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Question

In a satirical poem by Estanislao del Campo, Anastasio the Chicken tries to recount an operatic retelling of this person, but accidentally reenacts his life instead. For 10 points each:

[10e] Name this scholar from German legend, whose pact with the demon Mephistopheles is depicted in a play by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (“GUR-tuh”).

ANSWER: Faust [accept Heinrich Faust or Johann Georg Faust; accept Doctor Faustus; accept Fausto]

[10m] In Campo’s poem Fausto, Anastasio the Chicken is one of these people. One of these people kills a Black man in a knife fight in an epic poem by José Hernández.

ANSWER: gauchos (The epic poem is Martín Fierro.)

[10h] The jagunço (“zhah-GOON-soo”) Riobaldo (“hee-oo-BAO-doo”) makes a Faustian bargain in this supposedly untranslatable novel by João Guimarães Rosa (“zhoo-OW ghee-muh-RICE HO-zuh”), which ends after the death of the androgynous Diadorim (“jee-uh-doh-REEM”) in a knife fight.

ANSWER: The Devil to Pay in the Backlands [or Grande Sertão: Veredas]

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Summary


2024 ARCADIA at BU	2024-12-06	Y	8	16.25	100%	50%	13%
2024 ARCADIA at Duke	2024-12-06	Y	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Missouri S&T	2024-12-06	Y	1	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Penn State	2024-12-06	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Florida Tech	2024-12-06	Y	4	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley	2024-12-06	Y	2	30.00	100%	100%	100%
2024 ARCADIA at Waterloo	2024-11-09	Y	6	18.33	100%	50%	33%
2024 ARCADIA at GT	2024-12-06	Y	4	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Illinois	2024-11-09	Y	4	20.00	100%	50%	50%
2024 ARCADIA at Warwick	2024-12-06	Y	5	12.00	100%	20%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Claremont	2024-11-02	Y	3	26.67	100%	100%	67%
2024 ARCADIA Online	2025-05-17	N	5	22.00	100%	60%	60%

Data


Amherst	Boston University	10	0	0	10
Boston College A	Bowdoin C	10	10	0	20
Boston College B	Brandeis B	10	0	0	10
MIT	Bowdoin B	10	10	0	20
Tufts B	Clark House	10	0	0	10
Harvard	Clark Wilson	10	10	0	20
Bowdoin A	Tufts A	10	0	0	10
Yale	Brandeis A	10	10	10	30
South Carolina	Virginia Tech A	10	0	0	10
Virginia Tech B	North Carolina A	10	10	0	20
Virginia Tech C	North Carolina B	10	10	0	20
WashU	Missouri	10	10	0	20
RIT	Penn State	10	0	0	10
Maryland	Pitt	10	0	0	10
UF C	Florida Tech	10	0	0	10
UCF A	UCF B	10	10	0	20
Valencia	UF B	10	0	0	10
UF A	USF	10	10	0	20
Berkeley Past	Berkeley A	10	10	10	30
Berkeley B	Stanford	10	10	10	30
Waterloo Aspidistra	Carleton A	10	0	0	10
Ottawa Absolomabsolomabsolom	Toronto B	10	0	0	10
Toronto A	Toronto Metropolitan A	10	10	10	30
Toronto Chestnut Rice and Kamehameha	McMaster ApocolocyntosisBidii	10	10	0	20
Toronto Disband the Club 2k24	McGill A	10	10	10	30
Waterloo Cloze	Waterloo Basic	10	0	0	10
Innovation Academy A	Georgia Tech D	10	10	0	20
Johns Creek	Innovation Academy B	10	0	0	10
Lambert	Georgia Tech A	10	10	0	20
Innovation Academy C	Milton	10	0	0	10
Notre Dame	Chicago B	10	10	0	20
Chicago A	Illinois Blue	10	10	10	30
Illinois Orange	Purdue B	10	0	10	20
Purdue A	SIUE	10	0	0	10
Cambridge A	Bristol	10	10	0	20
Southampton	Cambridge B	10	0	0	10
Warwick A	Imperial B	10	0	0	10
Imperial A	Warwick B	10	0	0	10
Warwick C	LSE B	10	0	0	10
SGV Ventures	Anderson et al.	10	10	10	30
Claremont	ALCU	10	10	0	20
U[C]SD	Jason et al.	10	10	10	30