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In a play from this country, a doctor tests the hypothesis that monkeys randomly typing will eventually write Hamlet with chimps named Kafka, Milton, and Swift. (20[2]0[1])That playwright from this non-Russian country wrote the plays Words, Words, Words and Variations on the Death of Trotsky. (20[1]0[1])In a play partly titled for this country, Teach strikes Bob on the head after their plan to steal a (*) buffalo nickel goes (10[3])wrong. (10[5])In (10[1])the first (10[2])act of a play from this country set in a Chinese (10[1])restaurant, (10[3]0[1])a man (10[1])working (10[1])in the (10[1])real (10[1])estate industry (10[2])attempts (10[1])to convince (10[1])his boss Williamson (10[1])to give him a list of "leads." (10[1])For 10 points, the playwright David Ives and the author of Glengarry Glen Ross, David Mamet, are from what country? ■END■ (10[5]0[3])

ANSWER: the United States of America [or equivalents such as America or the USA, accept American Buffalo]
<Literature - American Literature - Drama>
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2025 PACE NSC06/07/2025Y3594%9%0%82.39