Merrily We Roll Along - 2024 HONK!

Question

A 1994 off-Broadway revival of this musical attempted to streamline the show by removing songs like “On the Hills of Tomorrow” and “Rich and Happy”. (15[1])A 1985 production of this musical added the song “Growing Up”, which is included between the Second and Third Transitions. An actor in a (15[1])2023 revival of this musical (15[1])said “I will burn the building to the ground” if a co-star of his didn’t win a Tony. (15[3])As opposed (15[1])to its original run, that revival of this (*) Stephen Sondheim musical (10[1]-5[1])cast (10[2])older actors (10[1])to better fit its reverse-chronology format. Another (10[1])actor referenced (10[3])a song from this musical by telling (10[1])castmates “you are more than old friends” in a 2024 acceptance speech. Daniel Radcliffe (10[1])and Jonathan (10[1])Groff won Tonys for their roles in, for 10 points, what musical about Mary, Charley, and composer Franklin Shepard? ■END■ (10[1]0[10])

ANSWER: Merrily We Roll Along

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= Average correct buzz position

Buzzes

Player	Team	Opponent	Buzz Position	Value
Evan Knox	No Longer Free Agents	womt	24	15
Mica Oestreich	Creative Bankruptcy	Inside you there are two wolves. One is brave the other is default	48	15
Ryan Milowicki	Downtown Freddie Brown	Tosca Trio	53	15
Dylan Steptoe	Guelph Neg 4	Von Trapped	71	15
Andrew Xie	The Big Doofus	The Tortured Trivia Department	71	15
Sadie Britton	gaslight gatekeep girlbuzz	Last Among	71	15
Kate Stericker	There's No Spying In Quizbowl	To 500 PPG and Beyond	73	15
Simone Valade	Born to fall out of a coconut tree forced to exist in the context	A greyscale picture of Ishan Joshi	84	-5
Benjamin Kitchen	THE SIXTH SENSE	The Holdovers	84	10
Patrick Robinson	Positive Attitude	The Second Coming of James Wang	85	10
Aidan Leahy	FDA Poop Experiments	Untitled HONK! Team	85	10
Danny Cutbill	The RITes of Zhou	The Master and the MargaRITa	87	10
Mike Bentley	Laniel Automatic Pinball School	honk tuah and squawk on that wing	94	10
Christine Irwin	Negged Five Tossups Then I Freaked It	how hungry... (horse emoji)	96	10
Nadia Dakdouki	Fill in the _______	Skibidiallo Rizzirkzee	96	10
Elliot Norman	Kermit to the Bit	We'd Rather Be at SawCon	96	10
Ava Austin	The of us	NieR: Nǃxau ǂTomata	103	10
Rahim Dina	David and Parth Fan Club	bwthhybl	117	10
Megan Englehart	Fowl Play	Syracuse University New York Everything Sports Fun	119	10
Julianna Cesare	Carleton of Ottawa Fame	Carleton of Not Minnesota Fame	139	0
Corey Safinuk	Carleton of Not Minnesota Fame	Carleton of Ottawa Fame	139	0
Uday Bhardwaj	McGill Asian Goodreads Junta	Honk it Like It's Hot	139	0
Faith Daniel	Honk it Like It's Hot	McGill Asian Goodreads Junta	139	0
John Hayes	Holding Space for the Lyrics of Tequila	The House of the SpiRITs	139	0
Cade Reinberger	The House of the SpiRITs	Holding Space for the Lyrics of Tequila	139	0
Henry Atkins	A greyscale picture of Ishan Joshi	Born to fall out of a coconut tree forced to exist in the context	139	10
Erik Christensen	Martingrobe	AOL Instant Messengers	139	0
Olivia Laufer	AOL Instant Messengers	Martingrobe	139	0
Gareth Thorlakson	Splashed Rat Memorial Highway Crash Investigation Site	Waterloo Cloze	139	0
Jack van Nostrand	Nosfera2: The Return of Bill Skarsgard	not overly fond of geese	139	0

Summary

Tournament	Edition	Exact Match?	TUH	Conv. %	Power %	Neg %	Average Buzz
2024 HONK! @ Waterloo	2024-08-03	Y	8	75%	38%	13%	90.67
2024 HONK! @ Carleton	2024-10-20	Y	4	50%	25%	0%	78.00
2024 HONK! @ Syracuse	2024-12-07	Y	3	67%	0%	0%	103.00
2025 HONK! @ Online	2025-03-09	Y	10	90%	30%	0%	78.44