Johann Ulrich Voss - 2025 ACF Regionals

Question

A statue of this character is unveiled at the garden party of Belle Radclyffe twenty years after he leads a trek through the wilderness. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this fictional German explorer based on the naturalist Ludwig Leichhardt. This character proposes to Laura Trevelyan in a novel by the author of Riders in the Chariot and The Vivisector.

ANSWER: Johann Ulrich Voss [or Johann Ulrich Voss]

[10e] Voss was written by Patrick White, one of this country’s most acclaimed fiction writers along with Gerald Murnane, Peter Carey, and Thomas Keneally.

ANSWER: Australia [or Commonwealth of Australia]

[10h] This Australian-born author’s scientist characters include the astronomer Ted Tice from her novel The Transit of Venus. This author won the Miles Franklin Award and the National Book Award for The Great Fire, published after a decades-long creative silence.

ANSWER: Shirley Hazzard

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Summary


Florida	2025-02-01	Y	3	10.00	67%	33%	0%
Great Lakes	2025-02-01	Y	6	13.33	100%	33%	0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	Y	6	6.67	67%	0%	0%
Midwest	2025-02-01	Y	6	18.33	100%	83%	0%
North	2025-02-01	Y	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%
Northeast	2025-02-01	Y	5	14.00	100%	40%	0%
Overflow	2025-02-01	Y	4	10.00	75%	25%	0%
Pacific Northwest	2025-02-01	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
South Central	2025-02-01	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Southeast	2025-02-01	Y	4	12.50	100%	25%	0%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	Y	9	15.56	100%	56%	0%
Upstate NY	2025-02-01	Y	3	6.67	67%	0%	0%

Data


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