Friedrich Schiller - 2025 ACF Regionals

Question

After an exhumation of a mass grave, the apparent remains of this author were claimed and taken home by a friend who decided the largest skull must be his. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this author whose lost skull is the focus of a poem at the end of the Wilhelm Meister novel series. This author included The Piccolomini in a trilogy of plays about a 17th-century military leader.

ANSWER: Friedrich Schiller [or Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller] (The trilogy is Wallenstein. The friend in the lead-in is Goethe.)

[10e] The title character of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s Wilhelm Meister novels portrays this Shakespeare character, who rhapsodizes on the skull of his former jester Yorick.

ANSWER: Hamlet

[10h] After growing bored of Hamlet, Wilhelm’s theater troupe puts on this Gotthold Ephraim Lessing play, a retelling of the myth of Virginia in which the title character is stabbed by her father Odoardo.

ANSWER: Emilia Galotti [or Emilie Galotti]

<HG, European Literature>

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Florida	2025-02-01	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
Great Lakes	2025-02-01	Y	6	13.33	100%	33%	0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	Y	6	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Midwest	2025-02-01	Y	2	25.00	100%	100%	50%
North	2025-02-01	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
Northeast	2025-02-01	Y	5	14.00	100%	40%	0%
Overflow	2025-02-01	Y	5	16.00	100%	60%	0%
Pacific Northwest	2025-02-01	Y	2	20.00	100%	100%	0%
Southeast	2025-02-01	Y	4	12.50	100%	25%	0%
UK	2025-02-01	Y	10	13.00	100%	20%	10%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	Y	8	17.50	100%	63%	13%
Upstate NY	2025-02-01	Y	3	10.00	100%	0%	0%

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Illinois A	Chicago A	10	10	0	20
Missouri	Chicago B	10	10	10	30
Oxford A	Bristol	10	10	10	30
Manchester	Cambridge A	0	10	0	10
Cambridge B	Southampton A	0	10	0	10
Southampton B	Cambridge C	0	10	0	10
Cambridge D	Warwick B	0	10	0	10
Cambridge E	Warwick A	0	10	0	10
Florida B	UCF C	0	10	0	10
UCF B	Florida State A	0	10	0	10
Florida A	Valencia A	10	10	0	20
Iowa State	Minnesota B	10	10	0	20
Wisconsin A	Winona State	0	10	0	10
Carleton	Wisconsin B	0	10	0	10
Tufts A	BU	0	10	0	10
Brandeis A	Harvard B	0	10	0	10
Brown A	Brandeis B	0	10	0	10
MIT A	Dartmouth A	10	10	0	20
Harvard A	UMass Boston	10	10	0	20
Durham	NYU C	0	10	0	10
Oxford C	Imperial B	0	10	0	10
Imperial A	Oxford B	10	10	0	20
Sheffield	LSE	0	10	0	10
Kenyon	Carnegie Mellon B	0	10	0	10
Carnegie Mellon A	Case Western A	0	10	0	10
Michigan B	Michigan D	10	10	0	20
Michigan C	Michigan A	0	10	0	10
Michigan State	Ohio State A	0	10	0	10
Ohio State B	Case Western B	10	10	0	20
Duke	Liberty B	0	10	0	10
South Carolina	Liberty C	0	10	0	10
UNC B	Virginia Tech A	0	10	0	10
Virginia A	UNC C	0	10	0	10
UNC D	Liberty A	0	10	0	10
William & Mary	Wake Forest	0	10	0	10
Notre Dame A	Georgetown A	10	10	0	20
Stanford B	Georgetown B	10	10	0	20
Northwestern A	Notre Dame B	10	10	0	20
Notre Dame C	Northwestern B	0	10	0	10
Iowa	Purdue	0	10	0	10
UW A	Alberta	10	10	0	20
UBC	UW B	10	10	0	20
Georgia Tech A	Georgia Tech D	0	10	0	10
Georgia Tech B	Georgia Tech C	0	10	0	10
Vanderbilt A	Alabama A	0	10	0	10
Louisville A	Bruin A	10	10	0	20
Penn B	Columbia B	0	10	0	10
Cornell B	NYU B	10	10	10	30
Johns Hopkins A	George Washington A	10	10	0	20
Rutgers A	Haverford A	0	10	0	10
George Washington B	John Jay College	0	10	0	10
Maryland A	Maryland B	10	10	0	20
NYU A	Haverford B	10	10	0	20
Yale A	Columbia C	10	10	0	20
Binghamton A	ESF A	0	10	0	10
Cornell C	Cornell D	0	10	0	10
RIT A	RIT B	0	10	0	10