Bonus
After taking a little bit of this stuff with him for luck, a man is slashed in the face with a razor while playing dice with Double-Ugly to win back money he stole from the protagonist. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this stuff. After seeing a “mule-talker” named Walter touch this stuff, a jealous future mayor demands that this stuff never be exposed in his general store.
ANSWER: Janie Crawford’s hair [or the hair of Janie Crawford; prompt on hair by asking “Whose hair?”]
[10e] Janie Crawford combs her hair while recalling killing her third husband, “Tea Cake” Woods, in the closing pages of this novel by Zora Neale Hurston.
ANSWER: Their Eyes Were Watching God
[10m] A widow named Teacake Magee is a potential love interest for the mentally disabled Daniel in this author’s novella The Ponder Heart. Mike Fink meets the title character of a novella by this author that resets a Brothers Grimm fairy tale in the American South.
ANSWER: Eudora Welty [or Eudora Alice Welty] (The novella is The Robber Bridegroom.)
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Conversion
Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Arizona State | NYU | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
British Columbia | Florida | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
Cornell A | Virginia Tech | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | HE |
Georgia Tech | Toronto C | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
Illinois B | Winona State | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
Indiana | Columbia A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
Iowa State | Chicago B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
Maryland | UCF | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
Minnesota | Johns Hopkins | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
North Carolina A | UC Berkeley A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
Northwestern | Waterloo A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
Ohio State | Michigan | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
Ottawa | Georgia State | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
Penn State | Yale | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
RIT | North Carolina B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
Stanford | Chicago A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | HEM |
Texas | Harvard | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
Toronto A | Illinois A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
Toronto B | MIT | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
UC Berkeley B | WUSTL B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
Vanderbilt | Columbia B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
Virginia | Cornell B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
WUSTL A | Rutgers | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
Waterloo B | LSE | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
Summary
Tournament | Exact Match? | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2025 ACF Nationals | Yes | 24 | 12.50 | 100% | 17% | 8% |