Packet G: Bonus 10
David Rabe’s trilogy of plays about this war includes Sticks and Bones, which Christopher Durang parodied in a play set in suburban New Jersey. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this war that is the subject of plays like Terence McNally’s Botticelli and Shirley Lauro’s A Piece of My Heart, as well as Tim O’Brien’s collection The Things They Carried.
ANSWER: Vietnam War [or Second Indochina War or Chiến tranh Việt Nam or Kháng Chiến Chống Mỹ] (Durang’s play is The Vietnamization of New Jersey.)
[10h] This playwright’s La Turista allegorizes the Vietnam War via two tourists who grow ill in Mexico. In a play by this author, an old man wears a baseball cap to stop his amputee son from shaving his head while he sleeps.
ANSWER: Sam Shepard [or Samuel Shepard Rogers III]
[10m] A playwright with this surname depicted the amputee Vietnam veteran Kenneth Talley Jr. in the play Fifth of July. Another playwright with this surname created a brain-damaged veteran who blows a trumpet at his brother’s funeral.
ANSWER: Wilson [accept Lanford Wilson or August Wilson] (The latter play is Fences.)
<TM, American Literature> | Packet G - McMaster A, Notre Dame C, Rutgers A, NYU A
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 79 | 16.58 | 94% | 60% | 13% |
Conversion
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| California (North) | Main Site | ✓ | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| California (South) | Main Site | ✓ | 4 | 20.00 | 100% | 75% | 25% |
| Canada | Main Site | ✓ | 11 | 19.09 | 91% | 91% | 9% |
| Florida | Main Site | ✓ | 3 | 10.00 | 67% | 33% | 0% |
| Great Lakes | Main Site | ✓ | 5 | 12.00 | 80% | 20% | 20% |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | Main Site | ✓ | 9 | 16.67 | 100% | 56% | 11% |
| Midwest | Main Site | ✓ | 8 | 15.00 | 88% | 38% | 25% |
| Northeast | Main Site | ✓ | 6 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
| Overflow | Main Site | ✓ | 4 | 22.50 | 100% | 100% | 25% |
| South Central | Main Site | ✓ | 2 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| Southeast | Main Site | ✓ | 8 | 16.25 | 100% | 63% | 0% |
| UK | Main Site | ✓ | 12 | 15.83 | 92% | 42% | 25% |
| Upstate NY | Main Site | ✓ | 4 | 17.50 | 100% | 75% | 0% |