Round 11: Tossup 19

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

ANSWER: George Bernard Shaw [or Bernard Shaw]
<Editors, British Literature> | Packet M
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Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzzpointValue
Christian HumeniukMcMaster AToronto B5810

Summary

TournamentEditionMatchHeardConv. %Neg %Avg. Buzz
Eastern Canada (2)Main1100%0%58.00
Upper Mid-AtlanticMain1283%17%79.50
MidwestMain1100%0%55.00
NortheastMain1191%0%65.60
PacificMain8100%25%75.50
SoutheastMain1100%0%25.00
Upstate NYMain1100%0%26.00
UK (North)UK1100%0%92.00
UK (South)UK1100%0%109.00