Packet 24: Bonus 11
In a play titled for one of these events, Leon Trotsky and his wife argue whether a tool is an ice pick or a mountain climber’s axe. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this sort of event, whose “variations” title that play. In another play titled for one of these events, Biff resents his father after walking in on his extramarital affair.
ANSWER: deaths [accept word forms such as dying; accept Variations on the Death of Trotsky or Death of a Salesman] (Death of a Salesman is by Arthur Miller.)
[10h] Variations on the Death of Trotsky is a play by an author with this first name. A play by a different playwright with this first name describes a real estate sales competition between Ricky Roma, Shelley Levene, and others.
ANSWER: David [accept David Ives or David Mamet] (The play is Glengarry Glen Ross.)
[10e] In another David Ives play, a man becomes trapped in an anomalous pocket of reality named for this city. In that play, a sign of being trapped in the anomaly is receiving this city’s signature cheese steak.
ANSWER: Philadelphia [or Philly; accept The Philadelphia]
<Editors, American Literature> | Packet J
| Editions | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 120 | 19.92 | 100% | 69% | 30% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carleton A | McGill E | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | MHE |
| McGill A | McGill C | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| McGill B | Ottawa D | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Ottawa B | Ottawa A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | MHE |
| Ottawa C | Carleton B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | ME |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Exact Match? | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Northern California | US | Y | 4 | 20.00 | 100% | 75% | 25% |
| Southern California | US | Y | 7 | 20.00 | 100% | 86% | 14% |
| Eastern Canada (1) | US | Y | 5 | 22.00 | 100% | 80% | 40% |
| Eastern Canada (2) | US | Y | 9 | 16.67 | 100% | 44% | 22% |
| Florida | US | Y | 4 | 12.50 | 100% | 25% | 0% |
| Great Lakes | US | Y | 12 | 21.67 | 100% | 67% | 50% |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | US | Y | 9 | 21.11 | 100% | 78% | 33% |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | US | Y | 10 | 17.00 | 100% | 50% | 20% |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | US | Y | 2 | 20.00 | 100% | 50% | 50% |
| Midwest | US | Y | 9 | 22.22 | 100% | 100% | 22% |
| North | US | Y | 4 | 17.50 | 100% | 50% | 25% |
| Northeast | US | Y | 11 | 20.00 | 100% | 64% | 36% |
| Pacific | US | Y | 8 | 21.25 | 100% | 75% | 38% |
| South Central | US | Y | 7 | 17.14 | 100% | 71% | 0% |
| Southeast | US | Y | 13 | 23.85 | 100% | 85% | 54% |
| Upstate NY | US | Y | 6 | 18.33 | 100% | 67% | 17% |