Question
In one play, Franz strangles himself with a golden cord from one of these objects to save himself from outlaws. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name these objects, one of which in another play is stood on a pole in a marketplace to identify a king's "loyal subjects," who are obliged to bow to it.
ANSWER: caps [or hats or Hüte or Hut; accept Hutschnuren or Hutschnüre]
[10e] The tyrant Gessler makes peasants bow to a cap in William Tell, a play by this author of The Robbers and "Ode to Joy."
ANSWER: Friedrich Schiller ("FREED-rick SHILL-ur") [or Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller]
[10m] The high emotion of The Robbers, in which Franz commits suicide using his cap, makes the play a typical example of this late-18th-century proto-Romantic movement, whose three-word name comes from a Friedrich Maximilian von Klinger play.
ANSWER: Sturm und Drang ("shturm oont drang") [accept Storm and Stress]
<Literature - European Literature - Drama>
Data
Summary
Tournament | Edition | Exact Match? | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2025 PACE NSC | 06/07/2025 | Y | 35 | 18.86 | 91% | 74% | 23% |