Question
In a retelling of The Scarlet Letter by John Updike, a Barthian theology professor with this first name disapproves of Dale Kohler’s attempts to prove the existence of God using a computer program. For 10 points each:
[10e] Give this first name taken by Hester Prynne’s husband along with the last name “Chillingworth.”
ANSWER: Roger [accept Roger Chillingworth; accept Roger Lambert; accept Roger’s Version]
[10m] In the chapter “The Leech and His Patient,” Chillingworth finds evidence of Arthur Dimmesdale’s guilt after looking at this thing, which Dimmesdale shows to a crowd around a scaffold before dying.
ANSWER: Arthur Dimmesdale’s chest [or synonyms such as breast; prompt on skin or flesh or body; prompt on descriptions of a scar or other kind of marking by asking “where is it located?”]
[10h] The Scarlet Letter was published by a company named for William Davis Ticknor and this man, who served as a pallbearer at Hawthorne’s funeral. His widow, Annie Adams, shared a Boston marriage with Sarah Orne Jewett.
ANSWER: James T. Fields [or James Thomas Fields; accept Ticknor and Fields or Ticknor, Reed, & Fields]
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Summary
| 2024 ACF Nationals | 2024-04-21 | Y | 12 | 10.83 | 75% | 33% | 0% |
Data
| Chicago A | Cornell A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Johns Hopkins | Iowa State | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Maryland | Toronto A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Brown | Northwestern | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Purdue | Indiana | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Stanford | Minnesota A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Columbia A | Texas | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Toronto B | Duke | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Berkeley B | Truman State | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| North Carolina A | WUSTL A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Waterloo | Chicago B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Berkeley A | Yale A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |