingly being called the “most original moralist (10[1])... in (10[1])England.” This author (10[2])scandalized audiences (10[1])with the line “Walk? Not bloody likely!” (10[2])in a play that opens at (10[1])Covent Garden. (10[1])In that play by this (10[1])author, Colonel Pickering (10[1])bets (10[1])that (10[3])Henry Higgins (10[1])can’t make (10[2])Eliza Doolittle (10[1])sound (10[2])like (10[1])a duchess. For 10 points, name this (-5[1])playwright of (-5[1])Arms and the Man and Pygmalion. ■END■ (10[5]0[3])

ANSWER: George Bernard Shaw [or Bernard Shaw]

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Player	Team	Opponent	Position	Value
Aaron Bates	Washington Pink	Washington Steelhead	15	10
Anne Fjeld	Alberta A	Arizona State A	21	-5
James Meek	George Mason A	NYU A	22	10
Devin Tharp	Chipola College	Vanderbilt A	25	10
Gannon Smith	Maryland A	Maryland B	26	-5
Anthony Xu	Amherst A	Dartmouth A	26	10
Maisie Quinn	Brown B	Williams B	26	10
Eric Zhu	Cornell D	RIT A	26	10
Charles Xin	British Columbia A	Washington State	34	10
Matthew Kohn	Williams A	Brown A	53	10
Davis Johnson	Purdue A	WashU Grizzlers	55	10
Christian Humeniuk	McMaster A	Toronto B	58	10
Margaret Withers	George Mason B	Rutgers D	58	10
Julian Moody	Tufts A	Vermont B	60	10
Sophia Peng	Rutgers C	Vassar B	67	10
Micah Lauzon	Dartmouth B	Boston College A	67	10
Simarya Ahuja	Washington Sockeye	Arizona State B	73	10
Kayla Drajpuch	Brandeis Bach	Tufts B	75	10
John Shelly	Rowan	George Mason C	80	10
Rae Meyers	Arizona State A	Alberta A	83	10
Ben Mowery	Vermont A	UConn A	84	10
Magnolia Schnirman Barría	NYU B	Rutgers B	85	10
Arlene Lopez	Stony Brook	Penn	85	10
Thomas Newill	Tufts C	Southern Connecticut State University A	85	10
Jason Lee	Rutgers A	Maryland C	87	10
Jonathan Schnipper	Brandeis Mozart	MIT A	89	10
Alan Zhang	British Columbia C	British Columbia B	89	10
Owen Gibbs	Boston College B	Boston University B	91	10
Tri Lam	Washington Chum	Texas	92	10
Harry Sexton	Edinburgh A	Sheffield B	92	10
Eric Morshed	Johns Hopkins	Vassar A	93	10
Nathan Phan	Princeton	Lehigh A	100	-5
Jaime Wang	Washington Atlantic	Alberta B	102	-5
Renita Tang	NYU C	Columbia B	109	10
Andrew Wu	Columbia A	Lehigh B	109	0
Nathan Zhao	Maryland B	Maryland A	109	10
Alex Mayernick	Lehigh A	Princeton	109	0
Kaushik Jayaprabha	Dartmouth C	Harvard	109	0
Luke Simon	Alberta B	Washington Atlantic	109	10
Haylee Weisner	Washington Masu	Washington Coho	109	10
Oliver Morten	Cardiff	Cambridge B	109	10

Summary

Tournament	Edition	TUH	Conv. %	Neg %	Average Buzz
UK (North)	UK	1	100%	0%	92.00
UK (South)	UK	1	100%	0%	109.00
Eastern Canada (2)	US	1	100%	0%	58.00
Upper Mid-Atlantic	US	12	83%	17%	79.50
Midwest	US	1	100%	0%	55.00
Northeast	US	11	91%	0%	65.60
Pacific	US	8	100%	25%	75.50
Southeast	US	1	100%	0%	25.00
Upstate NY	US	1	100%	0%	26.00