Question

In The Book of Memory, Mary Carruthers describes how this person recontextualized a speech Cornelia gave in Lucan’s Pharsalia. This person imagined refusing an offer from Augustus in a passage in which they claim to prefer “love to wedlock and freedom to chains.” This real-life person is mentioned in the title of a book whose protagonist’s tranquil life in Clarens is disrupted after she and her cousin Claire meet Saint-Preux (“SAHNT-proo”). A set of 42 questions (10[1])about scripture, known as this person’s “problems,” were written at the Paraclete (“PARE-uh-cleet”). This woman’s uncle Fulbert stopped a correspondence (10[2])that was collected (10[1])in the Historia (10[3])Calamitatum. (10[4])This woman is (10[1])compared (10[2])to a once-virtuous girl in the full title of Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s novel Julie. (10[2])For (10[1])10 (10[1])points, (10[1])name this woman who joined a convent (-5[1])after her love affair with Peter (10[2]-5[1])Abelard. (10[1])■END■ (10[2])

ANSWER: Héloïse [or Héloïse d’Argenteuil or Héloïse du Paraclet; accept Julie, or the New Héloïse; reject “Julie”]
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Summary

2023 ACF Nationals04/22/2023Y24100%0%8%109.38

Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Arya KarthikGeorgia Tech ABrown A7410
Daniel MaYale AWUSTL A9310
Dean Ah NowClaremont AWUSTL B9310
Benjamin McAvoy-BickfordPenn AIowa State A9610
Jonathan ShaufNorth Carolina AIndiana A9910
Joel MilesMinnesota AUC Berkeley A9910
Cormac BeirneMcGill AYale B9910
Chris RayOhio State AStanford A10010
Todd MaslykMichigan AMinnesota B10010
Brad MacLaineTexas AToronto A10010
Matt JacksonChicago ADuke A10010
Alex SchmidtPenn State ARutgers A10310
Albert ZhangColumbia BJohns Hopkins A10410
Cole TimmerwilkeHarvard AChicago C10410
Mitch McCullarIllinois AGeorgia Tech B11710
Alex PijanowskiPurdue ARutgers B11710
Halle FriedmanNYU AUC Berkeley B11810
Caleb KendrickMaryland ACornell A11910
Tracy MirkinFlorida AChicago B12010
Qingyu ZhangFlorida BVanderbilt A127-5
Michael MaysImperial AHouston A13310
Joseph ChambersVirginia ASouth Carolina A13310
Sean DoyleHouston AImperial A133-5
Christopher SimsNorthwestern AColumbia A13410
Nathan SheffieldMIT ACornell B13510
Andrew HannaVanderbilt AFlorida B13510