maps - 2025 ACF Nationals

Bonus

Saleh says, “I speak to [these things]. And sometimes they say something back to me” in By the Sea by Abdulrazak Gurnah, whose Nobel Lecture appears in a book titled for them. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name these objects. Uncle Qorrax (“KOH-rahkh”) gifts some of them to an orphan whom Misra raises after his father dies in a civil war in a novel titled for them that opens the Blood in the Sun trilogy.

ANSWER: maps [accept Map Reading or Maps] (Maps is by Nuruddin Farah.)

[10e] Gurnah’s Paradise is seen as “writing back” this book, whose narrator admits, “Now when I was a little chap I had a passion for maps.” Chinua Achebe’s (“uh-CHEH-bay”) essay “An Image of Africa” attacks this novella.

ANSWER: Heart of Darkness (by Joseph Conrad)

[10m] The book Remapping African Literature links Marlowe’s maps to this coiner of the term “imaginative geographies.” He discussed the urge to map in the essay “Two Visions in Heart of Darkness.”

ANSWER: Edward Said (“sah-EED”) [or Edward Wadie Said] (Remapping African Literature is by Olabode Ibironke.)

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Conversion

Team	Opponent	Part 1	Part 2	Part 3	Total	Parts
Arizona State	WUSTL B	0	10	10	20	EM
Chicago A	Toronto A	0	10	10	20	EM
Cornell A	Chicago B	0	10	10	20	EM
Illinois A	Columbia A	0	10	0	10	E
Iowa State	Johns Hopkins	0	10	0	10	E
Maryland	Virginia	0	10	0	10	E
NYU	British Columbia	0	10	0	10	E
North Carolina A	Northwestern	0	10	0	10	E
Penn State	Ottawa	0	10	10	20	EM
Texas	MIT	0	10	10	20	EM
Toronto C	Toronto B	10	10	0	20	HE
UC Berkeley A	Indiana	0	10	0	10	E
UC Berkeley B	Yale	0	10	10	20	EM
UCF	Vanderbilt	0	10	10	20	EM
WUSTL A	Stanford	0	10	0	10	E
Waterloo A	Rutgers	0	10	10	20	EM
Waterloo B	Florida	10	10	0	20	HE

Summary

Tournament	Exact Match?	Heard	PPB	Easy %	Medium %	Hard %
2025 ACF Nationals	Yes	17	15.88	100%	47%	12%