Earth’s moon - 2024 ACF Fall

Question

A “milk” is harvested from this location in a story which recounts how this location used to be closer to the Earth before it was pushed away by the tides. For 10 points each:

[10e] Name this location whose “distance” titles a story in the collection Cosmicomics. In a Jules Verne novel, characters attempt to use a “space gun” to land on this location.

ANSWER: Earth’s moon [accept luna, accept “The Distance of the Moon,” accept From the Earth to the Moon: A Direct Route: 97 hours, 20 minutes]

[10m] Cosmicomics is a collection by this author, who also wrote Invisible Cities. This Italian author unconventionally used the second person in the metafictional novel If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler.

ANSWER: Italo Calvino

[10h] This French author described strapping bottles of dew to himself to reach the moon in his States and Empires of the Moon, where he is told by the Moon’s inhabitants that his famously large nose is a sign of distinction.

ANSWER: Cyrano de Bergerac [or Cyrano de Bergerac]

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Summary


2024 ACF Fall at Cornell	fall	Y	8	16.25	100%	38%	25%
2024 ACF Fall at Ohio State	fall	Y	8	17.50	100%	38%	38%
2024 ACF Fall at Washington	fall	Y	6	16.67	100%	67%	0%
2024 ACF Fall at Georgia	fall	Y	10	14.00	100%	30%	10%
2024 ACF Fall at North Carolina	fall	Y	9	16.67	100%	44%	22%
2024 ACF Fall at Claremont Colleges	fall	Y	5	14.00	80%	60%	0%
2024 ACF Fall at Rutgers	fall	Y	9	34.44	122%	156%	67%
2024 ACF Fall at Illinois	fall	Y	9	20.00	100%	89%	11%

Data


Binghamton A	Cornell A	10	10	10	30
Binghamton B	RIT A	10	0	0	10
ESF	Cornell D	10	0	0	10
RIT B	Cornell F	10	0	0	10
Cornell G	RIT C	10	0	0	10
Penn State	Binghamton C	10	0	0	10
Cornell E	Syracuse	10	10	0	20
CWRU A (UG)	Michigan State B	10	0	0	10
Michigan B (UG)	CWRU C (UG)	10	0	0	10
Michigan D (UG)	Miami A (UG)	10	10	10	30
Miami B (UG)	Miami C (DII)	10	0	0	10
Michigan A (UG)	CWRU B (DII)	10	10	10	30
Michigan State A	Michigan C	10	0	10	20
Ohio State A (UG)	Ohio State C (DII)	10	10	0	20
West Virginia A (UG)	Ohio State B (DII)	10	0	0	10
Alberta	UBC A	10	0	0	10
UBC B	UW Lust	10	10	0	20
UW Greed	UW Chastity	10	0	0	10
UW Envy	Boise State	10	10	0	20
UW Gluttony	UW Wrath	10	10	0	20
UW Pride	UW Sloth	10	10	0	20
Emory Oxford	Auburn A	10	0	0	10
Tennessee A	Auburn B	10	0	0	10
Auburn C	Furman	10	0	0	10
Belmont	Tennessee B	10	0	0	10
Georgia A	Clemson A	10	0	0	10
Clemson B	Georgia Tech C	10	0	0	10
Georgia Tech A	Georgia Tech E	10	10	10	30
Southern	Alabama A	10	10	0	20
South Carolina B	Vanderbilt A	10	0	0	10
Emory A	South Carolina A	10	10	0	20
UNC B	Appalachian State B	10	0	0	10
VCU	Duke A	10	10	0	20
UNC C	James Madison A	10	10	0	20
Liberty A	Liberty C	10	10	0	20
NC State	Duke B	10	0	0	10
James Madison B	UNC A	10	0	0	10
Appalachian State A	UNC D	10	0	10	20
Virginia Tech B	Liberty B	10	0	10	20
Virginia Tech A	Virginia	10	10	0	20
Claremont A	Claremont C	10	0	0	10
Claremont B	UCLA B	10	0	0	10
UCLA A	UCSD	10	10	0	20
UCLA C	UCLA E	10	10	0	20
USC	UCLA D	0	10	0	10
Columbia A	Maryland B	10	10	10	30
Penn A (DII)	Columbia B	10	10	10	30
Columbia J (DII)	Rowan A (DII)	10	10	0	20
Fordham A	Penn B (DII)	10	10	0	20
Maryland A (DII)	Rutgers B	10	10	0	20
NYU B	Lehigh A (UG)	10	10	0	20
Princeton A (UG)	Bard A (UG)	10	0	0	10
Rutgers A (UG)	Lehigh B (DII)	0	10	0	10
Rutgers A (UG)	Lehigh B (DII)	0	10	10	20
Rutgers A (UG)	Lehigh B (DII)	10	10	0	20
Rutgers A (UG)	Lehigh B (DII)	10	10	10	30
Rutgers A (UG)	Lehigh B (DII)	0	10	0	10
Rutgers A (UG)	Lehigh B (DII)	0	10	10	20
Rutgers A (UG)	Lehigh B (DII)	10	10	0	20
Rutgers A (UG)	Lehigh B (DII)	10	10	10	30
WashU B	Chicago B	10	10	0	20
Illinois A	Indiana	10	10	0	20
Notre Dame B	Illinois C	10	10	10	30
Purdue C	Iowa A	10	10	0	20
Northwestern A	Illinois B	10	10	0	20
Chicago A	Northwestern B	10	10	0	20
Purdue B	Notre Dame C	10	0	0	10
Illinois D	SIUE	10	10	0	20
Purdue A	WashU A	10	10	0	20
Cornell C	U of Rochester B	10	10	10	30