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In this play, two characters who compare themselves to shipwrecked sailors clinging to wreckage decide to get married after one takes the other's job. In this play, a broken hairpin is discovered by a mailbox that contains two letters marked with black crosses. A year-long trip to Italy saved the life of a character from this play. In this play, a fisher-girl costume is sewn so a character nicknamed (10[1])“my little squirrel” can dance the tarantella at a ball. To keep his bank job, Krogstad blackmails the protagonist of this play over forging her father’s signature. For 10 points, the sound of a door slamming ends what Henrik Ibsen play about Nora Helmer? ■END■

ANSWER: A Doll’s House [or Et dukkehjem]
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PlayerTeamOpponentPositionValue
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Summary

TournamentEditionTUHConv. %Neg %Average Buzz
UK (North)UK1100%100%113.00
UK (South)UK1100%0%56.00
Eastern Canada (2)US1100%0%68.00
Upper Mid-AtlanticUS1292%8%84.18
MidwestUS1100%0%19.00
NortheastUS11100%9%81.36
PacificUS8100%13%92.38
SoutheastUS1100%0%42.00
Upstate NYUS1100%0%73.00