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In this play, a so-called “colonel” claims that “if the Lord wishes a sponge to think, it thinks.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this play in which a Nebraskan orator goes on the witness stand, fails to explain the length of the first day after creation, and is ridiculed for claiming to speak directly to God.
ANSWER: Inherit the Wind (by Lawrence and Lee)
[10h] In another play that discusses evolution, a man upsets these characters by stating that tools, art, and morality “separate us from the brute beast.” You may describe these characters, who flee when they hear a nearby plane.
ANSWER: Leslie and Sarah [accept the lizards from Seascape; accept the reptiles from Seascape; prompt on lizards or reptiles by asking “from what play?”] (Seascape is by Edward Albee.)
[10e] George Antrobus invents the wheel during the Ice Age in this author’s play The Skin of Our Teeth, which places prehistory in suburban New Jersey. In a play by this author, the Stage Manager introduces Grover’s Corners.
ANSWER: Thornton Wilder (The play is Our Town.)
<Columbia B, American Literature> | H. Prelims 8 - Stanford A + Georgia Tech C + Columbia A + Columbia B

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TeamOpponentPart 1Part 2Part 3TotalParts
BrownUC Berkeley B001010E
CambridgeBritish Columbia001010E
GeorgetownSwarthmore10101030MHE
Georgia Tech BToronto A1001020ME
Illinois AStanford B10101030MHE
Illinois BChicago B10101030MHE
IndianaWaterloo1001020ME
MITPittsburgh1001020ME
MichiganBruin1001020ME
MinnesotaPurdue10101030MHE
NYU BMaryland A1001020ME
North CarolinaRutgers10101030MHE
Ohio StateHarvard10101030MHE
TexasGeorgia Tech A1001020ME
Toronto BNorthwestern A10101030MHE
UC Berkeley AVirginia10101030MHE
UCLAMaryland B10101030MHE
VanderbiltNorthwestern B1001020ME
Virginia TechPenn State1001020ME
WashUChicago A1001020ME

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TournamentEditionMatchHeardPPBE %M %H %
Main Site2026-04-17✓2023.50100%90%45%