Hamlet - 2025 ACF Winter - Buzzpoints App

Question

In an essay, one critic describes the “Problems” of this play, which he calls “the Mona Lisa of Literature.” For 10 points each:

[10e] Name this play about the title prince of Denmark who attempts to take revenge on his uncle Claudius. Jacques Lacan’s essay on “Interpretation of Desire in” this play begins by reducing Ophelia to “a piece of bait.”

ANSWER: Hamlet (by William Shakespeare)

[10m] This writer of “Hamlet and His Problems” became a major influence on New Criticism. This critic and poet set out his theory of “impersonal poetry” in the 1919 essay “Tradition and the Individual Talent.”

ANSWER: T. S. Eliot [or Thomas Stearns Eliot]

[10h] In “Hamlet and His Problems,” Eliot codified this concept, a “situation” or “chain of events” that creates a specific emotional response in the audience, and argued that Hamlet was an “artistic failure” for not doing so.

ANSWER: objective correlative

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California	Main	Y	5	14.00	100%	40%	0%
Canada	Main	Y	1	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Florida	Main	Y	12	15.00	100%	50%	0%
Great Lakes	Main	Y	6	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	7	20.00	100%	71%	29%
Midwest	Main	Y	8	16.25	100%	50%	13%
North	Main	Y	11	15.45	100%	36%	18%
Northeast	Main	Y	5	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Overflow	Main	Y	4	12.50	100%	25%	0%
South Central	Main	Y	5	14.00	100%	40%	0%
Southeast	Main	Y	12	14.17	100%	42%	0%
UK	Main	Y	4	12.50	100%	25%	0%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	8	16.25	100%	50%	13%
Upstate NY	Main	Y	8	17.50	100%	63%	13%
2025 ACF Nationals	2025-08-09	Y	13	13.85	100%	31%	8%
2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley	04/19/2025	Y	4	12.50	100%	25%	0%

Data


Stanford C	Berkeley C	10	0	0	10
Berkeley D	Berkeley F	10	10	0	20
Stanford B	Berkeley B	10	0	0	10
Stanford A	UCSC	10	10	0	20
Claremont Scripps	UCSD Vices and Virtues	10	0	0	10
Ottawa	Guelph B	10	10	0	20
Queen's B	McGill B	10	0	0	10
McMaster C	McGill C	10	0	0	10
Toronto B	McMaster A	10	10	0	20
Queen's A	Toronto K	10	0	0	10
Toronto A	Waterloo	10	10	0	20
Guelph A	Toronto F	10	10	0	20
Toronto D	Toronto G	10	0	0	10
Toronto H	Toronto E	10	10	0	20
Toronto I	McMaster B	10	0	0	10
McGill A	Toronto J	10	0	0	10
Carleton	Toronto Metropolitan	10	10	0	20
Berkeley E	Berkeley A	10	0	0	10
FSU	USF	10	0	0	10
UCF B	FIU	10	0	0	10
UF A	UF B	10	0	0	10
ERAU A	UF D	10	0	0	10
UCF A	UF E	10	0	0	10
CWRU A	Pitt B	10	10	0	20
CWRU B	Kenyon B	10	0	10	20
OSU C	CWRU C	10	10	0	20
MSU A	Pitt C	10	10	0	20
Pitt A	MSU B	10	10	10	30
Kenyon A	OSU A	10	0	0	10
OSU D	OSU B	10	10	0	20
Melbourne B	Melbourne A	10	0	0	10
North Carolina A	Clemson B	10	10	0	20
North Carolina C	Liberty A	10	10	0	20
Liberty B	NC State	10	0	0	10
North Carolina B	Virginia B	10	10	0	20
Clemson A	Roanoke	10	0	0	10
James Madison	Tennessee B	10	0	0	10
Tusculum	Tennessee A	10	0	0	10
Virginia A	South Carolina B	10	10	10	30
George Washington A	George Mason A	10	0	0	10
Penn B	George Washington B	10	0	0	10
Georgetown B	UMBC A	10	10	10	30
Johns Hopkins A	Georgetown A	10	10	0	20
Johns Hopkins C	Johns Hopkins B	10	0	0	10
Maryland A	NYU A	10	10	10	30
Maryland B	George Mason C	10	10	0	20
George Mason B	Maryland C	10	0	0	10
NYU B	Catholic University	10	0	0	10
Notre Dame E	Maryland D	10	0	0	10
Penn A	VCU A	10	0	0	10
Columbia B	Vassar A	10	0	0	10
Rutgers B	Lehigh B	10	0	0	10
Columbia C	Rowan A	10	0	0	10
Lehigh A	Rutgers C	10	0	0	10
Swarthmore A	Princeton A	10	0	0	10
WashU B	Missouri B	10	0	0	10
Missouri A	WashU D	10	0	0	10
WashU A	Truman State	10	10	0	20
Macalester B	Minnesota C	10	10	0	20
Minnesota A	Iowa State	10	0	0	10
Minnesota B	Carleton	10	0	0	10
Macalester A	Nebraska	10	10	0	20
St. Thomas	Wisconsin	10	0	0	10
Amherst B	Brandeis Orlando	10	0	0	10
BC A	Bowdoin B	10	10	0	20
Tufts B	BC B	10	0	0	10
Yale A	BU	10	0	0	10
Cornell-UG	Brandeis Clemenceau	10	10	0	20
Brandeis Wilson	Bowdoin A	10	10	0	20
Brown C	Dartmouth	10	10	0	20
Harvard	Amherst A	10	10	0	20
Brown A	MIT A	10	0	0	10
Brown B	Tufts A	10	0	0	10
MIT B	Williams	10	0	0	10
Brandeis Lloyd George	Yale B	10	0	0	10
WashU C	William Woods	10	0	0	10
British Columbia D	Washington B	10	10	0	20
British Columbia A	Alberta	10	0	0	10
British Columbia C	British Columbia B	10	0	0	10
Simon Fraser	Washington A	10	0	0	10
Alberta B	Northwestern C	10	0	0	10
Tulsa	Arizona State A	10	0	0	10
Iowa	Arizona State B	10	10	0	20
Ohio	Northwestern B	10	10	0	20
Northwestern A	Rose State	10	10	10	30
Texas A	UTD B	10	10	0	20
UTD A	Texas B	10	0	0	10
UCO	McGill D	10	0	0	10
Auburn A	Alabama B	10	10	10	30
Alabama A	Auburn B	10	10	0	20
Huntsville A	Mississippi State A	10	0	0	10
Georgia Tech A	Huntsville B	10	10	0	20
Vanderbilt B	UAB A	10	10	0	20
Georgia Tech B	Vanderbilt A	10	0	0	10
Sewanee A	Georgia Tech C	10	0	0	10
Bruin A	Georgia Tech D	10	10	0	20
LSE A	Birmingham A	10	10	0	20
Cambridge D	Bristol B	10	0	0	10
Bristol A	Cambridge A	10	0	0	10
Oxford A	Cambridge C	10	0	0	10
Durham B	LSE B	10	0	0	10
Southampton A	Edinburgh A	10	10	0	20
Imperial A	Sheffield A	10	0	0	10
City St George's A	Imperial C	10	0	0	10
Warwick A	Manchester A	10	10	0	20
Oxford B	Edinburgh B	10	0	0	10
Durham A	Sheffield B	10	10	10	30
Southampton B	Lancaster A	10	0	0	10
Warwick B	Cambridge B	10	0	0	10
Cornell-DII	Binghamton A	10	0	0	10
RIT B	RIT A	10	10	0	20
Syracuse	Rochester	10	0	0	10
ESF	Binghamton B	10	0	0	10