Round 7: Tossup 9

In a play set in this city, the lights go out before five women recite an “Ode to Bingo” to the audience. A playwright based in this city wrote of boxer and mathematician siblings whose mother requests in her will to be buried face down without a coffin. In a landmark 1965 play set in this city, 15 women paste a million stamps that were won in a sweepstakes. Wajdi Mouawad lives in this city, the setting of a play whose title translates to The Sisters-in-Law. A 2010 film adapts a play in which (*) twins from this city search for their father in a Lebanon-like (10[1])country, titled Incendies (“ahn-sawn-DEE”). A narrator from this city liaises with “F” and obsesses over an Indigenous saint in the amphetamine-fueled novel Beautiful Losers. For 10 points, the songwriter of “Suzanne” and “Hallelujah,” Leonard Cohen, was born in what (10[1])Canadian city? ■END■

ANSWER: Montréal [accept Westmount] (Les Belles-sœurs is by Michel Tremblay.)
<HA, World Literature> | NAFTA-Packet-7
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Summary

TournamentEditionMatchHeardConv. %Power %Neg %Avg. Buzz
2026 NAFTA at Stanford01/17/2026475%25%50%122.67
2026 NAFTA at UBC01/17/20262100%0%0%123.00
2025 NAFTA Online02/14/2026475%25%0%107.33
2026 NAFTA at Vanderbilt02/14/202630%0%0%
2025 NAFTA at Toronto09/13/20255100%60%0%91.20
2025 NAFTA at Maryland09/27/2025520%20%80%27.00
2025 NAFTA at Harvard10/04/2025367%0%33%124.50
2025 NAFTA at Oxford10/11/20254100%25%0%119.25
2025 NAFTA at Chicago11/08/20256100%0%17%129.50
2025 NAFTA at Columbia11/08/2025580%0%20%141.25
2025 NAFTA at Richmond12/20/2025250%0%50%142.00