Packet 5: Bonus 4
A dramatist who wrote in this language theorized a “theater of politicization” that he implemented in the plays The Rape and Rituals of Signs and Transformations. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this language used to retell the story of the Seven Sleepers of Ephesus in the play People of the Cave. A 1934 play that draws on earlier tales in this language is titled for the storyteller Scheherazade.
ANSWER: Arabic [or al-‘arabiyyah] (The two playwrights are Saadallah Wannous and Tawfiq al-Hakim.)
[10h] While Shahrazad author Tawfiq al-Hakim is recognized as the father of modern Arabic drama, this earlier Egyptian author nicknamed “the prince of poets” began writing verse dramas like The Death of Cleopatra a decade earlier, in the 1920s.
ANSWER: Ahmed Shawqi
[10m] Two answers required. Another of Shawqi’s verse dramas centered on these two characters, one of whom dies at the other’s grave after going mad from lovesickness in a Persian poem by Nizami.
ANSWER: Layla AND Majnun [accept Layla bint Mahdi or Layla al-Aamiriya in place of “Layla”; accept Qays ibn al-Mulawwah in place of “Majnun”]
<Indiana, World Literature> | E. Prelims 5 - Indiana + Vanderbilt + MIT
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | 17.14 | 95% | 76% | 0% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| British Columbia | Rutgers | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Chicago A | Georgetown | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Columbia B | Pittsburgh | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Cornell | NYU B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Illinois A | NYU A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Maryland A | Waterloo | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Maryland B | Georgia Tech B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Michigan | Illinois B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| North Carolina | Cambridge | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | M |
| Northwestern A | Bruin | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Ohio State | Georgia Tech A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Penn State | Purdue | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Stanford A | Chicago B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Stanford B | Brown | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Texas | Harvard | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Toronto A | Minnesota | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Toronto B | Georgia Tech C | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| UC Berkeley A | UCF | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| UC Berkeley B | Johns Hopkins | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Virginia | Columbia A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Virginia Tech | UCLA | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | EM |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Main Site | 2026-04-17 | ✓ | 21 | 17.14 | 95% | 76% | 0% |