Bonus
The author of They Divided the Sky incited a “Literature Debate” by waiting until after this event to publish her autobiographical novella What Remains. For 10 points each:
[10h] What event prompts the end of a torrid affair between the student Katharina and the married novelist Hans? An author who was 22 at the time of this event won the 2024 International Booker for that novel, titled Kairos.
ANSWER: the fall of the Berlin Wall [or Mauerfall; accept equivalent answers such as collapse of the Berlin Wall; accept German reunification or equivalents; accept the collapse of East Germany or equivalents; accept German Democratic Republic or GDR in place of “East Germany”; prompt on Peaceful Revolution or Die Wende; prompt on end of the Cold War] (Kairos is by Jenny Erpenbeck.)
[10e] The author of What Remains, Christa Wolf, wrote a novel allegorizing herself as this priestess, whose prophecy of the fall of Troy goes unheeded.
ANSWER: Cassandra [or Kassandra]
[10m] The literature debate, or Literaturstreit (“LIT-uh-rah-toor-SHTRYTE”), was inflamed by the revelation that Wolf had cooperated with the Stasi (“SHTAH-zee”). In a similar scandal, Günter Grass revealed he had served in the Waffen-SS in a 2006 memoir titled for this food.
ANSWER: onion [or zwiebel; accept Peeling the Onion or Beim Häuten der Zwiebel]
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Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| British Columbia | WUSTL B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Chicago A | Columbia A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | HEM |
| Florida | WUSTL A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Illinois A | NYU | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Illinois B | Iowa State | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Indiana | MIT | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| LSE | Maryland | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | M |
| Michigan | Toronto B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | HEM |
| Minnesota | Winona State | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | HEM |
| Northwestern | Georgia State | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Ohio State | Virginia Tech | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Ottawa | Harvard | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | HE |
| Penn State | Virginia | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| RIT | Rutgers | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Stanford | Johns Hopkins | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | HEM |
| Texas | Georgia Tech | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Toronto A | Arizona State | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Toronto C | Chicago B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| UC Berkeley A | North Carolina B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | HE |
| UCF | UC Berkeley B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Waterloo A | Vanderbilt | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | HE |
| Waterloo B | Columbia B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
Summary
| Tournament | Exact Match? | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 ACF Nationals | Yes | 22 | 18.64 | 91% | 64% | 32% |