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Question

During one of her many spells in a psychiatric hospital, Zelda Fitzgerald learned a new language to translate a poem set in this place into English. For 10 points each:

[10m] Identify this place, the setting of a poem in which the speaker describes the “hero unmoved, leaning on his rapier.” The speaker says “my life was one long party” in an extended poem titled for a “Season” in this place.

ANSWER: hell [or enfer; accept A Season in Hell or Une saison en enfer; accept “Don Juan in Hell” or “Don Juan aux enfers”]

[10e] The author of A Season in Hell, Arthur Rimbaud (“ram-BO”), called this author “the king of poets, a true God.” This author of the poem “Don Juan in Hell” wrote Les Fleurs du Mal.

ANSWER: Charles Baudelaire [or Charles Pierre Baudelaire]

[10h] English or original-language term acceptable. Rimbaud explored his relationship with Paul Verlaine in two sections of A Season In Hell titled for this word, which are subtitled for the “alchemy of words” and an “infernal bridegroom.”

ANSWER: Delirium [or Délires; accept Delirium I: The Foolish Virgin – The Infernal Spouse or Delirium II: Alchemy of the Word; accept Délires I: Vierge folle – L’Époux infernal or Délires II: Alchimie du verbe]

<Editors, European Literature>

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Summary


California	Main	Y	4	20.00	100%	100%	0%
Canada	Main	Y	5	24.00	100%	100%	40%
Florida	Main	Y	9	16.67	100%	56%	11%
Great Lakes	Main	Y	3	10.00	67%	33%	0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	5	20.00	100%	80%	20%
Midwest	Main	Y	7	15.71	86%	71%	0%
North	Main	Y	7	17.14	100%	71%	0%
Northeast	Main	Y	3	13.33	67%	67%	0%
Overflow	Main	Y	3	16.67	67%	100%	0%
Pacific Northwest	Main	Y	10	14.00	80%	60%	0%
South Central	Main	Y	2	20.00	100%	100%	0%
Southeast	Main	Y	9	16.67	78%	67%	22%
UK	Main	Y	3	16.67	67%	100%	0%
Upstate NY	Main	Y	7	20.00	86%	86%	29%
2025 ACF Nationals	2025-08-09	Y	10	19.00	100%	80%	10%
2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley	04/19/2025	Y	2	5.00	50%	0%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley	04/19/2025	Y	1	0.00	0%	0%	0%

Data


Berkeley C	Berkeley D	10	10	0	20
Berkeley B	Berkeley A	10	10	0	20
Stanford A	Stanford B	10	10	0	20
UCLA B	UCSD What Hath God Wrought	10	10	0	20
UCLA D	UCLA C	10	10	10	30
UCSB	Claremont Pitzer	10	10	0	20
UCSD Two Running Violet V Forms	USC	10	10	0	20
UCLA A	UCI	10	10	10	30
Berkeley E	Berkeley F	10	10	0	20
Carleton	McMaster C	10	10	0	20
Guelph A	Toronto C	10	10	0	20
McGill A	McMaster A	0	10	0	10
McGill C	Toronto K	0	10	0	10
Toronto A	Ottawa	10	10	0	20
Toronto B	Toronto D	10	10	10	30
Toronto Metropolitan	Toronto F	10	10	0	20
McGill B	Toronto I	0	10	0	10
Toronto G	Toronto J	0	10	0	10
CWRU A	OSU D	10	10	0	20
Pitt B	MSU B	0	10	0	10
Pitt A	OSU A	10	10	0	20
MSU A	OSU B	10	10	0	20
OSU C	CWRU B	10	10	10	30
FSU	UF E	0	0	0	0
UCF A	Melbourne B	10	10	0	20
UF B	UF D	0	10	0	10
Clemson A	Virginia B	0	10	0	10
Virginia Tech A	Liberty C	10	10	0	20
South Carolina B	NC State	0	0	0	0
North Carolina A	Liberty B	10	10	0	20
North Carolina C	North Carolina B	10	10	0	20
Virginia Tech B	South Carolina A	10	10	0	20
Tennessee A	Virginia A	10	10	0	20
George Mason A	Maryland D	10	10	0	20
Penn A	George Mason B	0	10	0	10
Georgetown B	Catholic University	0	10	0	10
Maryland A	Georgetown A	10	10	0	20
Maryland B	Johns Hopkins C	10	10	0	20
NYU B	UMBC A	10	10	0	20
Johns Hopkins A	NYU A	10	10	0	20
Princeton A	Columbia B	10	10	0	20
Lehigh A	Columbia A	0	0	0	0
Swarthmore A	Rutgers C	10	10	0	20
William Woods	WashU A	10	0	0	10
Missouri A	WashU B	10	10	0	20
WashU C	SIUE	10	10	0	20
Michigan B	Chicago A	10	10	0	20
Notre Dame C	Chicago D	10	10	0	20
Chicago B	Purdue A	10	10	0	20
Kentucky	Chicago C	0	10	0	10
Indiana A	Illinois C	0	10	0	10
Michigan A	Illinois A	10	10	0	20
Michigan C	Louisville A	10	0	0	10
Michigan D	Indiana B	0	10	0	10
Illinois B	Notre Dame B	10	0	0	10
Notre Dame D	Purdue C	0	10	0	10
Macalester B	Iowa State	10	10	0	20
Carleton	Minnesota A	10	10	0	20
Brown B	Amherst B	10	10	0	20
BC B	Brandeis Wilson	0	10	0	10
Brown A	BU	10	10	0	20
MIT A	Brandeis Clemenceau	10	10	10	30
Brown C	Harvard	10	10	10	30
MIT B	Amherst A	0	0	0	0
Brandeis Lloyd George	Tufts B	0	0	0	0
Dartmouth	Williams	10	10	0	20
Yale A	Cornell-UG	10	10	0	20
British Columbia A	British Columbia D	10	10	0	20
Simon Fraser	Washington A	10	10	0	20
British Columbia C	British Columbia B	10	0	0	10
Auburn A	Vanderbilt A	10	10	10	30
Bruin A	Alabama A	10	10	10	30
Mississippi State A	Alabama B	0	0	0	0
Georgia Tech B	Sewanee A	10	10	0	20
Georgia Tech D	Georgia Tech A	10	10	0	20
Georgia Tech C	Huntsville A	10	10	0	20
Vanderbilt B	Auburn B	10	10	0	20
Birmingham A	Cambridge B	10	10	0	20
LSE A	Bristol B	10	10	10	30
Edinburgh A	Cambridge C	10	10	0	20
Cambridge D	Sheffield A	0	10	0	10
Imperial A	City St George's A	10	10	0	20
Binghamton B	Cornell-DII	0	0	0	0
Rochester	Binghamton A	0	10	0	10
ESF	RIT B	0	0	0	0
Durham A	Southampton B	10	10	0	20
Manchester A	Imperial C	10	10	0	20
Sheffield C	Oxford A	0	10	0	10
Southampton A	Durham B	10	10	0	20
Warwick A	Oxford B	10	10	0	20