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Question

Despite having a royal flush, the speaker of one poem surprisingly loses a game of poker to this figure who “holds five aces.” For 10 points each:

[10m] Identify this figure who resides on an island in a poetry collection by Anne Sexton titled for “The Awful Rowing Toward” this figure. The speaker of the poem “Ariel” refers to Ariel as this figure’s “lioness.”

ANSWER: God [reject “Jesus”]

[10e] “Ariel” is the title poem of a collection by this author and friend of Sexton who compared her father to “Not God but a swastika” in the poem “Daddy.”

ANSWER: Sylvia Plath

[10h] This author of the mountain climbing book Feeding the Rat wrote about the days leading up to Sylvia Plath’s death in the book The Savage God.

ANSWER: Al Alvarez [or Alfred Alvarez; or A. Alvarez]

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Summary


2024 ACF Regionals @ Berkeley	01/27/2024	Y	3	20.00	100%	67%	33%
2024 ACF Regionals @ JMU	01/27/2024	Y	8	11.25	100%	13%	0%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Minnesota	01/27/2024	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Nebraska	01/27/2024	Y	6	11.67	100%	17%	0%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Ohio State	01/27/2024	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Rutgers	01/27/2024	Y	5	16.00	100%	60%	0%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Imperial	01/27/2024	Y	8	13.75	100%	25%	13%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Vanderbilt	01/27/2024	Y	5	14.00	100%	40%	0%

Data


GWU A (UG)	Duke A (UG)	0	10	0	10
Liberty B (DII)	Virginia C (UG)	0	10	0	10
Maryland A (Grad)	Virginia B (UG)	10	10	0	20
UBC A	Texas A&M A	0	10	0	10
Michigan State A	Texas A&M B	0	10	0	10
Stanford A	Berkeley B	10	10	10	30
Berkeley C	Stanford C	0	10	0	10
Stanford B	Berkeley A	10	10	0	20
Claremont A	Texas A	10	10	0	20
Iowa A	Iowa B	0	10	0	10
UW A	Rice A	0	10	0	10
Sorbonne	Appalachian State	0	10	0	10
Bristol	Cambridge A	0	10	0	10
Oxford A	Cambridge B	0	10	0	10
Cambridge C	Oxford B	0	10	0	10
Durham A	Durham B	0	10	0	10
Imperial A	Oxford C	10	10	10	30
Imperial B	Kiel	0	10	0	10
Edinburgh	KCL	10	10	0	20
Sheffield	Warwick	0	10	0	10
Geodesic	MTSU	10	10	0	20
Harding	Alabama	0	10	0	10
South Carolina	Georgia Tech B	10	10	0	20
Tennessee	Vanderbilt B	0	10	0	10
Vanderbilt A	Kentucky	0	10	0	10
Virginia A (UG)	Maryland B (UG)	0	10	0	10
Maryland C (DII)	Liberty C (DII)	0	10	0	10
UNC A (Grad)	Roanoke College A (DII)	0	10	0	10
UNC B (UG)	Liberty A (Grad)	0	10	0	10
UNC C (UG)	William & Mary A (UG)	0	10	0	10
Minnesota B	Arizona State	0	10	0	10
Iowa State	Minnesota C	0	10	0	10
Ohio State A	Cedarville	0	10	0	10
Michigan A	Kenyon	0	10	0	10
Michigan B	Michigan C	10	10	0	20
Columbia A	Haverford	10	10	0	20
Vassar	Johns Hopkins	0	10	0	10
John Jay	NYU B	10	10	0	20
NYU A	Penn	10	10	0	20
Columbia B	Rowan	0	10	0	10