Bonus
Disappointment with translations inspired this author to outline “Sixty-Three Words” central to his aesthetics in an essay from The Art of the Novel. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this author of a novel in which entries of a “Short Dictionary of Misunderstood Words” contrast the bowler hat-wearing artist Sabina and her lover Franz.
ANSWER: Milan Kundera
[10m] Kundera praised Hermann Broch’s essay on this word, “Evil in the Value-System of Art.” In The Unbearable Lightness of Being, it is defined as “the absolute denial of shit” and hated by Sabina.
ANSWER: kitsch
[10h] Kundera’s Ignorance opens with an Odyssean etymology of this word’s Greek roots. In a Mircea Cărtărescu (“MEER-chay-uh ker-tuh-RESS-koo”) novel titled in English for this feeling, the sight of a pink lighter triggers an “unbearable” form of it in the section “Mentardy.”
ANSWER: nostalgia (Ignorance defines “nostalgia” using the Greek terms nóstos ‘homecoming’ and álgos ‘pain.’)
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Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arizona State | Yale | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| Columbia B | Winona State | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | EH |
| Florida | Georgia State | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| Georgia Tech | Iowa State | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| Harvard | Chicago B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| Illinois A | Chicago A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| Johns Hopkins | Cornell A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | EMH |
| Maryland | Ohio State | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| Michigan | RIT | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | EMH |
| NYU | WUSTL B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| North Carolina B | Cornell B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| Northwestern | Indiana | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | EH |
| Penn State | LSE | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| Rutgers | North Carolina A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Texas | Toronto B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | EMH |
| Toronto A | WUSTL A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Toronto C | Minnesota | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| UC Berkeley A | Columbia A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| UC Berkeley B | Ottawa | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| UCF | Illinois B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| Vanderbilt | Virginia | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| Virginia Tech | MIT | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| Waterloo A | Stanford | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| Waterloo B | British Columbia | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
Summary
| Tournament | Exact Match? | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 ACF Nationals | Yes | 24 | 19.58 | 100% | 75% | 21% |