Round 8: Tossup 1

In a play set in this city, a man ends his attempt to challenge a lieutenant to a duel when he recognizes a signed copy of a play as his wife’s. In this city, a man holds a teacup so hard that it shatters after discoursing on a game of cat’s cradle. Turn-of-the-century plays set in this city were adapted as Dalliance and Undiscovered Country. At a family dinner in this city, a future war amputee puts a Star of David on a Christmas tree. (-5[1])In the last scene (10[1]-5[1])of a play set in this city, a mathematician, a New (10[1])York psychoanalyst, (-5[1])and an Anglicized (10[1])writer meet at a flat where a portrait of their great aunt (10[1])Gretl was stolen (10[1])17 years prior. (-5[1])The Merz and (10[1])Jakobovicz (-5[1])families are sent (-5[1])to the title Jewish quarter (-5[2])of this city in the last play by Tom Stoppard. For (-5[1])10 points, (-5[1])what home city of Arthur (-5[3])Schnitzler (10[1])is the setting of Leopoldstadt? (10[2])■END■ (10[8]0[3])

ANSWER: Vienna [or Wien] (Tom Stoppard adapted Arthur Schnitzler’s Liebelei and Das weite Land and included Reigen as a plot device in Leopoldstadt.)
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