The Night of the Iguana - 2025 ACF Nationals

Bonus

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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Conversion

Team	Opponent	Part 1	Part 2	Part 3	Total	Parts
Arizona State	Waterloo B	0	10	10	20	EM
Cornell B	Yale	0	0	0	0
Florida	Illinois B	0	10	0	10	E
Georgia State	Johns Hopkins	10	10	0	20	HE
Harvard	Maryland	0	10	0	10	E
Illinois A	Virginia	0	10	10	20	EM
Iowa State	Indiana	10	10	0	20	HE
LSE	Vanderbilt	10	10	0	20	HE
MIT	WUSTL A	0	10	0	10	E
Minnesota	Michigan	0	10	0	10	E
North Carolina B	Texas	0	10	0	10	E
Northwestern	Stanford	0	10	0	10	E
Ottawa	Cornell A	0	10	0	10	E
Penn State	NYU	0	10	10	20	EM
Toronto A	Georgia Tech	0	10	10	20	EM
Toronto B	Winona State	0	10	10	20	EM
Toronto C	RIT	10	10	10	30	HEM
UCF	Ohio State	0	10	10	20	EM
WUSTL B	Columbia A	0	0	0	0
Waterloo A	North Carolina A	10	10	10	30	HEM

Summary

Tournament	Exact Match?	Heard	PPB	Easy %	Medium %	Hard %
2025 ACF Nationals	Yes	20	15.50	90%	40%	25%