the sign in Sidney Brustein’s window - 2024 ACF Nationals

Question

David Ragin is told to “believe in independent men” like Huckleberry Finn after asking this object’s owner what he has against the “machine” this week. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this object that titles a 1964 play. This object, which bears the slogans, “Clean Up Community Politics” and “Wipe Out Bossism,” hangs outside a Greenwich Village apartment.

ANSWER: the sign in Sidney Brustein’s window [or the sign in Sidney Brustein’s window; prompt on sign]

[10e] The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window is by this author, whose husband Robert Nemiroff adapted her personal writings into the play To Be Young, Gifted and Black.

ANSWER: Lorraine Hansberry [or Lorraine Vivian Hansberry]

[10h] Sidney’s wife Iris has this maiden name, which her sister Mavis points out is associated with the ancient Greek chorus. This word referred to both a side entrance for the chorus and the chorus’s first ode.

ANSWER: parodus [or parodos]

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Data

Team	Opponent	Part 1	Part 2	Total
Arizona State	Duke	0	10	10
Berkeley B	Harvard	10	10	20
Brown	Iowa State	0	10	10
Chicago C	Kentucky	0	10	10
Claremont Colleges	Columbia B	0	10	10
Columbia A	Cornell A	10	10	20
Cornell B	Truman State	10	10	20
Georgia Tech	NYU	0	10	10
Illinois	Berkeley A	10	10	20
Johns Hopkins	Toronto A	10	10	20
Maryland	Yale A	10	10	20
Minnesota A	North Carolina A	10	10	20
North Carolina B	McGill	10	10	20
Northwestern	Michigan	0	10	10
Ottawa	Florida	0	10	10
Penn	Toronto B	10	10	20
Purdue	Chicago A	0	10	10
Rutgers	Virginia	0	0	0
Texas	Chicago B	10	10	20
Vanderbilt	Chicago D	0	10	10
WUSTL A	Indiana	10	10	20
Waterloo	Stanford	0	10	10

Summary

Tournament	Edition	Exact Match?	Heard	PPB	Easy %	Medium %	Hard %
2024 ACF Nationals	04/21/2024	Y	22	14.55	96%	50%	0%