William S. Burroughs - 2025 ACF Regionals

Question

The opening scene of season 6 of The Sopranos is set to this author’s reading of the “Seven Souls” passage from one of his novels inspired by the Egyptian Book of the Dead. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this novelist of The Western Lands. This author’s thousand-page Word Hoard provided the material for an experimental technique that he incorporated into his novel The Soft Machine.

ANSWER: William S. Burroughs [or William Seward Burroughs II] (The Soft Machine uses the cut-up technique.)

[10e] The Western Lands was influenced by this author’s incorporation of The Book of the Dead into his novel Ancient Evenings. This New Journalism author also wrote The Executioner’s Song and The Armies of the Night.

ANSWER: Norman Mailer [or Norman Kingsley Mailer; or Nachem Malech Mailer]

[10m] This author used The Book of the Dead to subtitle his self-destructing electronic poem Agrippa. Henry Case and the “razorgirl” Molly Millions appear in this author’s novel Neuromancer.

ANSWER: William Gibson [or William Ford Gibson]

<HG, American Literature>

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California	2025-02-01	Y	3	23.33	100%	67%	67%
Great Lakes	2025-02-01	Y	5	8.00	60%	20%	0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	Y	5	12.00	60%	40%	20%
Midwest	2025-02-01	Y	6	21.67	83%	83%	50%
North	2025-02-01	Y	3	10.00	67%	33%	0%
Overflow	2025-02-01	Y	5	10.00	40%	60%	0%
Pacific Northwest	2025-02-01	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
South Central	2025-02-01	Y	2	10.00	50%	50%	0%
Southeast	2025-02-01	Y	3	10.00	67%	0%	33%
UK	2025-02-01	Y	10	9.00	50%	20%	20%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	Y	7	15.71	71%	57%	29%
Upstate NY	2025-02-01	Y	2	5.00	0%	50%	0%

Data


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