Isak Dinesen - 2024 ACF Fall

Question

The Nobel Committee decided not to award the 1959 Nobel Prize in Literature to this author to avoid honoring too many Scandinavians. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this author, who depicted a French maid winning the lottery in “Babette’s Feast.” This author of Seven Gothic Tales recounted her life on a Kenyan coffee plantation in a memoir.

ANSWER: Isak Dinesen [or Karen Christenze von Blixen-Finecke]

[10e] In 1974, Eyvind Johnson, an author from this country, accepted a Nobel having previously argued that Scandinavians were overrepresented. Plays by August Strindberg were premiered in this country’s capital, Stockholm.

ANSWER: Sweden

[10m] The 1959 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to an Italian poet with this last name. In one novel, a hunchbacked character with this first name serves as the bell-ringer of Notre Dame Cathedral.

ANSWER: Quasimodo [accept Salvatore Quasimodo]

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Summary


2024 ACF Fall at Claremont Colleges	fall	Y	5	18.00	100%	60%	20%
2024 ACF Fall at Cornell	fall	Y	8	21.25	100%	100%	13%
2024 ACF Fall at Illinois	fall	Y	9	22.22	100%	100%	22%
2024 ACF Fall at Rutgers	fall	Y	8	21.25	100%	75%	38%
2024 ACF Fall at Ohio State	fall	Y	7	22.86	100%	100%	29%
2024 ACF Fall at Washington	fall	Y	6	21.67	100%	67%	50%
2024 ACF Fall at Georgia	fall	Y	11	22.73	100%	91%	36%
2024 ACF Fall at North Carolina	fall	Y	9	17.78	100%	67%	11%

Data


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