Question
As part of a courtroom defense for a brother who steals a cop car, Older Brother claims that this place was always “a construction, a performance of features.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this location that titles a 2020 novel in screenplay format about the actor Willis, who plays background characters in the police procedural Black and White.
ANSWER: Chinatown [accept Los Angeles Chinatown or LA Chinatown; accept Interior Chinatown; reject “Los Angeles” or “LA”]
[10m] Charlie aspires to become a dancer in a Jean Kwok novel titled for this genre “in Chinatown.” The brothers Cesar and Nestor immigrate to New York in an Oscar Hijuelos (“ee-HWELL-ohs”) novel titled for musicians of this genre.
ANSWER: mambo [accept The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love; accept Mambo in Chinatown]
[10e] The Woman Warrior’s controversial claim to this genre is the subject of an essay titled for this genre “as Guided Chinatown Tour.” This genre includes Maya Angelou’s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.
ANSWER: autobiography [or memoir; accept The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts; accept “Autobiography as Guided Chinatown Tour”]
Data
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brown A | Cornell B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Columbia B | WUSTL A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Duke A | Florida B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Illinois A | Chicago C | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Maryland A | Rutgers A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Michigan A | MIT A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Minnesota A | Harvard A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| NYU A | Minnesota B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| North Carolina A | Chicago B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Ohio State A | Columbia A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Penn State A | Georgia Tech A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| South Carolina A | Purdue A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Stanford A | Northwestern A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| UC Berkeley A | Johns Hopkins A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Virginia A | Imperial A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| WUSTL B | UC Berkeley B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Yale A | McGill A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Yale B | Florida A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |