fables - 2025 ACF Nationals

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Haim Schwarzbaum analyzed the tradition of these things relative to the work of Berechiah ha-Nakdan. The “age” of these things titles the first volume of a collection by Thomas Bullfinch. These things (10[1])are used to describe how to gain and lose friends in the Hitopadesha (“hit-oh-puh-DAY-shuh”). Several of these things created by Bidpai depict two jackals named Kalīlah (10[1])and Dimnah. (10[1]-5[1])The first recreation of Proto-Indo-European literature was one of these texts (10[2])by August Schleicher. (10[8]-5[2])Richard Bentley (10[2])reattributed to Babrius several examples of these texts which are now ordered in the Perry Index. (10[3])A collection of these texts (10[1])includes one about a stork ruling over frogs and another about a crow (10[1])who drops stones into a water pitcher. For 10 points, animals often feature in what moral stories collected by authors (10[1])like Jean de La Fontaine and Aesop? ■END■ (10[2])

ANSWER: fables [accept Aesop’s fables; prompt on myths or mythology; prompt on tales or fairy tales or tall tales; prompt on parables; prompt on morals or aphorisms or maxims by asking “as part of what larger kind of work?”; prompt on stories until read]

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Player	Team	Opponent	Position	Value
Calvin Bostleman	Ohio State	Michigan	31	10
Jakob Myers	Indiana	Columbia A	56	10
Guy Indorante	Iowa State	Chicago B	58	10
Nitin Rao	Harvard	Texas	58	-5
Joseph Chambers	Virginia	Cornell B	69	10
Ryan Rosenberg	NYU	Arizona State	69	10
Benjamin McAvoy-Bickford	North Carolina A	UC Berkeley A	72	10
Annabelle Yang	WUSTL A	Rutgers	72	10
Michał Gerasimiuk	Stanford	Chicago A	72	-5
Akshar Goyal	Illinois A	Toronto A	72	10
Andy Yu	Maryland	UCF	72	10
Jacky Xu	Cornell A	Virginia Tech	72	10
Mattias Ehatamm	Waterloo A	Northwestern	72	10
Cormac Beirne	LSE	Waterloo B	72	10
Henry Bon	Winona State	Illinois B	72	10
Teigue Kelly	Penn State	Yale	72	-5
Amogh Kulkarni	Georgia State	Ottawa	74	10
Anuttam Ramji	UC Berkeley B	WUSTL B	74	10
Tai Belke	British Columbia	Florida	90	10
Sinecio Morales	Johns Hopkins	Minnesota	90	10
Kevin Wang	Georgia Tech	Toronto C	90	10
Cade Reinberger	RIT	North Carolina B	95	10
William Groger	Columbia B	Vanderbilt	108	10
Jem Burch	Yale	Penn State	128	10
Ned Tagtmeier	Chicago A	Stanford	136	10
Athena Shadden	Texas	Harvard	136	10

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Tournament	Exact Match?	TUH	Conv. %	Power %	Neg %	Average Buzz
2025 ACF Nationals	Yes	23	100%	0%	13%	81.74