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Question

In a short story, residents of a town only care about these objects and cabbages, and are horrified when the Devil corrupts one of them. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name these objects central to the short story “The Devil in the Belfry.” In another story, an ebony-colored one of these objects appears in the last of seven different-colored rooms.

ANSWER: clocks (The second story is “The Masque of the Red Death”.)

[10e] This author wrote the stories “The Devil in the Belfry” and “The Masque of the Red Death.” He also wrote “The Tell-Tale Heart.”

ANSWER: Edgar Allan Poe

[10m] In Poe’s short story “A Predicament,” Signora Zenobia gains this condition due to a clock. In a short story by a different author, Brom Bones pretends to have this physical condition to scare Ichabod Crane.

ANSWER: being headless [accept any answer indicating a person without a head; prompt on being dead or being a ghost] (The second story is “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” by Washington Irving.)

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Summary


2024 ACF Fall at Cornell	fall	Y	9	17.78	100%	67%	11%
2024 ACF Fall at Ohio State	fall	Y	8	22.50	100%	100%	25%
2024 ACF Fall at Georgia	fall	Y	12	22.50	100%	83%	42%
2024 ACF Fall at North Carolina	fall	Y	9	18.89	100%	78%	11%
2024 ACF Fall at Claremont Colleges	fall	Y	5	20.00	100%	100%	0%

Data


Binghamton A	Cornell C	10	10	10	30
Binghamton C	Cornell G	0	10	10	20
RIT B	Cornell D	0	10	10	20
Syracuse	Cornell E	0	10	10	20
Cornell F	U of Rochester A	0	10	10	20
Penn State	Cornell A	0	10	10	20
U of Rochester B	RIT A	0	10	0	10
RIT C	Binghamton B	0	10	0	10
CWRU A (UG)	Miami C (DII)	0	10	10	20
Michigan D (UG)	CWRU B (DII)	0	10	10	20
Michigan State A	Miami B (UG)	0	10	10	20
Michigan C	Michigan State B	0	10	10	20
Ohio State A (UG)	Miami A (UG)	10	10	10	30
Michigan A (UG)	Ohio State C (DII)	0	10	10	20
Jefferson County Scholars (DII)	West Virginia A (UG)	10	10	10	30
Michigan B (UG)	West Virginia B (UG)	0	10	10	20
Auburn A	Belmont	0	10	10	20
Emory A	Clemson B	10	10	10	30
Georgia Tech A	Georgia Tech B	10	10	10	30
Georgia Tech D	Alabama A	10	10	10	30
Georgia Tech D	Alabama A	10	10	10	30
Georgia Tech D	Alabama A	10	10	10	30
Georgia Tech D	Alabama A	10	10	10	30
Georgia Tech D	Alabama A	10	10	10	30
Georgia Tech D	Alabama A	10	10	10	30
Georgia Tech D	Alabama A	10	10	10	30
Georgia Tech D	Alabama A	10	10	10	30
Clemson A	Georgia Tech E	0	10	10	20
Clemson A	Georgia Tech E	0	10	10	20
Clemson A	Georgia Tech E	0	10	10	20
Clemson A	Georgia Tech E	0	10	10	20
Clemson A	Georgia Tech E	0	10	10	20
Clemson A	Georgia Tech E	0	10	10	20
Clemson A	Georgia Tech E	0	10	10	20
Clemson A	Georgia Tech E	0	10	10	20
Mississippi State A	Georgia A	0	10	10	20
South Carolina A	Georgia Tech C	0	10	10	20
Auburn B	South Carolina B	10	10	10	30
Southern	Vanderbilt A	0	10	0	10
Vanderbilt B	Tennessee A	0	10	0	10
Virginia Tech B	Appalachian State A	0	10	10	20
Appalachian State B	William & Mary	0	10	0	10
Duke B	James Madison A	0	10	10	20
Liberty B	James Madison B	0	10	10	20
UNC C	NC State	0	10	10	20
Liberty A	Tusculum	10	10	10	30
UNC D	UNC A	0	10	10	20
UNC B	Virginia Tech A	0	10	0	10
Virginia	Duke A	0	10	10	20
Claremont B	UCLA A	0	10	10	20
UCLA C	UCLA B	0	10	10	20
UCLA D	UCLA E	0	10	10	20
Claremont C	UCSD	0	10	10	20
Claremont A	USC	0	10	10	20
Cornell B	ESF	0	10	0	10