Packet M: Bonus 4
In a play by this author, the younger members of the Lafayette family discover a photo album of lynchings while going through their dead father’s belongings. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this playwright of Appropriate and Gloria. Naz returns home amid a slew of family scandals in a Pulitzer-winning play by this author in which his father Solomon is a thinly-veiled depiction of Jesse Jackson.
ANSWER: Branden Jacobs-Jenkins (The latter play is Purpose.)
[10m] Jacobs-Jenkins adapted a Dion Boucicault melodrama set at one of these locations, where couples role-play in a Jeremy O. Harris play. In another play, Oscar Hubbard inherits one of these places when he marries Birdie.
ANSWER: plantations [prompt on estates; prompt on houses or homes] (Harris’s play is Slave Play, and the latter play is The Little Foxes.)
[10e] Jacobs-Jenkins has stated that the Jasper family matriarch in his play Purpose exists in dialogue with Lena Younger from this Lorraine Hansberry play.
ANSWER: A Raisin in the Sun
<Columbia A, American Literature> | Packet M - Columbia A, Ohio State A, Maryland A, Toronto C, Clemson A, Notre Dame A
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 49 | 13.27 | 92% | 35% | 6% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Birmingham | LSE | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Cambridge A | Imperial A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| Cambridge C | Oxford C | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Cardiff | Imperial C | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| City St. George's | Warwick B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Durham | Imperial B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| Edinburgh A | Bristol | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | HE |
| Edinburgh B | Southampton A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Manchester | Cambridge B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| Oxford A | Warwick A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Oxford B | Southampton B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | HME |
| UCL | Montpellier | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| California (South) | Main Site | ✓ | 4 | 10.00 | 75% | 25% | 0% |
| Canada | Main Site | ✓ | 10 | 14.00 | 90% | 40% | 10% |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | Main Site | ✓ | 1 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | Main Site | ✓ | 6 | 11.67 | 100% | 17% | 0% |
| Midwest | Main Site | ✓ | 8 | 13.75 | 88% | 50% | 0% |
| Northeast | Main Site | ✓ | 5 | 16.00 | 100% | 60% | 0% |
| Overflow | Main Site | ✓ | 3 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| UK | Main Site | ✓ | 12 | 14.17 | 92% | 33% | 17% |