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## TOSSUPS
1.
ID: 128274 | Difficulty: Regular College | Category: Literature | Subcategory:
Literature American
Tournament: 2017 EMT | Round: 3 | Number: 16
TOSSUP: At this play's end, a mentally impaired war veteran unsuccessfully tries to
use a broken trumpet to open up heaven, after which he dances and cries out. This
play's protagonist talks about having had a fight with Death while talking to his
friend Bono on payday in his front yard, the same location where the rest of this
play is set. Alberta dies in childbirth in this play, leading the child's father to
ask if his daughter Raynell can be raised by his wife (*) Rose. This play's
protagonist refuses to let his son Cory apply for a football scholarship because of
the racism he was subject to as a player in the Negro Leagues, and becomes the
first black garbage truck driver in town. For 10 points, name this play about Troy
Maxson, the sixth play in August Wilson's Pittsburgh Cycle.
ANSWER: Fences
2.
Literature American
Tournament: 2017 MASSOLIT | Round: 5 | Number: 8
TOSSUP: One character in this play claims to have wrestled with Death for three
days andnights and uses an excuse of renting furniture from the Devil to avoid
lending his sonten dollars. The protagonist of this play repeatedly sings about a
dog Blue who "treeda possum in a hollow log". This play ends with one character
failing to (+) blow hishorn three times. The protagonist's mistress Alberta dies
giving birth to Raynell. The protagonist is promoted to (*) driver from his
position as garbage man, and he prohibits his son Cory from playing football. For
ten points, identify this play in which the former baseball player Troy Maxson
builds the title object, written by August Wilson.
ANSWER: Fences
3.
ID: 141086 | Difficulty: Regular College | Category: History | Subcategory:
History World
Tournament: 2017 NASAT | Round: 4 | Number: 16
TOSSUP: During the 2013 holidays, one of these structures was partly replicated at
London's St. James Church in a campaign promoted by a quote of then-recently
deceased Nelson Mandela. The documentary 5 Broken Cameras follows the making of one
of them in the city of Bil'in (beel EEN). The company Magal (mah-GAHL), which began
by building one of these structures, experienced a 6-percent rise in its stock
after the 2016 presidential election. In March 2017, Banksy opened a hotel with
views of one of these structures. They controversially deviate from the course of
the Green Line, were claimed to be 99.9-percent effective by Donald Trump, and were
first built after the Second Intifada. For 10 points, identify these structures
that keep many Muslims from entering a Jewish state.
ANSWER: barriers on the Israeli border [accept walls, fences, or equivalents in
place of "barriers"; accept Palestine, West Bank, or Gaza Strip in place of
"Israel"; prompt on partial answer] <Shimizu>
4.
ID: 136471 | Difficulty: Hard College | Category: History | Subcategory: History
American
Tournament: 2015 SHEIKH | Round: 6 | Number: 7
TOSSUP: The opposition to this product by "nesters" prompted gangs like the Blue
Devils to begin destroying it, leading Governor John Ireland to call a special
legislative session. This product was sold by the Washburn- Moen Company and by a
salesman nicknamed "Bet-a-million" who organized unlicensed "moonshiner" producers
of this product, John Warne Gates. During a harsh winter, this product was
responsible for the deaths of thousands of animals in an event called the Big Die-
Up. William Edenborn designed a (*) humane form of this product, whose introduction
cut down on the cultivation of Osage Orange. This product was invented by a farmer
from Illinois named Samuel Glidden, and it effectively ended the open range era by
restricting the movement of cattle drives. For 10 points, name this steel material
used for fencing today and in the Old West.
ANSWER: barbed wire [or barb wire; or barbed fence; or bob wire; prompt on fences
or wires or similar answers]
5.
ID: 140535 | Difficulty: Open | Category: Science | Subcategory: Science Other
Tournament: 2015 We Have Never Been Modern | Round: 2 | Number: 11
TOSSUP: This stuff was deliberately destroyed by groups known as The Owls and Blue
Devils. A mass-produced sculpture by E. M. Viquesney sometimes known as "Iron
Mike" shows the title figure walking over a tree stump that is surrounded with this
substance. This invention was repurposed to create squirrel lines, a type of ad-
hoc telephone network. Joseph (*) Glidden popularized this invention, which
largely replaced the use of osage orange hedges and was necessary due to the lack
of available stone and lumber. This invention is celebrated at Texas' Devil's Rope
Museum. The use of this invention sparked the "range wars", where cattle-herders
cut-up this stuff which had been erected by farmers. Nests of this stuff were
placed in no-man's land in World War I. For 10 points, name this invention that
allowed for cheap fences in the Great Plains.
ANSWER: barbed wire fences [or razor wire or bobbed wire; accept devil's rope
before mentioned] Â
6.
ID: 89009 | Difficulty: National High School | Category: Literature | Subcategory:
None
Tournament: 2013 PACE NSC | Round: 1.pdf | Number: 7
TOSSUP: One character in this play recounts his time living on Logan Street and
discusses the merits ofshopping at Bella's versus the A&P. Another character in
this play believes himself to be hisnamesake archangel and plays his trumpet for
his dead brother in the final scene. Alberta dies givingbirth to its protagonist's
love child (*) Raynell, who is subsequently raised by the main character's
wife,Rose. This play centers on a man who prohibits his son Cory from accepting a
football scholarship becauseof his own inability to play professional baseball due
to the color of his skin. For 10 points, name thisplay about the sanitation worker
Troy Maxson, a work in the Pittsburgh Cycle by August Wilson.
ANSWER: Fences
7.
Literature American
Tournament: 2011 MAGNI | Round: 5 | Number: 20
TOSSUP: One character in this play shops at Bella's out of loyalty, even though her
prices are higher. That character's son works at the A&P. One major character
in this play claims that the devil sold him furniture without credit on interest
and sings about a dog he had named Blue. Lyons comes to borrow money from this
play's protagonist, who is warned by his best friend Bono about the possible
consequences of his affair with Alberta. One character in this play is a former war
veteran who thinks he's his namesake archangel Gabriel. The protagonist ruins
Cory's chances for a football scholarship and asks his wife, Rose, to take care of
Raynell, describing his affair as "trying to steal second". For 10 points, name
this play about former baseball player Troy Maxson, the 1950's entry in the
Pittsburgh Cycle by August Wilson.
ANSWER: Fences
8.
ID: 66611 | Difficulty: Easy College | Category: Literature | Subcategory: None
Tournament: 2010 ACF Fall | Round: Bellarmine and UCLA.doc | Number: 15
TOSSUP: One character in this play lives with Miss Pearl and has to be bailed out
of jail for disturbing the peace. Another character in this work is the seven year-
old girl Raynell, and another character in this play has a metal plate in his head
and believes he is the Archangel Gabriel. The protagonist of this work has an
affair with Alberta who dies in childbirth, and his friend Bono listens to his
complaints while both work as garbage men. The protagonist of this play won't let
his son Cory accept a football scholarship due to his own failed aspirations of
playing baseball. For 10 points, name this drama about the family of Troy Maxon, a
play by August Wilson.
ANSWER: Fences
9.
ID: 71837 | Difficulty: Regular College | Category: Literature | Subcategory: None
Tournament: 2010 NASAT | Round: 4.pdf | Number: 22
TOSSUP: One character in this play tells a story about paying ten dollars a month
for fifteen years to buy furniture on credit from the devil. In the final scene of
this play, two children pay tribute to their dead father by singing about a dog
named Blue. The main character of this play warns his son by saying "strike one,"
"strike two," and "Don't you strike out" before that son attempts to assault him
with a baseball bat. At the climax of this play, the protagonist's wife decides to
raise Raynell after learning that her husband cheated on her with Alberta. The
protagonist refuses to allow his son Cory to play college football, and creates
this play's title structures for his wife Rose. For 10 points, name this play set
in the 1950s, which focuses on Pittsburgh garbageman Troy Maxson and was written by
August Wilson.
ANSWER: Fences
10.
ID: 73054 | Difficulty: Regular College | Category: Literature | Subcategory: None
Tournament: 2010 Penn Bowl | Round: VCU.doc | Number: 20
TOSSUP: One character in this play admonishes his seven year old daughter for going
out in the middle of the night to see if her garden grew.
ANSWER: Fences
## BONUSES
1.
ID: 40687 | Difficulty: Hard College | Category: History | Subcategory: History
European
Tournament: 2019 PIANO | Round: 6 | Number: 1
BONUS: These structures were built by the dozen in the Loire valley under Fulk the
Black of Anjou. For 10 points each:
[10] Baileys were often surrounded by this kind of wall, which is made from stakes
or tree trunks stuck in the ground.
ANSWER: palisades [or paling; prompt on fences] <JR>
[10] Name these defensive fortifications which often housed fortified towers called
donjons or “keeps.”
ANSWER: castles
[10] Medieval castles often used this pair of fortifications, which consisted of a
raised mound of earth with a keep on top, and a fortified courtyard surrounded by a
ditch. Name both parts.
ANSWER: motte AND bailey
2.
ID: 41473 | Difficulty: Regular High School | Category: Literature | Subcategory:
Literature American
Tournament: 2019 Richard Montgomery Blair Academic Tournament | Round: Packet 5 |
Number: 14
BONUS: Gabriel repeatedly calls Bono “the King of the Jungle!” during this play.
For 10 points each:
[10] Name this play in which former baseball player Troy Maxson is reluctant to let
his son, Cory, accept a football scholarship.
ANSWER: Fences
[10] Fences is part of the “Pittsburgh Cycle,” a collection of plays by this
American author of The Piano Lesson.
ANSWER: August Wilson
[10] This first installment in the “Pittsburgh Cycle” recounts Citizen Barlow’s
spiritual journey to the City of Bones with the help of Aunt Ester. In this play, a
policeman named Caesar shoots a former slave named Solly Two Kings.
ANSWER: Gem of the Ocean <Drama, AK><ed. OC>
3.
ID: 36840 | Difficulty: Open | Category: Trash | Subcategory: None
Tournament: 2018 Chicago Open Trash | Round: 11 | Number: 2
BONUS: <strong>2.</strong> Fyvush Finkel won an Emmy for Supporting Actor in a
Drama Series for his role as the lawyer Douglas Wambaugh on this TV show. For 10
points each:
[10] Jimmy Brock was played by this actor, who had earlier appeared on six episodes
of Cheers as Evan Drake, Rebecca Howe’s boss during the show’s sixth season.
ANSWER: Tom Skerritt [or Thomas Roy Skerritt]
[10] Name this TV show that focused on the residents of Rome, Wisconsin, including
the town’s sheriff, Jimmy Brock.
ANSWER: Picket Fences
[10] Characters with this position in Rome often meet terrible fates, including
spontaneous combustion and decapitation. On a short-lived ABC sitcom, Brandon
Michael Hall played Courtney Rose, a rapper who accidentally wins this role when he
becomes a candidate just so he can advertise his music.
ANSWER: mayors [or The Mayor] <Gehring>
4.
ID: 28536 | Difficulty: Regular High School | Category: Literature | Subcategory:
Literature American
Tournament: 2017 WHAQ II | Round: 3 | Number: 4
BONUS: Roy Hobbs, a player of this sport, attempts to revive his career after being
shot by Harriet Bird in Bernard Malamud’s <em>The Natural</em>. For 10 points each.
[10] In this play by August Wilson, Troy Maxson describes his affair with Alberta
as “trying to steal second.”
ANSWER: Fences
[10] Name this sport. In Ernest Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea, Santiago
describes the feats of “the great DiMaggio,” another player of this sport.
ANSWER: baseball [or a baseball player]
[10] Perhaps the most famous ballplayer in American literature is this title
character of an Ernest Thayer poem. This man strikes out in the last inning to lose
a game for the Mudville Nine.
ANSWER: Casey [or “Casey at the Bat”] <Tyler Benedict>/<ed. ME>/<ed.
JO>
5.
Literature American
Tournament: 2016 PACE NSC | Round: Finals 1 | Number: 10
BONUS: Doaker tells a story about this object in which a mob sets the train Yellow
Dog on fire after it was stolen. For 10 points each:
[10] Troy Maxson, a former baseball player, works as a trash collector in this
other play by August Wilson, which partly centers on Troy's son Cory winning a
college football scholarship.
ANSWER: Fences <Jose>
[10] Name this object into which Willie Boy carves images of his family. Berniece
uses this thing to remove the spirits haunting her home at the conclusion of the
play about it.
ANSWER: the piano from The Piano Lesson
[10] The history of the piano figures heavily into this author's play The Piano
Lesson; other plays from his Pittsburgh Cycle include Radio Golf.
ANSWER: August Wilson [or Frederick August Kittel Jr.]
6.
ID: 25424 | Difficulty: Easy College | Category: Literature | Subcategory:
Literature American
Tournament: 2015 ACF Fall | Round: Michigan A, Michigan State A, MIT B, and UVA B |
Number: 8
BONUS: The protagonist of this play was a promising baseball player but couldn’t
play in the big leagues due to his race. For 10 points each:
[10] This African-American playwright included Fences, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom and
The Piano Lesson in his Pittsburgh Cycle.
[10] Name this play in which a garbage collector, Troy Maxson, struggles with
raising his son Cory.
ANSWER: Fences
[10] In Fences, Troy’s mentally disabled brother Gabriel always carries around one
of these instruments. Gabriel tries to play it during Troy’s funeral but no sound
comes out.
ANSWER: a trumpet
7.
ID: 17279 | Difficulty: Hard High School | Category: Literature | Subcategory:
Literature American
Tournament: 2015 BHSAT | Round: Round 4 | Number: 8
BONUS: One character from this play thinks that he's the Archangel Gabriel after
receiving a head injury in World War II. For 10 points each:
[10] Fences is part of August Wilson's ten-play Pittsburgh Cycle, which is set in
this state.
ANSWER: Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
[10] In Fences, Troy quit this profession because he could not make good money as
an African-American. Troy later assaults his son with an object used in this
profession.
ANSWER: baseball player [accept baseball bat; accept answers involving the Negro
Leagues; prompt on anything that mentions being an "athlete" or similar]
[10] Name this play in which Troy, a garbage truck driver, kicks his son Cory out
of the house. It was written by August Wilson.
ANSWER: Fences
8.
Literature American
Tournament: 2015 HFT X | Round: 12 | Number: 8
BONUS: The Virginia Theater was renamed for this man two weeks after his death in
2005. For 10 points each:
[10] A frequently recurring character in the Pittsburgh Cycle is this matron,
claimed in Gem of the Ocean to be 285 years old. This character dies in King Hedley
II at the ripe young age of 366.
ANSWER: Aunt Esther Tyler
[10] Name this playwright whose 10-play Pittsburgh Cycle includes plays like Ma
Rainey’s Black Bottom and Joe Turner’s Come and Gone.
[10] The most famous member of the Pittsburgh Cycle is this one, centering on the
truck driver Troy and his desire to build the title dividing structures around his
house. Troy gives an allegorical monologue about the title structures keeping the
Grim Reaper away.
ANSWER: Fences
9.
Literature American
Tournament: 2015 Maryland Fall | Round: 11 | Number: 17
BONUS: After the title structure of this play is built, Bono buys a refrigerator
for his wife. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this play in which Troy, a driver of a garbage truck, reminisces about
his days as a baseball player and has an affair with Alberta, who dies while giving
birth to Raynell.
ANSWER: Fences
[10] In this fourth play of The Pittsburgh Cycle, Boy Willie and Berniece argue
over the fate of the title family heirloom, which survives from the time when their
ancestors were slaves at a sharecropping plantation.
ANSWER: The Piano Lesson <AP Literature>
[10] Fences is the sixth installment of this African-American playwright’s magnum
opus The Pittsburgh Cycle.
10.
ID: 27010 | Difficulty: Open | Category: Literature | Subcategory: Literature
American
Tournament: 2015 Missouri Open | Round: Finals2 | Number: 3
BONUS: Answer the following about “The Pittsburgh Cycle,” for 10 points each:
[10] This African-American playwright included Seven Guitars and Fences, along with
The Piano Lesson, in his “Pittsburgh Cycle.”
[10] This fifth installment of the “Pittsburgh Cycle” set during the 1940s opens
with Floyd Barton’s release from prison.
ANSWER: Seven Guitars
[10] Seven Guitars is chronologically followed by this play that centers on
garbageman Troy Maxson and his son Cory.
ANSWER: Fences
11.
Literature American
Tournament: 2015 STIMPY | Round: WUSTL A - Ottawa | Number: 20
BONUS: In this play, Risa, a follower of Prophet Samuel, slashes her legs with a
razor to avoid being treated as a sex object. For 10 points each:
[10] Two Trains Running and Fences are part of this African-American playwright's
ten-part Pittsburgh cycle.
ANSWER: August Wilson [or Frederick August Kittel, Jr.]
[10] In this play by the author of Two Trains Running, Alberta dies giving birth to
Raynell, the daughter of former baseball player Troy Maxson. It ends with Troy's
brother, Gabriel, blowing a stopped trumpet to send Troy to heaven.
ANSWER: Fences
[10] Name this play that ends with Sterling smashing a butcher's window to steal
ham for his deceased friend, Hambone. Sterling, Wolf, and Holloway are among the
patrons of Memphis Lee's diner in this play.
ANSWER: Two Trains Running
12.
ID: 16946 | Difficulty: Open | Category: Literature | Subcategory: Literature
American
Tournament: 2015 VCU Open | Round: 12 | Number: 9
BONUS: This character claims he survived pneumonia in the summer of 1941 by
wrestling Death for three days and three nights.
[10] Name this character whose motto "You got to take the crookeds with the
straights" is repeated by his son Lyons.
ANSWER: Troy Maxson
[10] Former baseball player Troy Maxson is the protagonist of this August Wilson
play.
ANSWER: Fences
[10] August Wilson liked to claim that his influences were Amiri Baraka, Jorge
Luis Borges, Romare Bearden, and this musical style practiced by the characters of
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom.
ANSWER: the Blues
13.
ID: 12622 | Difficulty: Regular College | Category: History | Subcategory: History
European
Tournament: 2014 NASAT | Round: 16 | Number: 10
BONUS: Answer these questions about the military tactics at the 1415 Battle of
Agincourt, for 10 points each.
[10] This segment of the English operation was attacked in the only successful
French assault of the battle, commanded by Ysembart d'Azincourt. Upon hearing that
this area had been attacked, Henry V executed the French prisoners in his care.
ANSWER: the English baggage train [or the English supply caravan; accept any answer
indicating the part of the English encampment where supplies are stored; prompt on
"camp"]
[10] The English set up these devices at an angle to ward off charges from French
cavalry.
ANSWER: pointed wooden stakes [or palings; or fences; do not accept or prompt on
"spears," "lances," or any type of polearm weapon]
[10] At Agincourt, the superior range of this English weapon helped Henry V's
troops defeat Charles d'Albret. It was usually slightly taller than a grown man.
ANSWER: longbows [prompt on "bow", etc.]
14.
Literature American
Tournament: 2014 PACE NSC | Round: 20 | Number: 7
BONUS: This character's mother Alberta, who never appears onstage, dies in
childbirth. For 10 points each:
[10] This African-American playwright included Fences alongside Radio Golf and The
Piano Lesson in his ten-part Pittsburgh Cycle.
[10] Raynell is the illegitimate daughter of Troy Maxson, who refuses to allow his
son Cory to pursue a football scholarship in this 1983 play.
ANSWER: Fences
[10] Name this baby, the daughter of a washed-up baseball player who didn't manage
to break the color line in the majors. She is raised by that man's wife Rose.
ANSWER: Raynell Maxson [prompt on "Maxson"]
15.
ID: 32 | Difficulty: Easy College | Category: Literature | Subcategory: Literature
American
Tournament: 2013 ACF Fall | Round: Haverford | Number: 3
BONUS: This play's central character looks down on the jazz career of his son
Lyons. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this play in which Troy Maxson tells his son Cory not to accept a
football scholarship because of his own exclusion from playing professional
baseball.
ANSWER: Fences
[10] Harmond Wilkes turns against his business partners, who want to redevelop the
Hill District, in a Wilson play about this kind of golf. In a Cheever story, Irene
listens in on her neighbors using an enormous one of these.
ANSWER: radios
[10] Fences is one segment of this man's Pittsburgh Cycle. This playwright of The
Piano Lesson wrote a play in which Ma Rainey tries to record an album along with
Cutler, Toledo, Slow Drag, and Levee.
16.
Literature American
Tournament: 2013 ACF Regionals | Round: LASA A + UVA B | Number: 15
BONUS: In this poem "one luminary clock against the sky / Proclaimed the time was
neither wrong nor right." For 10 points each:
[10] Name this poem in terza rima whose speaker has "outwalked the furthest city
light" and "looked down the saddest city lane".
ANSWER: "Acquainted with the Night"
[10] "Mending Wall" ends with this five-word saying, which the speaker notes is
originally supposed to apply when there are cows.
ANSWER: "Good fences make good neighbors"
[10] "Acquainted with the Night" is by this American poet of "Mending Wall" and a
poem in which the speaker has "miles to go before" he sleeps, "Stopping by Woods on
a Snowy Evening".
ANSWER: Robert (Lee) Frost
17.
Literature American
Tournament: 2013 Penn Bowl | Round: 2 | Number: 3
BONUS: This character promises to buy a TV to watch the World Series if his son can
supply $100, half the cost of the TV.
[10] Troy Maxson is the main character of this play. This play ends with Jim Bono
buying a refrigerator to uphold a promise he made that he would buy one when the
title structure is completed.
ANSWER: Fences
[10] Fences is part of this American Author's "Pittsburgh Cycle" which also
includes The Piano Lesson.
[10] Name this man who steals money from his brother, Gabriel, and has an affair
with the unseen Alberta, who dies in childbirth; this character's wife adopts the
baby who later plants seeds in the family's yard.
ANSWER: Troy Maxson [prompt on "Maxson"]
18.
ID: 8478 | Difficulty: Hard College | Category: Literature | Subcategory:
Literature American
Tournament: 2013 VCU Closed | Round: Chicago B + Yale B | Number: 9
BONUS: Mr. Rand allows a character in this play to drive garbage trucks. For 10
points each:
[10] This American playwright wrote about Troy Maxson in Fences, and depicted the
conflict between Boy Willie and Berniece in The Piano Lesson.
[10] Fences ends with this character playing a musical instrument after escaping
from the insane asylum. He received a head injury in World War II and has a metal
plate in his head.
ANSWER: Gabriel Maxson [prompt on Maxson]
[10] Name this play, in which Alberta dies after giving birth and Rose adopts the
baby, Raynell. Its main conflict concerns Cory's desire to play football and quit
his job at the supermarket.
ANSWER: Fences
19.
Literature American
Tournament: 2012 PACE NSC | Round: 3 | Number: 21
BONUS: Economics major Art Beckstein develops an attraction for Cleveland Arning
and Arthur Lecomte in a Michael Chabon novel titled for the Mysteries of this city.
For 10 points each:
[10] This word titles a play from August Wilson's Pittsburgh Cycle in which
garbageman Troy Maxson has an affair with Alberta and prevents his son Cory from
getting a football scholarship. According to Robert Frost's "Mending Wall", these
things make for good neighbors.
ANSWER: fences
[10] Identify this city, also the setting of plays like Joe Turner's Come and Gone
and The Piano Lesson.
ANSWER: pittsburgh
[10] In this other August Wilson play, a frustrated trumpeter named Levee stabs
Toledo after Toledo steps on his new shoes. The title musician is joined by
bandmates like Slow Drag and Cutler.
ANSWER: ma rainey's black bottom

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