“The Pardoner’s Tale” - 2025 ACF Fall

Question

This story is prefaced with the claim that “Greed is the root of all evil,” as told by a man who makes his living from selling fake relics. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this story that follows three friends on a quest to kill Death. The story concludes with the friends killing each other after discovering treasure beneath a tree.

ANSWER: “The Pardoner’s Tale”

[10m] In a frame story, the pardoner is prevented from fighting by a character with this profession who had earlier told a story about Arcite and Palamon. In another poem, two characters of this profession play a beheading game.

ANSWER: knight [accept The Knight’s Tale or Gawain and the Green Knight]

[10e] Both Gawain and the Green Knight and Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales were written in this form of English, which succeeded the Old English of Beowulf and preceded the Early Modern English of Shakespeare.

ANSWER: Middle English

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Southern California	Main	Y	7	12.86	100%	29%	0%
Eastern Canada (2)	Main	Y	9	12.22	89%	33%	0%
Great Lakes	Main	Y	12	18.33	100%	67%	17%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	6	16.67	100%	67%	0%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	12	13.33	100%	33%	0%
Midwest	Main	Y	9	18.89	100%	67%	22%
Northeast	Main	Y	12	15.83	100%	58%	0%
Pacific	Main	Y	9	13.33	100%	33%	0%
Southeast	Main	Y	12	15.83	100%	58%	0%
UK (North)	UK	Y	5	14.00	100%	40%	0%
UK (South)	UK	Y	8	12.50	100%	25%	0%
Upstate NY	Main	Y	5	16.00	100%	60%	0%

Data


UCSD A	Claremont B	0	0	10	10
Claremont A	UC Santa Barbara	0	10	10	20
UCLA F	UCLA A	0	0	10	10
UCLA C	UCLA D	0	0	10	10
Claremont C	UCLA E	0	0	10	10
UCLA B	UCSD B	0	10	10	20
USC A	UC Irvine	0	0	10	10
Guelph A	Waterloo B	0	0	10	10
Toronto C	McMaster A	0	0	10	10
Toronto A	Toronto D	0	0	10	10
Toronto B	Waterloo A	0	10	10	20
Toronto E	Waterloo C	0	10	10	20
Toronto F	Brock A	0	10	0	10
Toronto G	McMaster B	0	0	10	10
McMaster C	Toronto H	0	0	10	10
Queen's A	Toronto I	0	0	10	10
CWRU A	Michigan B	0	10	10	20
CWRU B	Michigan State A	10	10	10	30
Michigan A	Louisville A	0	10	10	20
Louisville B	Ohio State B	0	10	10	20
CWRU C	Louisville D	10	10	10	30
Ohio State A	Michigan C	0	10	10	20
Kentucky	Michigan D	0	0	10	10
Michigan State B	CWRU D	0	0	10	10
Ohio State D	Michigan State D	0	0	10	10
Pittsburgh	Ohio State C	0	10	10	20
Louisville C	WVU A	0	10	10	20
WVU B	Michigan State C	0	0	10	10
JMU B	Tusculum A	0	10	10	20
JMU A	Duke A	0	0	10	10
Liberty B	Liberty C	0	0	10	10
Virginia Tech C	UNC B	0	10	10	20
William & Mary B	Liberty A	0	10	10	20
VCU A	UNC D	0	10	10	20
Rutgers B	Columbia A	0	0	10	10
George Mason A	Maryland A	0	10	10	20
George Mason B	Vassar A	0	0	10	10
NYU C	George Mason C	0	0	10	10
Penn	Johns Hopkins	0	0	10	10
Lehigh B	Princeton	0	0	10	10
Maryland B	Maryland C	0	10	10	20
NYU B	Lehigh A	0	0	10	10
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Rowan	Rutgers C	0	0	10	10
Rutgers D	Stony Brook	0	10	10	20
Vassar B	Columbia B	0	0	10	10
Chicago B	William Woods University A	0	0	10	10
Illinois Blue	WashU Grizzlers	0	10	10	20
Illinois Urbana	Illinois Canada	0	0	10	10
Illinois Champaign	Iowa A	0	10	10	20
Illinois Orange	Rose-Hulman A	0	0	10	10
Chicago A	Indiana A	0	10	10	20
Indiana B	Iowa B	10	10	10	30
Purdue B	Purdue A	0	10	10	20
WashU Grolars	Purdue C	10	10	10	30
Williams A	Amherst A	0	10	10	20
Boston University A	Tufts B	0	0	10	10
Brandeis Mozart	Brown B	0	10	10	20
Tufts A	Dartmouth A	0	0	10	10
MIT A	Dartmouth B	0	10	10	20
Dartmouth C	MIT B	0	10	10	20
Amherst B	Southern Connecticut State University A	0	0	10	10
Tufts C	Boston College B	0	0	10	10
Brandeis Bach	Vermont A	0	0	10	10
Brown A	Vermont B	0	10	10	20
Brandeis Beethoven	Williams C	0	10	10	20
Alberta A	Washington Pink	0	10	10	20
Arizona State B	British Columbia C	0	0	10	10
British Columbia A	Washington Sockeye	0	0	10	10
British Columbia B	Washington State	0	0	10	10
Arizona State A	Texas	0	10	10	20
Washington Masu	Washington Atlantic	0	10	10	20
Washington Chinook	Alberta B	0	0	10	10
Washington Chum	Washington Steelhead	0	0	10	10
Washington Coho	Boise State	0	0	10	10
Williams B	Boston College A	0	10	10	20
Georgia Tech F	Auburn A	0	0	10	10
Georgia Tech B	Emory A	0	0	10	10
Georgia A	Auburn B	0	0	10	10
Clemson C	Georgia Tech D	0	0	10	10
Tennessee Tech	Georgia Tech E	0	10	10	20
Mississippi State A	Auburn C	0	10	10	20
Clemson B	Sewanne	0	0	10	10
Chipola College	South Carolina A	0	10	10	20
Clemson A	Tennessee A	0	10	10	20
Vanderbilt C	Vanderbilt B	0	10	10	20
Vanderbilt A	Georgia Tech A	0	10	10	20
Georgia Tech C	Alabama A	0	10	10	20
Durham A	Durham C	0	0	10	10
Edinburgh C	Edinburgh B	0	0	10	10
Edinburgh A	Edinburgh D	0	10	10	20
Sheffield A	Sheffield B	0	0	10	10
Durham B	York	0	10	10	20
Cambridge D	Birmingham	0	0	10	10
Bristol	Oxford	0	10	10	20
Cambridge A	Cambridge B	0	10	10	20
Imperial D	Imperial C	0	0	10	10
Cambridge E	LSE	0	0	10	10
Cardiff	Southampton	0	0	10	10
Warwick	Cambridge C	0	0	10	10
Imperial B	Imperial A	0	0	10	10
RIT A	Binghamton A	0	10	10	20
Binghamton B	Cornell D	0	0	10	10
Binghamton C	ESF	0	0	10	10
Cornell B	Cornell C	0	10	10	20
RIT B	Cornell A	0	10	10	20