Adam Bede - 2025 ACF Winter

Question

This novel’s author was inspired to write “my Aunt’s story” after hearing her recount a story of a woman who confessed to murdering her child. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this novel in which the Methodist preacher Dinah Morris was inspired by its author’s aunt. In this novel, Dinah’s cousin Hetty Sorrel mothers a child with Arthur Donnithorne.

ANSWER: Adam Bede

[10e] Adam Bede is by this author who wrote about Edward Casaubon forbidding Dorothea Brooke from remarrying after his death in Middlemarch.

ANSWER: George Eliot [or Mary Ann Evans]

[10h] Eliot defended this French author of A Winter in Majorca in a letter, writing that although “I should never dream of going to her [this author’s] writings as a moral code… it is given to her to delineate human passion and its results.”

ANSWER: George Sand [or Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin]

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Canada	Main	Y	6	21.67	100%	17%	100%
Florida	Main	Y	7	17.14	86%	29%	57%
Great Lakes	Main	Y	3	13.33	100%	0%	33%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	6	13.33	100%	0%	33%
Midwest	Main	Y	8	10.00	63%	13%	25%
North	Main	Y	8	16.25	100%	13%	50%
Northeast	Main	Y	4	12.50	100%	0%	25%
Overflow	Main	Y	3	13.33	100%	0%	33%
Pacific Northwest	Main	Y	10	15.00	90%	10%	50%
South Central	Main	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Southeast	Main	Y	9	16.67	100%	11%	56%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	6	20.00	100%	33%	67%
2025 ACF Nationals	2025-08-09	Y	14	13.57	86%	0%	50%
2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley	04/19/2025	Y	2	5.00	50%	0%	0%

Data


Berkeley C	Berkeley A	0	10	0	10
Berkeley E	Stanford A	10	10	10	30
Berkeley D	Stanford B	0	10	10	20
Stanford C	Berkeley F	0	10	10	20
Berkeley B	UCSC	10	10	10	30
Claremont Pitzer	UCI	0	10	10	20
UCLA A	UCLA C	0	10	10	20
UCLA B	UCLA D	0	10	10	20
UCSB	UCSD Two Running Violet V Forms	0	10	10	20
USC	UCSD Vices and Virtues	0	10	10	20
Claremont Scripps	UCSD What Hath God Wrought	10	10	10	30
Ottawa	McGill A	0	10	10	20
McGill C	Carleton	0	10	0	10
McGill B	Queen's A	0	0	0	0
Toronto A	McMaster A	10	10	10	30
Toronto B	Toronto C	10	10	10	30
Toronto H	Toronto I	0	10	10	20
Toronto K	McMaster C	0	10	0	10
UCF A	FSU	0	10	10	20
UF A	UF C	0	10	0	10
UF E	UF B	0	10	0	10
OSU C	CWRU A	0	10	10	20
CWRU B	Pitt A	0	10	0	10
MSU B	CWRU D	0	10	0	10
CWRU C	MSU A	0	10	0	10
Kenyon B	OSU D	0	10	0	10
OSU A	Pitt B	0	10	10	20
Clemson A	Liberty A	0	0	0	0
Virginia B	Liberty C	0	10	0	10
Tennessee B	North Carolina B	0	0	0	0
North Carolina C	Roanoke	0	10	0	10
South Carolina A	South Carolina B	0	10	0	10
Tennessee A	Liberty B	0	10	10	20
Virginia A	North Carolina A	10	10	10	30
Clemson B	Virginia Tech B	0	0	0	0
Johns Hopkins C	George Washington B	0	10	0	10
Penn A	Maryland A	0	10	0	10
Maryland B	Penn B	0	10	10	20
Maryland C	Johns Hopkins A	10	10	0	20
NYU A	George Mason B	0	10	10	20
NYU B	George Mason A	0	10	10	20
Notre Dame E	Georgetown B	0	10	0	10
Georgetown A	VCU A	0	10	10	20
Columbia B	Lehigh B	0	10	0	10
Princeton A	Rutgers C	0	10	0	10
Swarthmore A	Rutgers B	0	10	0	10
Columbia A	Vassar A	0	10	10	20
WashU B	SIUE	0	10	0	10
Kentucky	UIC	0	10	10	20
WashU A	Missouri A	0	10	10	20
WashU C	WashU D	0	10	0	10
Chicago A	Chicago B	0	10	0	10
Chicago C	Notre Dame A	0	10	0	10
Chicago D	Louisville B	0	0	0	0
Illinois C	Illinois A	0	10	10	20
Michigan A	Indiana A	0	10	10	20
Illinois B	Michigan C	0	10	0	10
Michigan D	Purdue C	0	10	0	10
Louisville A	Notre Dame B	10	10	10	30
Purdue A	Michigan B	0	10	10	20
Carleton	Macalester A	0	10	0	10
St. Thomas	Macalester B	0	10	0	10
Brown A	Amherst B	0	10	10	20
Brandeis Lloyd George	Amherst A	0	10	0	10
Brown B	Brandeis Orlando	0	10	0	10
Dartmouth	Harvard	0	10	0	10
MIT B	Brandeis Wilson	0	10	0	10
Yale A	Tufts A	10	10	10	30
Tufts B	Yale B	0	10	10	20
Brown C	Williams	0	10	10	20
MIT A	Cornell-UG	0	10	10	20
Ohio	Alberta B	0	10	0	10
Northwestern A	McGill D	10	10	10	30
Texas B	Arizona State A	0	10	10	20
UTD A	Northwestern B	0	10	0	10
Iowa	UTD B	0	10	10	20
Bristol B	Edinburgh A	0	10	0	10
Cambridge A	LSE B	0	10	10	20
Cambridge C	Imperial B	0	10	0	10
Cambridge D	Durham A	0	10	0	10
Birmingham A	City St George's A	0	10	10	20
Edinburgh B	Bristol A	0	10	10	20
Imperial C	Southampton A	0	0	0	0
Lancaster A	LSE A	0	0	0	0
Sheffield C	Manchester A	0	10	0	10
Warwick B	Manchester B	0	10	10	20
Oxford A	Durham B	0	10	10	20
Sheffield A	Oxford B	0	10	10	20
Cambridge B	Sheffield B	0	10	10	20
Warwick A	Southampton B	0	10	0	10
Texas A	Rose State	10	10	10	30
Cornell-DII	Binghamton A	0	0	0	0
RIT A	RIT B	0	10	0	10