Chinua Achebe - 2024 ACF Winter

Question

In a reference to this author, a relative of one of his characters is suggested as a second wife for a potentially impotent man in the story “The Headstrong Historian.” For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this author who wrote about Jonathan paying off an officer to return a commandeered bicycle in “A Civil Peace.” A novel by this author opens with the bribery trial of Obi, who tries to marry Clara.

ANSWER: Chinua Achebe [or Albert Chinụalụmọgụ Achebe] (“The Headstrong Historian” is by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. The novel is No Longer At Ease.)

[10e] The girl from “The Headstrong Historian” and Obi are both related to Okonkwo, whose downfall after killing his adopted son Ikemefuna is chronicled in this Achebe novel.

ANSWER: Things Fall Apart

[10h] The osu Chike remembers a song about being flogged in one of these places in a story by Achebe, who also wrote about Michael Obi’s attempts to close the title “Dead Men’s Path” because it cuts through one of these places.

ANSWER: schools [accept village schools or infant schools; accept “Chike’s School Days”]

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Summary


2024 ACF Winter at UC Berkeley	2024-11-16	Y	3	20.00	100%	67%	33%
2024 ACF Winter at Clemson	2024-11-16	Y	8	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Lehigh	2024-11-16	Y	7	18.57	100%	57%	29%
2024 ACF Winter at Northwestern	2024-11-16	Y	9	14.44	89%	56%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Ohio State	2024-11-16	Y	7	14.29	100%	43%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Online	2024-11-16	Y	8	16.25	100%	63%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at UBC	2024-11-16	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Central Florida	2024-11-16	Y	4	12.50	75%	25%	25%
2024 ACF Winter at Oxford	2024-11-16	Y	10	14.00	100%	30%	10%
2024 ACF Winter at Brandeis	2024-11-16	Y	9	17.78	100%	56%	22%

Data


Haverford A	Rutgers A	10	10	0	20
Rutgers C	Bard	0	10	0	10
Texas C	Oregon State	10	10	0	20
Iowa	WUSTL A	10	10	0	20
Bristol B	Durham B	0	10	0	10
Cambridge C	Bristol A	10	10	0	20
Durham A	Imperial B	0	10	0	10
Cambridge B	LSE A	10	10	0	20
Stanford L	Berkeley A	10	10	0	20
Berkeley C	Berkeley B	0	10	10	20
Stanford A	Stanford M	10	10	0	20
WashU D	Indiana B	10	10	0	20
Miami	Purdue A	0	10	0	10
Northwestern A	WashU B	0	10	0	10
UChicago C	Notre Dame	10	10	0	20
Purdue C	Indiana A	0	0	0	0
UChicago B	Purdue D	10	10	0	20
UIUC A	SIUE A	10	10	0	20
UChicago D	UIUC C	0	10	0	10
UChicago A	WashU C	10	10	0	20
UW B	SFU	0	10	0	10
UBC B	UW A	10	10	0	20
Florida Tech B	Florida Tech A	0	10	0	10
UCF B	UF E	0	0	10	10
UF C	UF B	0	10	0	10
UF A	UF D	10	10	0	20
Auburn C	Alabama A	0	10	0	10
Auburn A	Clemson A	10	10	0	20
Emory B	Georgia Tech A	0	10	0	10
Georgia Tech B	Georgia A	10	10	0	20
Georgia Tech D	Georgia Tech C	10	10	0	20
Georgia Tech F	Emory A	10	10	0	20
South Carolina A	Tusculum A	0	10	0	10
Tennesse A	Georgia Tech E	0	10	0	10
Columbia A	Penn State B	0	10	10	20
Penn State A	Columbia B	10	10	0	20
Johns Hopkins A	Rowan A	10	10	10	30
Penn A	Johns Hopkins B	10	10	0	20
Lehigh A	Princeton A	0	10	0	10
Pitt A	CWRU B (UG)	10	10	0	20
Kenyon A (UG)	Michigan D (DII)	0	10	0	10
Michigan C (UG)	Michigan A	10	10	0	20
Michigan B	Ohio State A (UG)	10	10	0	20
Michigan State A	CWRU A (UG)	0	10	0	10
Michigan State B (UG)	CWRU D (DII)	0	10	0	10
CWRU C (UG)	Pitt B (UG)	0	10	0	10
Vassar B	Colorado College	0	10	0	10
Texas B	McGill E	10	10	0	20
Missouri	NYU B	10	10	0	20
Vassar A	NYU A	0	10	0	10
Ole Miss	Texas D	0	10	0	10
Texas A	Mississippi State	10	10	0	20
Cambridge A	Manchester	0	10	0	10
Oxford A	Imperial A	0	10	0	10
Oxford B	Cambridge D	10	10	0	20
Edinburgh	Vanderbilt	0	10	0	10
Birmingham	Warwick A	0	10	10	20
LSE B	Warwick B	0	10	0	10
Yale B	A Brandeis Supreme	10	10	10	30
Clark A	Amherst A	0	10	0	10
Boston University A	Bowdoin B	0	10	10	20
Bowdoin A	BU B	0	10	0	10
Yale A	Brown A	10	10	0	20
Tufts B	Carabrandeis	10	10	0	20
Williams A	Diamond Brandeis	10	10	0	20
Northeastern A	Brandeises Brew	0	10	0	10
Harvard A	Tufts A	10	10	0	20