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Packet 7: Bonus 10

In the opening of a play, Harry Fatt and Joe argue over the reason for this character’s sudden disappearance. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this character. Agate leads a group of taxi drivers to chant the word “strike!” after this character is found dead with a bullet in his head at the end of a Clifford Odets play.
ANSWER: Lefty Costello [accept either underlined portion; accept Waiting for Lefty]
[10e] The taxi drivers strike in Waiting for Lefty occurs during this economic downturn in 1930s America, which also provides the setting of John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath.
ANSWER: the Great Depression
[10m] This author wrote about a company of unlicensed cab drivers run by Jim Becker in his play Jitney. In another play by this author, Gabriel escapes a mental asylum and tries to blow a trumpet during his father’s funeral.
ANSWER: August Wilson [or Frederick August Kittel Jr.]
<Literature - American, Daniel Merida> | VAULT II Packet 07

HeardPPBE %M %H %
2118.57100%48%38%

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Conversion

TeamOpponentPart 1Part 2Part 3TotalParts
Cary AcademyGrimsley010010E
Chapel Hill AEast Chapel Hill10101030HEM
Tantaene Animis Caelestibus IraeChapel Hill B010010E

Summary

TournamentEditionMatchHeardPPBE %M %H %
VAULT II at Georgia Tech2026-01-24✓625.00100%83%67%
Triangle Cup2026-03-13✓316.67100%33%33%
VAULT II at Eden Prairie HS2026-03-13✓316.67100%33%33%
VAULT II at McGill2026-03-13✓410.00100%0%0%
VAULT II at UCSB2026-03-13✓520.00100%60%40%
VAULT II Northern UK2026-04-24✕310.00100%0%0%
VAULT II Southern UK2026-04-24✕410.00100%0%0%
VAULT II at Harvard2026-04-30✕320.00100%67%33%
VAULT II at MINT2026-06-19✕520.00100%80%20%
VAULT II Stanford Online2026-07-17✕828.75100%100%88%