Question
Answer the following about Pulitzer Prize for Drama controversies, for 10 points each.
[10e] The Pulitzer board refused to give the 1963 prize to this Edward Albee play about George and Martha’s party due to its explicit nature.
ANSWER: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
[10m] The New York Drama Critics’ Circle created its own award after a Pulitzer went to Zoe Akins’s adaptation of The Old Maid, a novella by this author who depicted Newland Archer going to the theater in another novel.
ANSWER: Edith Wharton [or Edith Newbold Jones] (Newland Archer appears in The Age of Innocence.)
[10h] The Pulitzer board encouraged one jury to give the prize to Cat on a Hot Tin Roof rather than their first choice, this author’s The Flowering Peach. Joe Bonaparte chooses boxing over the violin in this author’s play Golden Boy.
ANSWER: Clifford Odets
<Joseph Krol, Literature - American - Drama> ~23358~ <Editor: Chandler West>
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Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Exact Match? | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 PACE NSC | 06/08/2024 | Y | 36 | 19.44 | 97% | 69% | 28% |