Christopher Isherwood - 2025 ACF Regionals

Question

A novel by this author begins with the line: “Waking up begins with saying and and now.” For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this English-born novelist who wrote about the grieving gay professor George in A Single Man. This author’s novel Goodbye to Berlin inspired the musical Cabaret.

ANSWER: Christopher Isherwood [or Christopher William Bradshaw Isherwood]

[10h] Isherwood created this wig-wearing communist agent who titles a novel often paired with Goodbye to Berlin. In that novel, the detached aesthete William Bradshaw meets this character on a train from Amsterdam.

ANSWER: Mr. Norris [or Arthur Norris; accept Mr. Norris Changes Trains]

[10e] Because he is “ugly, effeminate, and a masochist,” Joshua Glenn characterized Mr. Norris as the “anti-” this character. This staple of espionage fiction is the star of the novels The Spy Who Loved Me and Dr. No.

ANSWER: James Bond [accept Agent 007]

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Summary


California	2025-02-01	Y	3	20.00	100%	100%	0%
Great Lakes	2025-02-01	Y	5	12.00	100%	20%	0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	Y	6	16.67	100%	50%	17%
Midwest	2025-02-01	Y	6	20.00	100%	67%	33%
North	2025-02-01	Y	3	13.33	67%	67%	0%
Overflow	2025-02-01	Y	5	16.00	100%	60%	0%
Pacific Northwest	2025-02-01	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
South Central	2025-02-01	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
Southeast	2025-02-01	Y	4	20.00	100%	75%	25%
UK	2025-02-01	Y	10	15.00	70%	30%	50%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	Y	8	21.25	100%	88%	25%
Upstate NY	2025-02-01	Y	3	10.00	100%	0%	0%

Data


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