Packet 8: Bonus 17
In a play’s opening scene, a man of this profession describes a dead elderly woman whom he did not know as “not a person but a whole kind of person, the ones who crossed the ocean.” For 10 points each:
[10m] The same actress who plays an old Bolshevik plays a man of what profession who gives the opening eulogy of Angels in America? A man of this profession gets a play about his culture shut down in Paula Vogel’s Indecent.
ANSWER: rabbis [or rebbes; prompt on clergy]
[10h] A rabbi is tasked with an exorcism as soon as his synagogue can attain a quorum in this author’s play The Tenth Man. This screenwriter of Marty wrote the line “I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not going to take this anymore!”
ANSWER: Paddy Chayefsky [or Sidney Aaron Chayefsky] (The second film is Network.)
[10e] Both Indecent and The Tenth Man draw on plays in this language, God of Vengeance and The Dybbuk respectively. A rabbi also appears in the musical Fiddler on the Roof, which adapts stories in this language.
ANSWER: Yiddish
<TM, American Literature> | NAFTA-Packet-8
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 | 14.50 | 100% | 30% | 15% |
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Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 NAFTA at Stanford | 01/17/2026 | ✓ | 4 | 12.50 | 100% | 25% | 0% |
| 2026 NAFTA at UBC | 01/17/2026 | ✓ | 2 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA Online | 02/14/2026 | ✓ | 4 | 20.00 | 100% | 50% | 50% |
| 2026 NAFTA at Vanderbilt | 02/14/2026 | ✓ | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 33% | 33% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Toronto | 09/13/2025 | ✓ | 5 | 14.00 | 100% | 40% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Richmond | 12/20/2025 | ✓ | 2 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |