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Packet 1: Bonus 13

A dustman from this family is indignant when a letter calling him “the most original moralist at present in England” lands him a position lecturing for a reform league. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this family, whose freeloading patriarch claims to be a member of the “undeserving poor” and takes a five-pound bribe to leave his daughter alone.
ANSWER: Doolittle [accept Alfred Doolittle] (from Pygmalion)
[10e] In another Shaw play, the arms and whiskey magnate Andrew Undershaft makes a donation to the Salvation Army, prompting this character, his daughter, to resign her position as a “major.”
ANSWER: Barbara Undershaft [accept Major Barbara]
[10h] David Lean cast Charles Laughton (“LAW-tun”) as this play’s title drunken bootmaker, whose daughter marries his best employee and outcompetes him in sales. This Harold Brighouse play is titled for an idiom that puns on the name of its protagonist.
ANSWER: Hobson’s Choice
<Editors, British Literature> | J. Playoffs 1 (Editors 1)

HeardPPBE %M %H %
2415.83100%54%4%

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TeamOpponentPart 1Part 2Part 3TotalParts
British ColumbiaGeorgia Tech C010010E
BrownCornell010010E
CambridgeMinnesota1010020ME
Chicago AUC Berkeley B010010E
Columbia BPenn State1010020ME
GeorgetownNorthwestern B010010E
Georgia Tech AStanford B1010020ME
Georgia Tech BVirginia1010020ME
Illinois APittsburgh010010E
Illinois BUCF1010020ME
IndianaVirginia Tech10101030MEH
MITUCLA1010020ME
MichiganRutgers1010020ME
NYU AMaryland A1010020ME
NYU BJohns Hopkins010010E
North CarolinaMaryland B1010020ME
Northwestern AColumbia A1010020ME
Ohio StateBruin1010020ME
PurdueWaterloo010010E
Stanford AHarvard010010E
SwarthmoreChicago B1010020ME
TexasToronto B010010E
Toronto AUC Berkeley A010010E
VanderbiltWashU010010E

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TournamentEditionMatchHeardPPBE %M %H %
Main Site2026-04-17✓2415.83100%54%4%