Question

Upon arriving at one of these places, the title character of a novel is told he must “sit for his portrait,” which involves the employees visually examining him. In another novel, a man follows a seamstress to one of these places while investigating the mystery of a watch with the inscription “D.N.F.” The rent collector Pancks discovers that William, who is nicknamed the “father of” one of these places, is the heir to a significant fortune. To find out about a resident of one of these places, Arthur Clennam visits a parody of British bureaucracy called the Circumlocution Office. Alfred Jingle gets out of one of these places with the help of Pickwick (10[1])in The Pickwick Papers. (-5[1])The title character of Little Dorrit (10[2])is (10[1])born (10[2]-5[1])in one (-5[1])of (10[1])these (-5[1])specific (10[1]-5[2])institutions, (10[1])where her father (10[1])is held for decades. (10[1]-5[2])For (10[1])10 points, what institutions (10[2])included the Marshalsea (10[1])where Charles Dickens’s father was confined? (10[2])■END■ (10[5]0[2])

ANSWER: debtors’ prisons [accept synonyms such as jail in place of “prison”; prompt on prisons or jails or other synonyms]
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Summary

2023 ACF Nationals04/22/2023Y2492%0%33%136.91

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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Tanis NielsenClaremont ASouth Carolina A11210
Anuttam RamjiUC Berkeley BPurdue A116-5
Anson BernsBrown AChicago B12210
Matt JacksonChicago AYale A12210
Chris RayOhio State AWUSTL A12310
Ashish SubramanianDuke AMaryland A12410
Albert ZhangColumbia BNYU A12410
Mitch McCullarIllinois AIowa State A124-5
Vedul PalavajjhalaWUSTL BYale B126-5
Collin AceRutgers BVanderbilt A12710
Raymond ChenToronto AColumbia A128-5
Jonathan VaysmanMichigan AImperial A129-5
Rosa XiaCornell BNorth Carolina A12910
Sean DoyleHouston AFlorida B129-5
Mazin OmerHarvard ATexas A13010
Alex SchmidtPenn State APenn A13310
Eve FleisigUC Berkeley AMIT A13710
Justin HawkinsIndiana ANorthwestern A137-5
Arya KarthikGeorgia Tech ACornell A137-5
Robert CondronChicago CMinnesota A13810
Tracy MirkinFlorida AStanford A14210
Cormac BeirneMcGill ARutgers A14210
Seth EbnerJohns Hopkins AMinnesota B14510
Conor ThompsonIowa State AIllinois A15110
Alex PijanowskiPurdue AUC Berkeley B15110
Mateo Javier AcostaFlorida BHouston A1520
Gio MazzeoVirginia AGeorgia Tech B15210
Christopher SimsNorthwestern AIndiana A15210
John John GrogerColumbia AToronto A15210
Jonathan TranCornell AGeorgia Tech A15210
Enoch YuenImperial AMichigan A15210
Karsten RynearsonYale BWUSTL B1520