Bonus
This character claims that without art, “man would be a coffee-mill” that can only “Eat—grind—shit. Hunt—eat—fight—grind—saw the logs—shit.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this monocle-wearing character who tries to impress Gwendolen by cutting up the words of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18 and pulling them out of a hat.
ANSWER: Tristan Tzara [or Tristan Tzara; or Samuel Rosenstock or S. Samyro]
[10m] Tristan Tzara, Vladimir Lenin, and James Joyce mingle with the diplomat Henry Carr in a public library in 1917 Zurich in this 1974 comedy.
ANSWER: Travesties (by Tom Stoppard)
[10e] Tom Stoppard’s Travesties fictionalizes Joyce and Carr’s real-life attempt to stage a production of this play. Tzara and Carr are urged to take up the roles of Jack and Algernon in this Oscar Wilde play.
ANSWER: The Importance of Being Earnest
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Conversion
Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
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Arizona State | UC Berkeley A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
British Columbia | Winona State | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | ME |
Chicago A | Minnesota | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | ME |
Chicago B | Rutgers | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
Cornell A | Harvard | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | ME |
Cornell B | Florida | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
Georgia State | UC Berkeley B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
Illinois A | Toronto C | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | ME |
Illinois B | Indiana | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
LSE | Waterloo A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | ME |
MIT | Yale | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | ME |
Maryland | Ottawa | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
Michigan | Columbia A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | ME |
NYU | Virginia | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | ME |
North Carolina A | Vanderbilt | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | ME |
RIT | Penn State | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
Stanford | Ohio State | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | ME |
Texas | Columbia B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | ME |
Toronto A | North Carolina B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | ME |
Toronto B | WUSTL B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | ME |
Virginia Tech | UCF | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | ME |
WUSTL A | Iowa State | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | HME |
Summary
Tournament | Exact Match? | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
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2025 ACF Nationals | Yes | 22 | 17.27 | 100% | 68% | 5% |