Nicaragua - 2024 ACF Regionals

Question

In 2021, a Cervantes-Prize-winning author and former vice president from this country fled after his mystery novel Dead Men Cast No Shadows was censored. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this home country of Sergio Ramírez. Another author from this country described the sea as a “vast silvered mirror” in the poem “Symphony in Gray Major” and wrote the collection Azul….

ANSWER: Nicaragua

[10e] An old man fools corrupt colonial bureaucrats in the 16th-century Nicaraguan play El Güegüense (“el gweh-GWEN-say”), in which actors wear these objects. A smiling and frowning pair of these objects symbolizes comedy and tragedy.

ANSWER: masks

[10h] Like Ramírez, this Nicaraguan author and liberation theologian drew on his involvement with the Sandinistas in his writing. The speaker repeats, “Watchman! What hour is it of the night?” in this author’s poem “Zero Hour.”

ANSWER: Ernesto Cardenal

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Summary


2024 ACF Regionals @ Berkeley	01/27/2024	Y	3	20.00	100%	67%	33%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Cornell	01/27/2024	Y	3	20.00	100%	67%	33%
2024 ACF Regionals @ JMU	01/27/2024	Y	11	15.45	100%	46%	9%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Minnesota	01/27/2024	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Nebraska	01/27/2024	Y	6	18.33	100%	67%	17%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Ohio State	01/27/2024	Y	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Rutgers	01/27/2024	Y	5	16.00	100%	60%	0%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Imperial	01/27/2024	Y	4	15.00	100%	25%	25%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Vanderbilt	01/27/2024	Y	5	18.00	100%	60%	20%

Data


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