Question

A fictional writer who lives in this city dresses up as Mephistopheles to attend a masked ball where he fails to seduce the banker Cohen’s wife Rachel. The classics teacher Herman falls asleep in Amsterdam and wakes up in this city (10[1])in Cees Nooteboom’s (“sace NO-tuh-boam’s”) The Following Story. The grandfather of an aristocratic family from this capital city dies after learning that his two grandchildren are lovers. This city titles a novel in which a proofreader falls in love with his new supervisor after being reprimanded for adding the word (10[2])“not” to a manuscript about a historical event. (10[1])The (10[1])hotel maid Lydia and the (10[1])socialite Marcenda have affairs with a character in this city, who himself is a creation of an author from here who wrote a “factless (10[2])autobiography” (10[6]-5[1])containing (10[3])personas (10[1])he called “heteronyms.” (10[2])For (10[1])10 points, name this (10[1])capital city where Ricardo Reis meets the ghost of Fernando Pessoa in a book by native son José Saramago. ■END■ (10[2])

ANSWER: Lisbon [or Lisboa; accept The History of the Siege of Lisbon or História do Cerco de Lisboa] (The first and third sentences refer to The Maias by Eça de Queirós. The fourth sentence references The History of the Siege of Lisbon by José Saramago.)
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Summary

2023 ACF Nationals04/22/2023Y24100%0%4%120.25

Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Matthew LehmannWUSTL AMaryland A4010
Enoch YuenImperial AUC Berkeley B8810
Wenying WuToronto AMinnesota A8810
Kevin FanMcGill APenn State A9610
Justin HawkinsIndiana ACornell B9710
Matt BollingerGeorgia Tech AStanford A10210
Mitch McCullarIllinois AClaremont A12610
Raymond WangCornell AOhio State A12610
Amogh KulkarniChicago BChicago A12710
Darren PetrosinoRutgers AVirginia A12710
Anson BernsBrown AFlorida A12710
Ricky LiMIT ANorthwestern A12710
Eve FleisigUC Berkeley AColumbia A127-5
Mazin OmerHarvard ANorth Carolina A12710
Arthur Delot-VilainYale ADuke A12710
Tegan KapadiaGeorgia Tech BSouth Carolina A12810
Seth EbnerJohns Hopkins AVanderbilt A12810
Jisoo YooTexas AChicago C12810
Matthew SiffYale BPenn A12910
Alex PijanowskiPurdue AHouston A13210
James StevensonMichigan ANYU A13210
Collin AceRutgers BFlorida B13310
Guy IndoranteIowa State AWUSTL B13710
Forrest WeintraubColumbia BMinnesota B15710
Noah SheidlowerColumbia AUC Berkeley A15710