orangutans - 2025 ACF Fall

Question

An author described the murder of 8 men dressed as these animals by the title jester in the story “Hop-Frog.” For 10 points each:

[10h] In another story by that author, it is revealed that the deaths of Madame L’Espanaye (“less-pah-NYE”) and her daughter were caused by one of what animals?

ANSWER: orangutans [or ourang-outangs; accept Pongo; prompt on great apes or primates; reject “monkeys”]

[10e] C. Auguste Dupin deduces the orangutan’s guilt in “The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” a short story by this author. This author also described Fortunato’s one-way trip into a wine cellar in “The Cask of Amontillado.”

ANSWER: Edgar Allan Poe

[10m] In another Poe story, a man with this surname becomes increasingly agitated while the narrator reads him The Mad Trist. That story ends with Madeline, a woman with this surname, scaring her brother Roderick to death.

ANSWER: Usher [accept Roderick Usher or Madeline Usher; accept “The Fall of the House of Usher”]

<Editors, American Literature>

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Summary


Northern California	Main	Y	4	17.50	100%	50%	25%
Southern California	Main	Y	7	20.00	100%	86%	14%
Eastern Canada (1)	Main	Y	5	18.00	100%	60%	20%
Eastern Canada (2)	Main	Y	9	15.56	100%	56%	0%
Florida	Main	Y	4	20.00	100%	75%	25%
Great Lakes	Main	Y	11	20.91	91%	91%	27%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	9	18.89	100%	56%	33%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	12	17.50	92%	67%	17%
Midwest	Main	Y	9	21.11	100%	56%	56%
North	Main	Y	4	17.50	75%	75%	25%
Northeast	Main	Y	12	13.33	92%	42%	0%
Pacific	Main	Y	8	17.50	75%	50%	50%
South Central	Main	Y	7	15.71	86%	57%	14%
Southeast	Main	Y	13	18.46	92%	77%	15%
Upstate NY	Main	Y	5	16.00	100%	40%	20%

Data


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