Packet 2: Bonus 18
Answer the following about refrigerators as symbols of working-class struggle in American theatre, for 10 points each.
[10e] This character exclaims that “once in my life I would like to own something outright before it’s broken” while bemoaning his perpetually broken Hastings refrigerator to his wife Linda in Death of a Salesman.
ANSWER: Willy Loman [or William Loman; prompt on Loman]
[10h] In this play, a girl talks to her family’s empty refrigerator, which her brother fills with artichokes. This play’s central family includes a girl working on a 4-H project about chicken butchery and a drunk who breaks their door.
ANSWER: Curse of the Starving Class (by Sam Shepard)
[10m] Bono finally agrees to buy a fridge for his wife on a bet with this play’s protagonist. A woman in this play asks her husband “don’t you think I had dreams and hopes?” after he reveals that his mistress Alberta is pregnant.
ANSWER: Fences (by August Wilson)
<TM, American Literature> | NAFTA-Packet-2
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 42 | 17.14 | 93% | 67% | 12% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NYU B or not NYU B (that is the question) | Negged Five Times in a Yellow Cab Against the Gottis and Gambinos | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Shipping Down from Ballston | Habitat 67 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Six Quizbowlers in Search of Owen Minmo | NYU A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Untitled Keyal Team | The "C" Team | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | EHM |
| Untitled by Alexander McQueen by Premeditated Chaos by Alexander McQueen by Percival Everett | Noah Sheidlower | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 NAFTA at Stanford | 01/17/2026 | ✓ | 4 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| 2026 NAFTA at UBC | 01/17/2026 | ✓ | 2 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA Online | 02/14/2026 | ✓ | 4 | 15.00 | 75% | 75% | 0% |
| 2026 NAFTA at Vanderbilt | 02/14/2026 | ✓ | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Toronto | 09/13/2025 | ✓ | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Toronto | 09/13/2025 | ✓ | 2 | 60.00 | 0% | 400% | 200% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Maryland | 09/27/2025 | ✓ | 5 | 16.00 | 100% | 60% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Harvard | 10/04/2025 | ✓ | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Oxford | 10/11/2025 | ✓ | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Chicago | 11/08/2025 | ✓ | 6 | 11.67 | 100% | 17% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Columbia | 11/08/2025 | ✓ | 5 | 16.00 | 100% | 40% | 20% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Richmond | 12/20/2025 | ✓ | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |