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In a play, a character in one of these locations is struck in the head with a baseball bat, landing two men in prison. In a play primarily set in one of these locations, a lockout at Olstead’s factory divides Cynthia and Tracey. In a play, two characters who fought on opposite sides (20[1])of the Boer War (20[7])discuss (20[2])leaving (20[5])one (20[2])of (20[1])these (20[1])locations (20[4])to return to their (20[1])home countries. One of these locations is the setting of a play in which a character begs for the (*) electric chair after he confesses to having murdered (10[1])his wife Evelyn. A group of misfits gather in one of these locations (10[1])to cling onto their “pipe dreams.” For 10 points, (10[2])Harry Hope owns what type (10[1])of location (10[1])in Eugene O’Neill’s (10[1])The Iceman Cometh? (10[1])■END■ (10[2])

ANSWER: bars [or saloons; or synonyms like clubs or taverns] (The first two sentences refer to Lynn Nottage’s play Sweat.)
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TournamentEditionExact Match?TUHConv. %Power %Neg %Average Buzz
2024 PACE NSC06/08/2024Y34100%71%0%75.97