“Lady Lazarus” - 2025 ACF Fall

Question

When poked and stirred, the speaker of this poem is found to contain “A cake of soap, / A wedding ring,” and “A gold filling.” For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this poem, in which “a smiling woman” who is “only thirty,” proclaims “I rise with my red hair and / I eat men like air.”

ANSWER: “Lady Lazarus”

[10e] This author of “Lady Lazarus” described “a man in black with a Meinkampf look” in the poem “Daddy.”

ANSWER: Sylvia Plath

[10h] Ten years after Plath’s death, Robin Morgan accused this man of “the murder of Sylvia Plath” in the poem “Arraignment.” This author’s poem “The Thought-Fox” appears in his collection The Hawk in the Rain.

ANSWER: Ted Hughes [or Edward James Hughes]

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Summary


Northern California	Main	Y	4	12.50	75%	25%	25%
Southern California	Main	Y	7	11.43	86%	14%	14%
Eastern Canada (1)	Main	Y	4	27.50	100%	75%	100%
Eastern Canada (2)	Main	Y	9	20.00	89%	56%	56%
Florida	Main	Y	4	5.00	50%	0%	0%
Great Lakes	Main	Y	11	20.00	100%	46%	55%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	9	18.89	89%	56%	44%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	12	13.33	83%	17%	33%
Midwest	Main	Y	9	17.78	89%	33%	56%
North	Main	Y	4	7.50	50%	25%	0%
Northeast	Main	Y	12	16.67	83%	33%	50%
Pacific	Main	Y	8	18.75	100%	38%	50%
South Central	Main	Y	6	13.33	83%	33%	17%
Southeast	Main	Y	12	20.00	92%	50%	58%
UK (North)	UK	Y	5	18.00	80%	20%	80%
UK (South)	UK	Y	7	8.57	43%	0%	43%
Upstate NY	Main	Y	5	10.00	60%	20%	20%

Data


Berkeley Boss Bandit	Berkeley Archer Queen	0	10	0	10
Stanford A	Berkeley Mighty Miner	0	0	0	0
Berkeley Skeleton King	Stanford B	0	10	0	10
UCLA F	Claremont C	0	0	0	0
UCLA C	UCSD A	0	10	0	10
UCSD B	USC A	0	10	0	10
UC Santa Barbara	USC B	10	10	10	30
McGill A	Carleton B	10	10	10	30
Carleton A	McGill C	10	10	10	30
Ottawa D	McGill E	0	10	10	20
Ottawa B	Ottawa C	10	10	10	30
McMaster A	Brock A	10	10	10	30
Guelph A	McMaster C	10	10	0	20
McMaster B	Queen's A	10	10	10	30
Toronto A	Toronto D	0	10	0	10
Toronto G	Toronto B	0	10	10	20
Toronto E	Toronto F	10	10	10	30
Waterloo A	Toronto I	10	10	10	30
Toronto H	Waterloo B	0	0	0	0
Toronto C	Waterloo C	0	10	0	10
Florida B	Florida Tech B	0	0	0	0
Florida A	Florida Tech A	0	10	0	10
ERAU Daytona A	South Florida A	0	10	0	10
Florida State A	UCF A	0	0	0	0
UCLA A	UCLA E	0	10	0	10
UC Irvine	UCLA B	0	10	0	10
UCLA D	Claremont B	0	10	0	10
CWRU A	Ohio State D	10	10	10	30
Michigan A	CWRU C	10	10	10	30
Kentucky	WVU A	0	10	0	10
Louisville D	Michigan D	0	10	10	20
Louisville B	Michigan B	0	10	0	10
CWRU B	Michigan C	10	10	10	30
Ohio State B	Michigan State C	10	10	0	20
Michigan State D	Michigan State B	0	10	0	10
Ohio State A	CWRU D	10	10	10	30
Pittsburgh	Louisville C	0	10	0	10
Michigan State A	WVU B	0	10	10	20
Duke A	JMU B	10	10	10	30
UNC B	Liberty A	10	10	0	20
NCSU A	Liberty B	0	10	0	10
NCSU B	JMU A	0	10	0	10
UNC C	Tusculum A	0	10	0	10
UNC D	Virginia Tech C	10	10	10	30
VCU A	Virginia Tech B	10	10	10	30
Virginia A	William & Mary B	10	10	10	30
William & Mary C	Virginia Tech A	0	0	0	0
Columbia A	Lehigh A	0	10	0	10
George Mason A	Columbia B	0	10	0	10
Lehigh B	Maryland B	0	0	0	0
Rutgers D	Maryland C	0	10	10	20
NYU A	NYU B	0	10	10	20
Penn	Rutgers B	0	10	0	10
George Mason C	Princeton	0	10	0	10
Johns Hopkins	Rowan	0	10	0	10
Rutgers C	George Mason B	0	10	0	10
Maryland A	Stony Brook	10	10	10	30
Vassar A	NYU C	0	0	0	0
Rutgers A	Vassar B	10	10	10	30
Berkeley Little Prince	UCSC	10	10	10	30
Illinois Blue	Rose-Hulman A	10	10	10	30
Illinois Orange	Chicago B	0	10	0	10
Minnesota	Michigan Tech	0	0	0	0
St. Thomas	Iowa State	10	10	0	20
Wisconsin B	Macalester	0	0	0	0
Wisconsin C	Wisconsin A	0	10	0	10
Amherst A	Vermont A	0	10	10	20
Boston College A	Williams A	0	10	10	20
Brandeis Mozart	Dartmouth A	0	10	10	20
Brandeis Bach	Brown A	10	10	10	30
Brown B	Amherst B	10	10	10	30
Boston College B	Dartmouth C	0	10	10	20
Brandeis Beethoven	MIT A	0	10	0	10
Tufts A	Boston University B	0	10	0	10
Dartmouth B	Tufts C	10	10	0	20
Harvard	Tufts B	0	0	0	0
MIT B	Williams B	0	0	0	0
Boston University A	Williams C	10	10	0	20
Alberta A	Washington Coho	10	10	10	30
Washington Steelhead	Arizona State B	10	10	0	20
Washington Chum	Boise State	0	10	0	10
British Columbia A	Washington Chinook	0	10	10	20
Purdue A	Iowa A	10	10	10	30
Illinois Canada	Iowa B	0	0	0	0
WashU Grolars	Purdue B	10	10	10	30
Purdue C	Indiana B	0	10	10	20
Purdue D	Illinois Champaign	0	10	0	10
WashU Grizzlers	Illinois Urbana	0	10	0	10
Indiana A	William Woods University A	0	10	10	20
Nebraska C	Central Oklahoma A	0	10	0	10
Harding	Kansas State B	0	0	0	0
Kansas State A	Murray State College A	0	10	0	10
Murray State College B	Nebraska B	0	10	0	10
Tulsa B	Nebraska A	10	10	0	20
Tulsa A	Central Oklahoma B	10	10	10	30
Texas	Washington Atlantic	0	10	0	10
British Columbia C	Washington Masu	0	10	0	10
Washington Pink	Alberta B	10	10	10	30
Washington Sockeye	Washington State	0	10	10	20
Vanderbilt B	Tennessee Tech	0	0	0	0
Vanderbilt C	Alabama A	0	10	0	10
Edinburgh A	Durham D	10	10	10	30
Durham C	Edinburgh B	0	10	10	20
Edinburgh C	York	0	10	10	20
Durham A	Sheffield A	0	10	0	10
Sheffield B	Edinburgh D	0	0	10	10
Cambridge A	Imperial B	0	10	10	20
Cambridge C	Oxford	0	10	10	20
Cambridge D	Imperial C	0	0	0	0
Birmingham	Cambridge E	0	0	0	0
Cardiff	Warwick	0	10	0	10
LSE	Bristol	0	0	0	0
Imperial D	Southampton	0	0	10	10
Auburn C	Auburn A	0	10	0	10
Clemson C	Clemson A	0	10	0	10
Emory A	Auburn B	10	10	10	30
Georgia Tech B	Georgia A	10	10	0	20
Chipola College	Georgia Tech C	0	10	10	20
South Carolina A	Georgia Tech D	10	10	10	30
Georgia Tech A	Georgia Tech E	10	10	10	30
Tennessee A	Georgia Tech F	0	10	10	20
Mississippi State A	Sewanne	10	10	10	30
Vanderbilt A	Montevallo	10	10	10	30
RIT B	Binghamton B	0	0	0	0
Binghamton C	Binghamton A	0	10	0	10
Cornell D	Cornell B	10	10	10	30
RIT A	Cornell A	0	10	0	10
Rochester	ESF	0	0	0	0