Cosmicomics - 2024 ACF Winter

Question

The Moon is called a “gray ball” in the preface to this collection’s story “Without Colors.” For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this short story collection that begins with a story in which the narrator falls in love with the captain’s wife, “The Distance of the Moon.” Like the author’s collection t-zero, this collection is narrated by Qfwfq (“KIF-wifk”).

ANSWER: Cosmicomics

[10e] Cosmicomics is a collection by this Italian author, who also wrote the novels Invisible Cities and If on a winter’s night a traveler.

ANSWER: Italo Calvino

[10h] Qfwfq’s love for Mrs. Vhd Vhd (“vid vid”) in “The Distance of the Moon” is unreciprocated because of her own love for a character described by this attribute. After that character with this physical trait prods the moon away from Earth with a pole, Mrs. Vhd Vhd remains on the moon because it is that character’s true love.

ANSWER: deafness [accept the Deaf One] (The character is Qfwfq’s deaf cousin, referred to as the Deaf One.)

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Summary


2024 ACF Winter at UC Berkeley	2024-11-16	Y	3	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Lehigh	2024-11-16	Y	6	13.33	83%	50%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Northwestern	2024-11-16	Y	9	13.33	89%	44%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Ohio State	2024-11-16	Y	7	12.86	86%	29%	14%
2024 ACF Winter at Online	2024-11-16	Y	8	15.00	100%	38%	13%
2024 ACF Winter at UBC	2024-11-16	Y	3	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Central Florida	2024-11-16	Y	5	14.00	80%	60%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Oxford	2024-11-16	Y	11	13.64	91%	36%	9%
2024 ACF Winter at Brandeis	2024-11-16	Y	10	10.00	80%	20%	0%

Data


Berkeley A	Berkeley C	10	10	0	20
Berkeley B	Stanford A	10	10	0	20
Stanford L	Stanford M	10	10	0	20
Bard A	Columbia B	10	10	0	20
Penn B	Penn State B	0	0	0	0
Penn State A	Penn A	10	10	0	20
Lehigh A	Rutgers C	0	10	0	10
Haverford A	Rowan A	0	10	0	10
Johns Hopkins A	Columbia A	10	10	0	20
Notre Dame	WashU D	0	10	0	10
Purdue A	UIUC B	0	10	0	10
Indiana B	Purdue D	10	10	0	20
UChicago B	SIUE A	0	10	0	10
UIUC D	UChicago D	0	0	0	0
Indiana A	UIUC A	10	10	0	20
UChicago A	UIUC C	10	10	0	20
WashU B	UChicago C	10	10	0	20
Northwestern A	WashU C	0	10	0	10
CWRU B (UG)	CWRU D (DII)	0	10	0	10
Kenyon B (DII)	Michigan C (UG)	0	0	0	0
Michigan State B (UG)	Kenyon A (UG)	0	10	0	10
CWRU A (UG)	Michigan State C (UG)	0	10	0	10
Pitt B (UG)	Ohio State B (DII)	0	10	0	10
Michigan B	Ohio State C (DII)	10	10	0	20
Pitt A	Michigan D	10	10	10	30
Arkansas	McGill E	0	10	0	10
Central Oklahoma	NYU A	10	10	10	30
Mississippi State	Vassar B	0	10	0	10
Missouri	Texas B	10	10	0	20
WUSTL A	Ole Miss	0	10	0	10
Texas A	NYU B	10	10	0	20
Texas C	Texas D	0	10	0	10
Vassar A	Oregon State	0	10	0	10
UBC A	UW B	10	10	0	20
UBC B	Alberta	10	10	0	20
UW A	SFU	10	10	0	20
Florida State University A	UCF B	0	10	0	10
UF A	UF B	10	10	0	20
UCF A	UF C	10	10	0	20
UF D	Florida Tech B	0	0	0	0
UF E	Florida Tech A	10	10	0	20
Birmingham	Oxford B	0	10	0	10
Imperial A	Bristol B	0	10	0	10
Cambridge B	Southampton B	10	10	0	20
Durham B	Cambridge D	0	10	0	10
Durham A	Edinburgh	0	10	0	10
Imperial B	Warwick B	0	10	0	10
Cambridge C	LSE B	0	10	0	10
LSE A	Southampton A	10	10	0	20
Southampton A	Southampton B	0	0	10	10
Team 1	Oxford A	10	10	0	20
Bristol A	Warwick A	10	10	0	20
A Brandeis Supreme	Boston University B	0	10	0	10
Williams A	Amherst A	0	10	0	10
Bowdoin A	Yale B	0	0	0	0
Brown A	Carabrandeis	0	10	0	10
Clark A	Bowdoin B	0	0	0	0
Harvard A	Brandeises Brew	10	10	0	20
Northeastern A	MIT A	0	10	0	10
Yale A	Tufts B	10	10	0	20
Yale C	Tufts A	0	10	0	10
Boston University A	Diamond Brandeis	0	10	0	10