Austerlitz - 2025 ACF Regionals

Question

Weathered photographs of a floor plan and a commemorative stamp bookend a celebrated nine-page sentence in this novel that describes the horrors of the Theresienstadt (“tuh-RAY-zin-shtott”) concentration camp. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this W. G. Sebald novel about an architectural historian and kindertransport refugee who travels to Prague in order to discover the fates of his birth parents.

ANSWER: Austerlitz

[10h] James Wood’s introduction to Austerlitz compares the novel’s style of nested dialogue to that of this author. In a novel by this author, Roithamer builds his sister a house he calls the “Cone” in a forest.

ANSWER: Thomas Bernhard [or Nicolaas Thomas Bernhard] (The novel is Correction.)

[10e] The first photographs within Austerlitz juxtapose a close-up of owl eyes with the eyes of this philosopher. In Bernhard’s novel Correction, Roithamer’s life parallels that of this author of the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus.

ANSWER: Ludwig Wittgenstein [or Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein]

<HG, European Literature>

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California	2025-02-01	Y	3	23.33	100%	67%	67%
Florida	2025-02-01	Y	3	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Great Lakes	2025-02-01	Y	6	11.67	100%	17%	0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	Y	6	8.33	67%	17%	0%
Midwest	2025-02-01	Y	6	13.33	83%	17%	33%
North	2025-02-01	Y	3	13.33	67%	33%	33%
Northeast	2025-02-01	Y	5	8.00	80%	0%	0%
Overflow	2025-02-01	Y	5	16.00	80%	60%	20%
South Central	2025-02-01	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Southeast	2025-02-01	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
UK	2025-02-01	Y	10	15.00	90%	50%	10%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	Y	6	13.33	100%	17%	17%
Upstate NY	2025-02-01	Y	3	6.67	67%	0%	0%

Data


UCLA	Claremont B	0	0	10	10
UC Berkeley A	UCSD	10	10	10	30
UC Berkeley B	Claremont A	10	10	10	30
Florida A	UCF C	0	0	10	10
Florida B	UCF B	0	0	10	10
Valencia A	Florida State A	0	0	10	10
Carnegie Mellon A	Michigan D	0	0	10	10
Case Western A	Carnegie Mellon B	0	0	10	10
Ohio State A	Kenyon	0	0	10	10
Michigan A	Case Western B	10	0	10	20
Michigan C	Michigan State	0	0	10	10
Michigan B	Ohio State B	0	0	10	10
Liberty A	William & Mary	0	0	10	10
Virginia Tech A	Liberty C	10	0	10	20
UNC B	Duke	0	0	10	10
South Carolina	UNC D	0	0	0	0
Virginia A	Liberty B	0	0	10	10
Wake Forest	UNC C	0	0	0	0
Chicago A	WashU A	10	10	10	30
Chicago D	Chicago C	0	0	10	10
Illinois A	Chicago B	0	10	10	20
WashU B	Indiana B	0	0	10	10
Missoui S&T	Illinois C	0	0	0	0
Illinois B	Missouri	0	0	10	10
Carleton	Winona State	0	0	0	0
Wisconsin A	Minnesota B	0	0	10	10
Iowa State	Wisconsin B	10	10	10	30
Dartmouth A	Brandeis B	0	0	0	0
Harvard A	Brown A	0	0	10	10
BU	MIT A	0	0	10	10
Harvard B	Tufts A	0	0	10	10
Brandeis A	UMass Boston	0	0	10	10
Georgetown A	Georgetown B	10	0	10	20
Northwestern A	Iowa	0	10	10	20
Northwestern B	Notre Dame A	10	0	10	20
Notre Dame C	Notre Dame B	0	0	0	0
Purdue	Stanford B	10	0	10	20
TAMU	ASU	0	0	10	10
Texas B	Texas A	0	0	10	10
Georgia Tech A	Georgia Tech B	0	0	10	10
Georgia Tech C	Georgia Tech D	10	0	10	20
Tennessee A	Vanderbilt A	0	0	10	10
Southampton A	Cambridge D	0	0	10	10
Cambridge E	Manchester	10	0	10	20
Cambridge A	Durham	10	0	10	20
Oxford A	Imperial B	10	10	10	30
LSE	Bristol	10	0	10	20
Cambridge C	NYU C	0	0	10	10
Oxford B	Warwick A	0	0	0	0
Oxford C	Warwick B	10	0	10	20
Cambridge B	Sheffield	0	0	10	10
Southampton B	Imperial A	0	0	10	10
Cornell B	Maryland A	10	10	10	30
Columbia B	Johns Hopkins A	0	0	10	10
Columbia C	Maryland B	0	0	10	10
Rutgers A	John Jay College	0	0	10	10
Penn A	Vassar A	0	0	10	10
NYU A	Yale A	0	0	10	10
RIT A	Binghamton A	0	0	10	10
ESF A	Cornell C	0	0	0	0
Cornell D	RIT B	0	0	10	10