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Question

In the prologue to an autobiographical novel titled for a “Report” to this country, an author describes God telling him to “Reach what you cannot!” For 10 points each:

[10m] What country is the setting of a novel in which the narrator sleeps in a hut owned by Madame Hortense and tries to re-open a lignite mine?

ANSWER: Greece [or Hellenic Republic; or Elliniki Dimokratia; or Ellas; or Ellada; accept Report to Greco] (The novel in the last sentence is Zorba the Greek.)

[10h] In Report to Greco, Nikos Kazantzakis describes his father, who had this first name. Kazantzakis’s father may have inspired a novel in which a “Captain” with this first name uses the slogan “Freedom or death!”

ANSWER: Michalis [accept Michalis Kazantzakis; accept Michael or Michales or Captain Michalis]

[10e] Nikos Kazantzakis called this figure one of his four “decisive steps” in Report to Greco. Kazantzakis wrote a “Modern Sequel” to an epic about this figure in which he returns to Ithaca after the Trojan War.

ANSWER: Odysseus [or Ulysses] (The Kazantzakis epic is The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel.)

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Summary


California	Main	Y	5	18.00	100%	60%	20%
Canada	Main	Y	6	13.33	100%	33%	0%
Great Lakes	Main	Y	6	11.67	100%	17%	0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	7	11.43	100%	14%	0%
Midwest	Main	Y	10	11.00	90%	20%	0%
North	Main	Y	10	12.00	100%	20%	0%
Northeast	Main	Y	5	12.00	100%	20%	0%
Pacific Northwest	Main	Y	9	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Pacific Northwest	Main	Y	1	10.00	100%	0%	0%
South Central	Main	Y	5	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Southeast	Main	Y	12	15.00	100%	33%	17%
UK	Main	Y	4	17.50	100%	50%	25%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	8	12.50	100%	25%	0%
Upstate NY	Main	Y	8	13.75	100%	38%	0%
2025 ACF Nationals	2025-08-09	Y	11	11.82	100%	9%	9%
2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley	04/19/2025	Y	4	7.50	75%	0%	0%

Data


Berkeley A	Berkeley D	0	0	10	10
Berkeley E	Stanford C	10	10	10	30
Berkeley C	Berkeley F	0	0	10	10
Berkeley B	Stanford A	10	0	10	20
Stanford B	UCSC	10	0	10	20
UCI	UCLA D	0	0	10	10
UCSD Two Running Violet V Forms	Claremont Scripps	0	0	10	10
UCLA A	UCSB	10	0	10	20
UCLA B	UCSD Vices and Virtues	10	0	10	20
UCSD What Hath God Wrought	UCLA C	0	0	10	10
Claremont Pitzer	USC	0	0	10	10
ERAU B	UF B	0	0	10	10
FIU	Melbourne A	10	0	10	20
Melbourne B	UF E	0	0	10	10
UF C	ERAU A	0	0	10	10
UF D	FSU	0	0	10	10
UF A	USF	0	0	10	10
MSU A	CWRU A	0	0	10	10
CWRU B	OSU D	0	0	10	10
CWRU C	Kenyon A	0	0	10	10
CWRU D	Kenyon B	0	0	10	10
OSU B	MSU B	10	0	10	20
OSU A	OSU C	0	0	10	10
Pitt B	Pitt C	0	0	10	10
Tennessee A	Clemson B	0	0	10	10
Tennessee B	Liberty A	0	0	0	0
Liberty C	North Carolina C	0	0	10	10
North Carolina B	James Madison	0	0	10	10
Roanoke	Virginia B	0	0	10	10
South Carolina B	North Carolina A	0	0	10	10
South Carolina A	Tusculum	10	0	10	20
Virginia A	NC State	10	0	10	20
Clemson A	Virginia Tech A	0	0	10	10
Virginia Tech B	Liberty B	0	0	10	10
George Mason B	Georgetown A	0	0	10	10
Georgetown B	Maryland C	10	0	10	20
Johns Hopkins C	George Washington A	0	0	10	10
George Mason C	Maryland A	0	0	10	10
Maryland B	Penn A	0	0	10	10
Catholic University	NYU A	0	0	10	10
NYU B	George Washington B	0	0	10	10
Johns Hopkins A	Notre Dame E	10	0	10	20
Maryland D	Penn B	0	0	10	10
VCU A	UMBC A	0	0	10	10
Princeton A	Columbia A	10	0	10	20
Columbia C	Swarthmore A	0	0	10	10
Lehigh A	Vassar A	0	0	10	10
Rowan A	Lehigh B	0	0	10	10
Columbia B	Rutgers B	0	0	10	10
Michigan A	Chicago D	0	0	10	10
Purdue C	Indiana A	0	0	10	10
Indiana B	Illinois A	0	0	10	10
Michigan B	Louisville B	0	0	10	10
Chicago A	Michigan D	0	0	10	10
UIC	Notre Dame B	0	0	10	10
Kentucky	Notre Dame D	0	0	10	10
Illinois B	Purdue A	0	0	10	10
Purdue B	Notre Dame A	0	0	10	10
Chicago C	Notre Dame C	0	0	10	10
Carleton	Minnesota C	0	0	10	10
Minnesota A	Macalester A	0	0	10	10
Iowa State	Macalester B	0	0	10	10
Nebraska	St. Thomas	0	0	10	10
Minnesota B	Wisconsin	0	0	10	10
BC A	Brown A	10	0	10	20
Brandeis Lloyd George	BC B	0	0	10	10
BU	Brandeis Orlando	0	0	10	10
Bowdoin B	Cornell-UG	0	0	10	10
Yale A	Brandeis Clemenceau	10	10	10	30
Amherst A	Brown C	10	0	10	20
Brown B	MIT A	0	0	10	10
MIT B	Dartmouth	0	0	10	10
Tufts A	Amherst B	0	0	10	10
Tufts B	Brandeis Wilson	0	0	10	10
Williams	Bowdoin A	0	0	10	10
Harvard	Yale B	10	10	10	30
Washington B	British Columbia A	10	10	10	30
Washington A	British Columbia D	10	0	10	20
Simon Fraser	British Columbia C	0	0	10	10
British Columbia B	Alberta	0	0	10	10
UTD A	Alberta B	0	0	10	10
Northwestern B	Arizona State A	0	0	10	10
Northwestern A	Arizona State B	10	0	10	20
Tulsa	Ohio	0	0	10	10
Iowa	Rose State	0	0	10	10
Texas A	McGill D	10	0	10	20
Northwestern C	Texas B	0	0	10	10
UCO	UTD B	0	0	10	10
Georgia Tech A	Alabama A	10	0	10	20
Georgia Tech B	Auburn A	0	0	10	10
Georgia Tech C	Alabama B	0	0	10	10
Vanderbilt B	Georgia Tech D	0	0	10	10
Vanderbilt A	Huntsville A	10	0	10	20
Bruin A	Huntsville B	10	0	10	20
Mississippi State A	Sewanee A	0	0	10	10
UAB A	Auburn B	0	0	10	10
Sheffield B	Birmingham A	0	0	10	10
Imperial A	Cambridge B	0	0	10	10
Cambridge C	LSE A	0	0	10	10
Durham B	Sheffield C	0	0	10	10
Warwick B	Edinburgh B	0	0	10	10
Edinburgh A	Imperial B	0	0	10	10
Bristol A	LSE B	10	0	10	20
Bristol B	Lancaster A	0	0	10	10
Manchester A	Southampton A	0	0	10	10
Cambridge A	Manchester B	0	0	10	10
Imperial C	Oxford A	0	10	10	20
ESF	Cornell-DII	0	0	10	10
RIT A	Rochester	0	0	10	10
Binghamton B	RIT B	0	0	0	0
Binghamton A	Syracuse	0	0	10	10