Carol Ann Duffy - 2025 ACF Winter

Question

In a poem by this author the speaker tells the reader she “made quite sure” a wolf spotted her for the sake of “poetry.” For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this poet whose speaker takes an axe to the wolf in “Little Red-Cap.” She included a poem in the same collection about Shakespeare’s wife who holds “him in the casket of my widow’s head.”

ANSWER: Carol Ann Duffy (The collection is The World’s Wife. The second poem is “Anne Hathaway.”)

[10m] Carol Ann Duffy was the first woman to occupy this position. In 2019, Simon Armitage succeeded her in this position.

ANSWER: British Poet Laureate [or Poet Laureate of the UK; accept Poet Laureate of England; prompt on Poet Laureate by asking “of which country?”]

[10e] Aside from writing poetry, Armitage also translated a middle English poem in which this character, not yet a member of King Arthur’s Roundtable, returns to finish a beheading game with the Green Knight started at Christmas.

ANSWER: Gawain [or Sir Gawain]

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Summary


California	Main	Y	4	22.50	100%	100%	25%
Canada	Main	Y	6	13.33	100%	33%	0%
Great Lakes	Main	Y	6	5.00	33%	17%	0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	7	14.29	86%	43%	14%
Midwest	Main	Y	10	15.00	90%	50%	10%
Northeast	Main	Y	5	16.00	100%	40%	20%
Overflow	Main	Y	4	17.50	100%	50%	25%
Pacific Northwest	Main	Y	10	15.00	90%	50%	10%
South Central	Main	Y	5	16.00	100%	60%	0%
Southeast	Main	Y	12	16.67	100%	50%	17%
UK	Main	Y	4	17.50	100%	50%	25%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	8	16.25	100%	50%	13%
Upstate NY	Main	Y	8	20.00	88%	88%	25%
2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley	04/19/2025	Y	1	10.00	100%	0%	0%

Data


Stanford A	Berkeley A	10	10	10	30
Berkeley E	Berkeley B	0	10	10	20
Berkeley D	Berkeley C	0	10	10	20
Stanford B	Stanford C	0	10	10	20
Claremont Scripps	Claremont Pitzer	0	0	10	10
UCLA A	USC	0	10	10	20
UCSD Two Running Violet V Forms	UCLA B	0	0	10	10
UCSD Vices and Virtues	UCLA C	0	10	10	20
UCLA D	UCSB	0	0	10	10
UCI	UCSD What Hath God Wrought	0	0	10	10
ERAU A	ERAU B	0	0	0	0
FSU	Melbourne A	0	0	0	0
UCF A	FIU	0	0	10	10
UCF B	UF A	0	0	10	10
UF B	UF E	0	10	0	10
Melbourne B	USF	0	0	0	0
CWRU D	Pitt B	0	0	10	10
Kenyon A	MSU B	0	0	0	0
MSU A	CWRU B	0	10	10	20
OSU A	OSU D	0	10	10	20
OSU B	CWRU A	0	0	10	10
OSU C	Pitt A	10	10	10	30
Pitt C	Kenyon B	0	0	10	10
South Carolina A	Clemson A	0	10	10	20
Clemson B	Liberty C	0	10	10	20
North Carolina A	Liberty A	10	10	10	30
James Madison	Liberty B	0	0	0	0
NC State	Roanoke	0	0	10	10
South Carolina B	Virginia B	0	0	10	10
Tennessee A	Virginia Tech A	0	10	10	20
Tusculum	Tennessee B	0	0	10	10
Virginia A	North Carolina B	0	10	10	20
North Carolina C	Virginia Tech B	0	0	10	10
Columbia A	Columbia C	10	10	10	30
Rutgers B	Lehigh A	0	0	10	10
Rutgers C	Vassar A	0	0	10	10
Swarthmore A	Lehigh B	0	0	10	10
Rowan A	Columbia B	0	10	10	20
Missouri A	WashU A	10	10	10	30
Missouri B	WashU B	0	0	10	10
WashU C	Truman State	0	0	10	10
WashU D	William Woods	0	10	10	20
Chicago B	UIC	0	0	10	10
Illinois A	Chicago C	0	10	10	20
Kentucky	Illinois B	0	10	10	20
Illinois C	Michigan A	0	0	10	10
Michigan C	Indiana A	0	0	0	0
Indiana B	Louisville B	0	0	10	10
Michigan B	Notre Dame C	10	10	10	30
Notre Dame D	Michigan D	0	0	10	10
Chicago A	Purdue A	0	10	10	20
Louisville A	Purdue B	0	10	10	20
Macalester B	Macalester A	0	10	10	20
Carleton	Minnesota A	0	10	10	20
St. Thomas	Iowa State	0	10	10	20
Wisconsin	Nebraska	0	0	10	10
BU	Brown C	0	0	10	10
Bowdoin A	BC B	0	0	10	10
Bowdoin B	Amherst B	0	0	10	10
Brandeis Clemenceau	MIT B	0	10	10	20
Tufts A	Brandeis Lloyd George	0	10	10	20
Brandeis Wilson	BC A	0	10	10	20
Amherst A	Brown A	10	10	10	30
Tufts B	Brown B	0	0	10	10
Williams	Cornell-UG	0	10	10	20
Harvard	MIT A	0	0	10	10
Yale A	Dartmouth	10	10	10	30
Brandeis Orlando	Yale B	0	0	10	10
Minnesota B	Minnesota C	0	0	10	10
Alberta	British Columbia C	0	0	10	10
Simon Fraser	British Columbia D	0	0	10	10
Washington A	Washington B	0	10	10	20
British Columbia A	British Columbia B	10	10	10	30
Iowa	Northwestern C	0	0	10	10
Alberta B	McGill D	0	10	10	20
Arizona State A	Northwestern A	10	10	10	30
Texas A	Northwestern B	0	10	10	20
UTD B	Ohio	0	0	10	10
Tulsa	Rose State	0	0	10	10
Texas B	UCO	0	10	10	20
UTD A	Arizona State B	0	0	10	10
Mississippi State A	Auburn B	0	10	0	10
Bruin A	Georgia Tech B	10	10	10	30
Georgia Tech C	Georgia Tech D	0	10	10	20
Alabama B	Huntsville B	0	10	10	20
Alabama A	Sewanee A	0	10	10	20
UAB A	Huntsville A	0	0	10	10
Auburn A	Vanderbilt B	0	10	10	20
Vanderbilt A	Georgia Tech A	10	10	10	30
RIT B	Cornell-DII	0	0	10	10