Question
In a play, one of this company’s founders collapses and dies after dancing the Twist to Sonny & Cher’s “The Beat Goes On.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this company that is tracked from its founding by immigrants to its fall in a Tony Award-winning play by Stefano Massini.
ANSWER: Lehman Brothers [or Lehman Bros.; or Lehman Brothers Inc.; accept The Lehman Trilogy]
[10e] Immigrants arrive in Ellis Island and work under harsh conditions in Amerike the Golden Land, a play in this language. The New York theater Folksbiene produced an appropriate adaptation of Fiddler on the Roof in this language.
ANSWER: Yiddish
[10m] This author’s plays concerning immigration and politics include On the Royal Road: The Burgher King, a reflection on Donald Trump narrated by a blind and bleeding Miss Piggy. This author wrote a novel about Erika Kohut’s sadomasochistic relationship with her student.
ANSWER: Elfriede Jelinek (“ell-FREE-duh YELL-in-ek”) (The novel is The Piano Teacher.)
Data
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicago A | Penn A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Chicago B | Johns Hopkins A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Duke A | Chicago C | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Georgia Tech A | MIT A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Georgia Tech B | Minnesota B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Illinois A | Michigan A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Imperial A | UC Berkeley A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Indiana A | Columbia B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Maryland A | Harvard A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Minnesota A | Houston A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| NYU A | Cornell B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| North Carolina A | Iowa State A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Northwestern A | Brown A | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Ohio State A | Yale A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Purdue A | Yale B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Rutgers A | Vanderbilt A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Texas A | WUSTL B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Toronto A | Florida A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| UC Berkeley B | Columbia A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| WUSTL A | South Carolina A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |