Question

An essay titled for this place recalls the violent past of the now-peaceful Swiss, who “feast with their mild cheeses and apathetic watches.” The author has “no desire to give shape” to the ideals of Thomas Mann’s Tonio Kröger in an essay titled for this place (10[1])that describes an explorer who saw “pigs with their umbilicus on their backs and birds without feet.” It’s not a country, but an essay titled for this region uses the metaphor of a tiger with flames shooting from its eyes. The narrator proclaims, “Whatever is left of that sleepy hometown in [this region] must awaken” in an essay that opens with a villager (10[1])unaware of “giants in seven-league boots.” The 1982 (10[1])Nobel Lecture is titled “The Solitude of [this (10[1])region]” (10[4]-5[1])and (10[1])is by (10[1])Gabriel (10[1])García (10[1])Márquez. For 10 points, (10[1])Mario Vargas Llosa and Carlos Fuentes (10[1])were part of a 1960s (10[2])literary (10[1])movement (10[3])known as (10[1])what (10[1])region’s namesake “Boom?” ■END■ (10[2])

ANSWER: Latin America [or América Latina; accept Latin American Boom or Boom Latinoamericano; accept “The Solitude of Latin America”; prompt on South America or Sudamérica or América del Sur; prompt on Central America; prompt on “Our America” or “Nuestra América” by asking “what region does that refer to?”]
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Summary

2023 ACF Nationals04/22/2023Y24100%0%4%132.83

Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Nathan ZhangCornell AChicago A4610
Karsten RynearsonYale BClaremont A10910
Anson BernsBrown ADuke A11710
Aiden DartleyRutgers AIowa State A12510
Michał GerasimiukYale AChicago B12610
Cormac BeirneMcGill AVirginia A12610
Isaac MammelMaryland AFlorida A12610
Collin AceRutgers BJohns Hopkins A12610
Alex PijanowskiPurdue ANYU A126-5
James StevensonMichigan AUC Berkeley B12710
Justin HawkinsIndiana AMinnesota A12910
Rodrigo RoseMIT AColumbia A13010
Matt BollingerGeorgia Tech AOhio State A13110
Jim FanNorth Carolina ATexas A13510
Max BrodskyIllinois AWUSTL B14110
Charles HangWUSTL AStanford A14610
Arjun NageswaranHarvard AUC Berkeley A14610
Benjamin McAvoy-BickfordPenn ASouth Carolina A14710
Albert ZhangColumbia BHouston A14810
Robert CondronChicago CCornell B14810
Gareth ThorlaksonToronto ANorthwestern A14810
Ani PerumallaPenn State AGeorgia Tech B15010
Andrew HannaVanderbilt AImperial A15110
Mateo Javier AcostaFlorida BMinnesota B15510
Justin ChenNYU APurdue A15510