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
| Stanford A | Berkeley B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Berkeley C | Stanford C | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Stanford B | Berkeley A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| UBC A | Texas A&M A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Michigan State A | Texas A&M B | 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 B | Rowan | 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 |
| Columbia A | Haverford | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Vassar | Johns Hopkins | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| John Jay | NYU B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Geodesic | MTSU | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| NYU A | Penn | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| South Carolina | Georgia Tech B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Tennessee | Vanderbilt B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Vanderbilt A | Kentucky | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Harding | Alabama | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |