Candy Darling - 2025 ACF Regionals

Question

This actress is likened to “red bodega roses” and called the “queen of South Queens” in a song titled for her, which precedes an interlude to end St. Vincent’s album Daddy’s Home. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this Warhol superstar. This trans actress titles a song in which the singer claims that “I’ve come to hate my body / and all that it requires” and plans to “watch the blue birds fly.” Her first or last name is acceptable.

ANSWER: Candy Darling [or Candy Darling; accept “Candy Says”]

[10e] “Candy Says” is by this 1960s band, whose singer Lou Reed also sang about her on “Walk on the Wild Side.” A banana adorns Andy Warhol’s cover art for this band’s debut album, which is titled for them “and Nico.”

ANSWER: The Velvet Underground [prompt on The Velvets]

[10m] Despite rumors, Ray Davies insisted that this song was not about a date with Candy Darling. This song set at a “club down in old Soho” describes someone who “squeezed me tight” and “nearly broke my spine.”

ANSWER: “Lola” (by The Kinks)

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Summary


California	2025-02-01	Y	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%
Great Lakes	2025-02-01	Y	5	10.00	80%	20%	0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	Y	6	10.00	83%	17%	0%
Midwest	2025-02-01	Y	6	18.33	83%	50%	50%
North	2025-02-01	Y	3	20.00	67%	67%	67%
Overflow	2025-02-01	Y	5	12.00	100%	0%	20%
Pacific Northwest	2025-02-01	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
South Central	2025-02-01	Y	2	25.00	100%	100%	50%
Southeast	2025-02-01	Y	4	12.50	75%	50%	0%
UK	2025-02-01	Y	10	19.00	90%	80%	20%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	Y	8	17.50	100%	63%	13%
Upstate NY	2025-02-01	Y	3	6.67	33%	33%	0%

Data


UCLA	Claremont A	0	10	0	10
Chicago A	Chicago B	10	10	10	30
Chicago D	Missouri S&T	0	10	0	10
Illinois B	Indiana B	0	10	0	10
Northwestern A	Georgetown B	0	10	0	10
Iowa	Notre Dame B	10	10	0	20
Texas A	TAMU	10	10	10	30
Georgia Tech C	Alabama A	0	10	10	20
Cambridge A	Oxford B	0	0	0	0
Columbia B	Haverford B	0	10	10	20
Cornell B	Columbia C	0	10	0	10
Cornell D	ESF A	0	0	0	0
UC Berkeley A	Claremont B	0	10	10	20
UC Berkeley B	UCSD	0	10	10	20
Carnegie Mellon A	Ohio State A	0	10	10	20
Carnegie Mellon B	Michigan D	0	10	0	10
Case Western A	Case Western B	0	0	0	0
Michigan A	Michigan State	0	10	0	10
Ohio State B	Kenyon	0	10	0	10
Illinois C	WashU A	0	0	0	0
Indiana A	Illinois A	10	10	10	30
Missouri	Chicago C	10	10	10	30
Carleton	Wisconsin A	0	0	0	0
Winona State	Iowa State	10	10	10	30
Minnesota B	Wisconsin B	10	10	10	30
Georgia Tech B	Bruin A	0	0	0	0
Cambridge C	Cambridge E	0	10	10	20
Cambridge B	Cambridge D	0	10	10	20
Imperial A	Durham	0	10	10	20
LSE	Imperial B	0	10	10	20
Manchester	Warwick A	0	10	10	20
Oxford A	Warwick B	10	10	10	30
Southampton A	Oxford C	10	10	10	30
Bristol	Sheffield	0	10	10	20
NYU C	Southampton B	0	10	0	10
NYU A	John Jay College	10	10	10	30
Johns Hopkins A	Rutgers A	0	10	10	20
Penn B	Maryland B	0	10	10	20
George Washington A	NYU B	0	10	10	20
Penn A	George Washington B	0	10	0	10
Yale A	Vassar A	0	10	0	10
William & Mary	Duke	0	10	0	10
UNC B	Liberty A	0	10	0	10
UNC D	Liberty C	0	10	0	10
Virginia Tech A	South Carolina	0	10	10	20
UNC C	Liberty B	0	0	0	0
Virginia A	Wake Forest	0	10	0	10
Georgetown A	Stanford B	0	10	0	10
Purdue	Northwestern B	0	10	0	10
Notre Dame A	Notre Dame C	0	10	0	10
UW A	Alberta	0	10	0	10
UW B	UBC	0	10	0	10
ASU	Texas B	0	10	10	20
Louisville A	Vanderbilt A	0	10	10	20
Tennessee A	Georgia Tech D	0	10	0	10
Cornell C	RIT A	0	0	10	10
RIT B	Binghamton A	0	10	0	10