Packet 5: Bonus 6
Answer the following about some of Stephen Sondheim’s most praised rhymes, for 10 points each.
[10e] Mrs. Lovett jokes about selling “shepherd’s pie peppered / with actual shepherd / on top” in this musical titled for a murderous barber.
ANSWER: Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
[10m] Madam Armfeldt, who rhymes “raisins” and “liaisons,” has her last name rhymed with “charm felt” in this Sondheim musical based on Ingmar Bergman’s Smiles of a Summer Night.
ANSWER: A Little Night Music
[10h] Sondheim’s New Yorker and New York Times obituaries cited this rhyme from the song “You Could Drive a Person Crazy,” in which an adjective describing “a person’s personality” is rhymed with a three-word phrase describing a hard action. Name both.
ANSWER: when a person’s personality is personable AND it’s harder than a matador coercin’ a bull
<Editors, Other Fine Arts> | N. Playoffs 5 (Editors 5)
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 | 14.35 | 100% | 39% | 4% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cambridge | Illinois A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Chicago A | Indiana | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| Chicago B | Maryland B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Columbia B | Georgia Tech A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Georgia Tech B | Bruin | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Harvard | UC Berkeley B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Illinois B | Cornell | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| Maryland A | Northwestern A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Michigan | NYU B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| Minnesota | Toronto B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| North Carolina | Brown | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| Ohio State | Stanford B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| Penn State | Rutgers | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| Stanford A | Toronto A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Swarthmore | Northwestern B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| UC Berkeley A | NYU A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| UCF | Purdue | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| UCLA | British Columbia | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Vanderbilt | Texas | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Virginia | Johns Hopkins | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | EMH |
| Virginia Tech | Columbia A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| WashU | MIT | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Waterloo | Georgetown | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Main Site | 2026-04-17 | ✓ | 23 | 14.35 | 100% | 39% | 4% |