Bonus
A stillborn baby girl is among the narrators of an ekphrastic poem about this event by David Dabydeen. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name or describe this event. Legal documents from a court case concerning this event are “decontaminated” by white space in a book-length poem by M. NourbeSe (“noor-BEH-seh”) Philip.
ANSWER: Zong massacre [accept answers describing slaves being thrown off a ship; accept answers describing the incident depicted in The Slave Ship] (The Dabydeen poem is Turner.)
[10e] The image of a flailing limb from J. M. W. Turner’s The Slave Ship ends the book-length poem Citizen, whose author Claudia Rankine was born in this country. The Antiguan author of Annie John took this island country as a pen name.
ANSWER: Jamaica (The author is Jamaica Kincaid.)
[10m] Slave ships are likened to “Shuttles in the rocking loom of history” in this poem by Robert Hayden, which opens with names of four ships: “Jesús, Estrella, Esperanza, Mercy.”
ANSWER: “Middle Passage”
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Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| British Columbia | Arizona State | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Chicago A | Indiana | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | HEM |
| Columbia A | Toronto A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Cornell B | Vanderbilt | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Georgia State | Penn State | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | HEM |
| Georgia Tech | Toronto B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Iowa State | Harvard | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Johns Hopkins | Texas | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| LSE | Yale | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| MIT | Minnesota | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Michigan | Illinois B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| North Carolina A | WUSTL A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Ohio State | Columbia B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Ottawa | NYU | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| RIT | Maryland | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Rutgers | Northwestern | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Toronto C | Cornell A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| UC Berkeley A | Stanford | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| UC Berkeley B | Waterloo B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| UCF | Virginia | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Virginia Tech | Chicago B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| WUSTL B | Florida | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Waterloo A | Illinois A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Winona State | North Carolina B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
Summary
| Tournament | Exact Match? | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 ACF Nationals | Yes | 24 | 15.83 | 92% | 58% | 8% |