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In this play, a poet’s recitation of the lines “How calmly does the orange branch / Observe the sky begin to blanch” merges with the sound of a marimba band. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this play in which a second recitation of those lines is interrupted by a man peeing on some luggage, and a third is transcribed by a tearful woman shortly before the poet’s death.
ANSWER: The Night of the Iguana
[10e] The Night of the Iguana was written by this playwright of Summer and Smoke, who also created the aspiring poet Tom Wingfield.
ANSWER: Tennessee Williams [or Thomas Lanier Williams III]
[10m] Summer and Smoke is titled after a line from this author’s poem “Emblems of Conduct.” The epigraph to A Streetcar Named Desire quotes lines about “the visionary company of love” from this author’s poem about a tower that contains “the bell-rope that gathers God at dawn.”
ANSWER: Hart Crane [or Harold Hart Crane] (The latter Crane poem is “The Broken Tower.”)
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TeamOpponentPart 1Part 2Part 3TotalParts
Arizona StateWaterloo B0101020EM
Cornell BYale0000
FloridaIllinois B010010E
Georgia StateJohns Hopkins1010020HE
HarvardMaryland010010E
Illinois AVirginia0101020EM
Iowa StateIndiana1010020HE
LSEVanderbilt1010020HE
MITWUSTL A010010E
MinnesotaMichigan010010E
North Carolina BTexas010010E
NorthwesternStanford010010E
OttawaCornell A010010E
Penn StateNYU0101020EM
Toronto AGeorgia Tech0101020EM
Toronto BWinona State0101020EM
Toronto CRIT10101030HEM
UCFOhio State0101020EM
WUSTL BColumbia A0000
Waterloo ANorth Carolina A10101030HEM

Summary

TournamentExact Match?HeardPPBEasy %Medium %Hard %
2025 ACF NationalsYes2015.5090%40%25%