birthmark - 2025 ACF Winter

Question

Answer the following about E. D. E. N. Southworth’s The Hidden Hand, a best-selling 19th-century novel about Capitola Black, an orphan who is adopted by the rich benefactor Ira Warfield, for 10 points each.

[10m] The “hidden hand” is one of these features, which allows Capitola to inherit her father’s fortune. In a short story, Aylmer kills his wife when he attempts to remove this titular feature, which also takes the shape of a “crimson hand.”

ANSWER: birthmark [accept “The Birth-Mark”; accept freckle or mole]

[10h] Black Donald, a notorious bandit in The Hidden Hand, disguises himself as a member of this profession to sneak into Warfield’s house. R. J. Bowman has a heart attack in a short story titled for this profession.

ANSWER: traveling salesman [accept “Death of a Traveling Salesman”; accept peddler; prompt on smuggler; prompt on sailor by asking “what profession is Black Donald performing while dressed as a sailor?”]

[10e] Many of Southworth’s novels, including The Hidden Hand, were first serialized in The National Era, which also published this author’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin.

ANSWER: Harriet Beecher Stowe

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California	Main	Y	5	14.00	100%	40%	0%
Canada	Main	Y	6	13.33	100%	33%	0%
Florida	Main	Y	12	13.33	83%	42%	8%
Great Lakes	Main	Y	6	13.33	83%	50%	0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	6	15.00	100%	50%	0%
Midwest	Main	Y	10	18.00	100%	70%	10%
North	Main	Y	11	17.27	100%	64%	9%
Northeast	Main	Y	5	18.00	100%	80%	0%
Overflow	Main	Y	4	15.00	100%	50%	0%
Pacific Northwest	Main	Y	12	17.50	100%	67%	8%
South Central	Main	Y	5	18.00	80%	60%	40%
Southeast	Main	Y	12	15.83	100%	42%	17%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	8	17.50	100%	75%	0%
2025 ACF Nationals	2025-08-09	Y	14	15.71	79%	71%	7%
2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley	04/19/2025	Y	4	15.00	100%	50%	0%

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