“The Fury of Aerial Bombardment” - 2025 ACF Nationals

Bonus

The end of this poem’s title line internally rhymes with the words “relent,” “repent,” and “indifferent” in three later lines about God. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this poem that asks, “Was man made stupid to see his own stupidity?” This Richard Eberhart poem recalls those “gone to early death, who late in school / Distinguished the belt feed lever from the belt holding pawl.”

ANSWER: “The Fury of Aerial Bombardment”

[10e] Another World War II veteran, James Dickey, described his horrifying experiences bombing this country in the poem “The Firebombing.” A John Hersey book follows six survivors of a bombing in this country.

ANSWER: Japan [or Nihon-koku or Nippon-koku] (The John Hersey book is Hiroshima.)

[10m] The speaker of this other poem about a World War II bomber declares, “From my mother’s sleep I fell into the State” and describes waking, “Six miles from earth, loosed from its dream of life.”

ANSWER: “The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner” (by Randall Jarrell)

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Conversion

Team	Opponent	Part 2	Part 3	Total	Parts
Chicago A	Minnesota	10	0	10	E
Columbia A	Michigan	10	0	10	E
Cornell B	Florida	10	0	10	E
Harvard	Cornell A	10	10	20	EM
Illinois B	Indiana	10	10	20	EM
MIT	Yale	10	10	20	EM
Maryland	Ottawa	10	0	10	E
NYU	Virginia	10	10	20	EM
North Carolina A	Vanderbilt	10	0	10	E
Ohio State	Stanford	10	0	10	E
Penn State	RIT	10	0	10	E
Rutgers	Chicago B	10	0	10	E
Texas	Columbia B	10	10	20	EM
Toronto A	North Carolina B	10	10	20	EM
Toronto C	Illinois A	10	0	10	E
UC Berkeley A	Arizona State	10	10	20	EM
UC Berkeley B	Georgia State	10	0	10	E
Virginia Tech	UCF	10	0	10	E
WUSTL A	Iowa State	10	10	20	EM
WUSTL B	Toronto B	10	0	10	E
Waterloo A	LSE	10	10	20	EM
Winona State	British Columbia	10	10	20	EM

Summary

Tournament	Exact Match?	Heard	PPB	Easy %	Medium %	Hard %
2025 ACF Nationals	Yes	22	14.55	100%	46%	0%