Ivan Turgenev - 2025 ACF Regionals

Question

Ernest Hemingway’s novel mocking Sherwood Anderson takes its title from a novel by this author in which Sanin recollects his love for the Italian sweetmaker Gemma Roselli. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this author of the autobiographical novel Torrents of Spring. This author fictionalized his affair with his father’s mistress in the novella First Love.

ANSWER: Ivan Turgenev [or Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev]

[10h] Torrents of Spring begins as Sanin comes across one of these objects, prompting his memories of Gemma. In Crime and Punishment, Raskolnikov receives one of these objects from Sonya before going to confess his murders.

ANSWER: crosses [or crucifixes; accept cross necklaces; prompt on necklaces or chains]

[10e] Turgenev’s affair with the Spanish-French opera singer Pauline Viardot inspired his interest in this character, whom he compared to Hamlet in a famous essay. This chivalry-obsessed knight titles a Miguel de Cervantes novel.

ANSWER: Don Quixote [or Don Quixote de la Mancha; or Alonso Quijano; or Alonso Quijano]

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Summary


Florida	2025-02-01	Y	3	13.33	100%	0%	33%
Great Lakes	2025-02-01	Y	6	15.00	100%	17%	33%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	Y	6	10.00	83%	17%	0%
Midwest	2025-02-01	Y	6	16.67	100%	17%	50%
North	2025-02-01	Y	3	16.67	100%	33%	33%
Northeast	2025-02-01	Y	5	12.00	100%	0%	20%
Overflow	2025-02-01	Y	5	16.00	100%	20%	40%
Pacific Northwest	2025-02-01	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
South Central	2025-02-01	Y	2	15.00	100%	0%	50%
Southeast	2025-02-01	Y	4	17.50	100%	25%	50%
UK	2025-02-01	Y	10	16.00	100%	50%	10%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	Y	8	17.50	100%	38%	38%
Upstate NY	2025-02-01	Y	3	10.00	100%	0%	0%

Data


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