space stations - 2025 ACF Regionals

Question

Shaun compares life in one of these places to Las Meninas in a Samantha Harvey novel set in one of these places that won the 2024 Booker Prize. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this sort of place where the psychologist Kris Kelvin is visited by a copy of his dead wife sent by a sentient ocean. That novel set in this sort of place is Solaris by Stanisław Lem (“stah-NEE-swoff lem”).

ANSWER: space stations [or research stations in space; accept spaceships; accept International Space Station or ISS; accept Solaris Station; prompt on research stations or research facilities]

[10e] Lem also explored alien contact in a novel titled The Man from [this planet]. This planet is the setting of a Ray Bradbury novel titled for its “Chronicles.”

ANSWER: Mars [accept The Man from Mars or The Martian Chronicles]

[10h] Lem wrote more lighthearted stories of space travel in his series The Star Diaries, which features the adventures of this recurring Lem character, who also appears in the novel The Futurological Congress.

ANSWER: Ijon Tichy (“EE-yohn TEE-hee”) [or Ijon Tichy]

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Summary


California	2025-02-01	Y	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%
Florida	2025-02-01	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	Y	6	13.33	100%	33%	0%
Midwest	2025-02-01	Y	6	18.33	100%	83%	0%
North	2025-02-01	Y	3	20.00	100%	100%	0%
Northeast	2025-02-01	Y	5	16.00	100%	60%	0%
Overflow	2025-02-01	Y	5	18.00	100%	80%	0%
South Central	2025-02-01	Y	2	20.00	100%	100%	0%
Southeast	2025-02-01	Y	4	12.50	75%	50%	0%
UK	2025-02-01	Y	10	16.00	90%	70%	0%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	Y	8	17.50	100%	75%	0%
Upstate NY	2025-02-01	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%

Data


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