Robert Louis Stevenson - 2025 ACF Regionals

Question

While trying to make a dramatic entrance at an artists’ colony by climbing through the window, this author first saw his future wife by candlelight, prompting his essay “On Falling in Love.” For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this author whose relationship with his older, gun-toting American wife Fanny Van de Grift Osbourne is examined in Camille Peri’s book A Wilder Shore. This author wrote “Virginibus Puerisque” and three other essays on marriage.

ANSWER: Robert Louis Stevenson

[10e] Stevenson burned the first draft of this novella and started over after receiving negative feedback from Fanny. In this novella, an elixir transforms a London physician into a monstrous killer.

ANSWER: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde [or Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde; accept Jekyll and Hyde]

[10m] Peri’s book documents the 1888 breakdown of Stevenson’s friendship with this one-legged author, who inspired Long John Silver. This poet wrote “I am the captain of my soul” in “Invictus.”

ANSWER: William Ernest Henley [or W. E. Henley]

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Summary


Florida	2025-02-01	Y	3	10.00	67%	33%	0%
Great Lakes	2025-02-01	Y	6	15.00	100%	50%	0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	Y	6	8.33	83%	0%	0%
Midwest	2025-02-01	Y	6	16.67	100%	67%	0%
North	2025-02-01	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
Northeast	2025-02-01	Y	5	12.00	80%	40%	0%
Overflow	2025-02-01	Y	4	17.50	100%	75%	0%
Pacific Northwest	2025-02-01	Y	2	20.00	100%	100%	0%
South Central	2025-02-01	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Southeast	2025-02-01	Y	4	15.00	100%	50%	0%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	Y	9	11.11	89%	22%	0%
Upstate NY	2025-02-01	Y	3	10.00	100%	0%	0%

Data


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