Gustave Flaubert - 2025 ACF Winter

Question

Willa Cather described her real-life encounter with this author’s niece Caroline in the essay “A Chance Meeting.” For 10 points each:

[10e] Name this author whose narrative “Hérodias” is quoted by his niece in “A Chance Meeting.” Cather wrote “One knows it too well to know it well” of this author’s novel Madame Bovary.

ANSWER: Gustave Flaubert

[10m] Flaubert’s niece’s memoirs led to the discovery of two works by Flaubert, whose hiding this author called a “literary entombment to match the actual one.” This author wrote Flaubert’s Parrot and The Sense of an Ending.

ANSWER: Julian Barnes [or Julian Patrick Barnes]

[10h] Flaubert sometimes referred to his niece as “Loulou,” which is also the name of a parrot in this short story. In the opening of Flaubert’s Parrot, Geoffrey Braithwaite buys a student text of this story while in Rouen (“roo-AWN”).

ANSWER: “A Simple Heart” [or “Un Cœur Simple”; or “A Simple Soul”]

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Summary


Florida	Main	Y	13	11.54	92%	15%	8%
North	Main	Y	10	14.00	90%	40%	10%
Overflow	Main	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
Pacific Northwest	Main	Y	10	15.00	90%	40%	20%
Southeast	Main	Y	11	10.91	82%	18%	9%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	8	16.25	100%	50%	13%
Upstate NY	Main	Y	8	13.75	100%	25%	13%
2025 ACF Nationals	2025-08-09	Y	14	15.71	93%	57%	7%

Data


McGill A	Guelph A	10	0	0	10
McMaster C	Queen's A	10	0	0	10
Queen's B	McMaster B	10	0	0	10
Toronto A	Toronto B	10	10	10	30
Toronto C	McMaster A	10	0	0	10
Ottawa	Toronto D	10	10	0	20
Western Ontario	Toronto E	10	0	0	10
Toronto F	Toronto G	10	0	0	10
Carleton	Toronto H	10	0	0	10
McGill C	Toronto I	10	0	0	10
Toronto Metropolitan	Toronto J	10	0	0	10
Toronto K	McGill B	10	0	0	10
Waterloo	Guelph B	0	0	0	0
Missouri A	SIUE	10	10	0	20
Truman State	WashU B	10	0	0	10
William Woods	WashU D	10	0	0	10
Notre Dame D	Chicago A	0	0	0	0
Notre Dame A	Chicago D	10	10	0	20
Louisville B	Illinois A	10	10	0	20
Illinois C	Louisville A	10	10	0	20
UIC	Indiana A	10	0	0	10
Indiana B	Michigan B	10	0	0	10
Kentucky	Michigan D	10	0	0	10
Chicago B	Michigan C	10	0	10	20
Michigan A	Purdue B	10	10	10	30
Notre Dame B	Purdue C	10	0	0	10
George Mason A	Penn A	10	0	0	10
George Washington A	Catholic University	0	0	0	0
Maryland C	George Washington B	10	10	0	20
Johns Hopkins B	Maryland D	10	0	0	10
Maryland A	Johns Hopkins A	10	10	10	30
Georgetown B	Maryland B	10	10	0	20
NYU B	Notre Dame E	10	0	0	10
Georgetown A	Penn B	10	10	0	20
Johns Hopkins C	UMBC A	10	0	0	10
VCU A	George Mason B	10	0	0	10
MIT B	BU	10	0	0	10
Bowdoin B	BC B	0	0	0	0
Brandeis Clemenceau	Brown C	10	0	0	10
Brandeis Lloyd George	Brown B	0	0	0	0
Brandeis Wilson	Brandeis Orlando	10	10	0	20
Dartmouth	Cornell-UG	10	0	0	10
Harvard	Brown A	10	0	0	10
MIT A	Amherst A	10	10	10	30
Tufts B	Tufts A	10	0	0	10
Williams	Yale A	10	0	0	10
BC A	Yale B	10	0	0	10
Northwestern A	Alberta B	10	0	0	10
Arizona State B	Ohio	10	0	0	10
Northwestern C	Rose State	10	10	0	20
Texas A	Arizona State A	10	10	0	20
Texas B	McGill D	10	10	0	20
UTD B	Tulsa	10	0	0	10
UCO	Northwestern B	10	10	10	30
UTD A	Iowa	10	0	0	10
Alabama A	Alabama B	10	0	0	10
Auburn B	Huntsville A	10	0	0	10
Auburn A	Bruin A	10	10	10	30
Georgia Tech C	Georgia Tech A	10	0	0	10
Vanderbilt B	Georgia Tech B	10	0	0	10
Vanderbilt A	Georgia Tech D	10	10	0	20
Sewanee A	Huntsville B	10	0	0	10
UAB A	Mississippi State A	10	0	0	10
Bristol B	Imperial B	10	10	0	20
City St George's A	Sheffield B	10	10	0	20
Durham B	Imperial C	10	10	0	20
Cambridge A	Edinburgh B	10	0	0	10
Imperial A	Birmingham A	10	0	0	10
LSE A	Edinburgh A	10	10	10	30
Lancaster A	Cambridge C	10	0	0	10
LSE B	Manchester B	10	0	0	10
Manchester A	Oxford A	10	0	0	10
Oxford B	Durham A	10	10	0	20
Southampton A	Sheffield C	10	10	0	20
Cambridge D	Southampton B	0	0	0	0
Warwick A	Sheffield A	10	10	0	20
Bristol A	Warwick B	10	10	0	20