gulags - 2025 ACF Regionals

Question

Note to moderator: Read the answerline carefully. After leaving one of these places, the protagonist of the unfinished novel Everything Flows visits his scientist cousin, whom he depicts as “Judas I” in an embedded play. For 10 points each:

[10m] The life of poet Oskar Pastior inspired the depiction of teenager Leo Auberg’s time in what sort of place in Herta Müller’s novel The Hunger Angel?

ANSWER: gulags [or work camps; or labor camps; or prison camps; or internment camps; accept Soviet or Russian concentration camps or concentration camps in the USSR; prompt on camps or concentration camps by asking “in what country?”; reject “death camps” or “extermination camps”]

[10h] This Soviet author of Everything Flows drew on his time as a war correspondent to fictionalize the Eastern Front of World War II in the War and Peace-esque doorstopper Life and Fate.

ANSWER: Vasily Grossman [or Vasily Semyonovich Grossman]

[10e] The protagonist of Everything Flows has this first name. A gulag provides the setting for an Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn novel that follows “One Day in the Life of” a man with this first name.

ANSWER: Ivan [or Ivan Denisovich Shukhov; accept One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich or Odin den’ Ivana Denisovicha]

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Summary


California	2025-02-01	Y	3	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Great Lakes	2025-02-01	Y	5	12.00	80%	20%	20%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	Y	6	8.33	67%	0%	17%
Midwest	2025-02-01	Y	6	13.33	100%	17%	17%
North	2025-02-01	Y	3	6.67	33%	33%	0%
Overflow	2025-02-01	Y	5	8.00	80%	0%	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	5	10.00	80%	0%	20%
UK	2025-02-01	Y	10	13.00	60%	10%	60%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	Y	8	8.75	75%	13%	0%
Upstate NY	2025-02-01	Y	3	10.00	100%	0%	0%

Data


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