In Memoriam A. H. H. - 2025 ACF Winter

Question

In The Nutmeg’s Curse, Amitav Ghosh writes that this poem “reinforced a belief in the absolute exceptionalism and supremacy of one kind of human – White, Western Man.” For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this poem which claims “at the last arose the man; / Who throve and branch’d from clime to clime, / The herald of a higher race” in Canto 118. This poem also describes how nature “shriek’d against his creed.”

ANSWER: In Memoriam A. H. H.

[10e] This author wrote about the advent of man in In Memoriam. He also wrote “The Charge of the Light Brigade.”

ANSWER: Alfred, Lord Tennyson

[10m] In In Memoriam, Tennyson writes that man must work “out the beast, / and let the ape and [this animal] die.” In a different poem, the narrator asks this animal “What the hammer? what the chain, / In what furnace was thy brain?”

ANSWER: tiger [accept “The Tyger”]

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Summary


California	Main	Y	5	20.00	100%	80%	20%
Canada	Main	Y	6	16.67	100%	67%	0%
Florida	Main	Y	12	13.33	83%	50%	0%
Great Lakes	Main	Y	6	11.67	83%	33%	0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	7	18.57	100%	71%	14%
Midwest	Main	Y	10	17.00	100%	70%	0%
North	Main	Y	10	17.00	90%	70%	10%
Northeast	Main	Y	5	18.00	100%	60%	20%
Overflow	Main	Y	4	17.50	100%	75%	0%
Overflow	Main	Y	1	20.00	100%	100%	0%
Pacific Northwest	Main	Y	12	17.50	92%	75%	8%
South Central	Main	Y	2	20.00	100%	100%	0%
Southeast	Main	Y	12	17.50	100%	67%	8%
UK	Main	Y	4	20.00	100%	100%	0%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	8	21.25	100%	88%	25%
Upstate NY	Main	Y	8	20.00	100%	88%	13%
2025 ACF Nationals	2025-08-09	Y	1	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley	04/19/2025	Y	4	10.00	75%	25%	0%

Data


Berkeley E	Berkeley B	0	10	0	10
Stanford A	Berkeley F	0	10	10	20
Stanford B	Berkeley C	0	10	10	20
Berkeley D	Stanford C	10	10	10	30
Berkeley A	UCSC	0	10	10	20
UCLA B	UCSB	0	10	10	20
Claremont Scripps	UCLA C	0	10	10	20
UCI	USC	0	10	10	20
UCSD Two Running Violet V Forms	UCLA D	0	10	0	10
UCSD Vices and Virtues	Claremont Pitzer	0	10	10	20
UCLA A	UCSD What Hath God Wrought	0	10	0	10
Queen's A	Guelph A	0	10	10	20
Toronto D	McGill C	0	10	0	10
McMaster A	Toronto F	0	10	10	20
Toronto C	Queen's B	0	10	0	10
Toronto A	Toronto E	0	10	10	20
Toronto G	Toronto H	0	10	0	10
Toronto I	Ottawa	0	10	0	10
Toronto J	McGill B	0	0	0	0
Carleton	Toronto K	0	10	10	20
McMaster B	Toronto Metropolitan	0	10	0	10
Western Ontario	Guelph B	0	0	10	10
McGill A	McMaster C	0	10	10	20
Melbourne A	ERAU A	0	0	10	10
FSU	ERAU B	0	10	0	10
UF A	UCF B	0	10	10	20
UF D	Melbourne B	0	10	0	10
UF E	UCF A	0	10	0	10
FIU	USF	0	10	0	10
CWRU B	MSU B	0	10	10	20
Pitt A	OSU B	10	10	10	30
OSU C	Kenyon A	0	10	0	10
CWRU D	OSU D	0	10	10	20
Pitt B	MSU A	0	10	0	10
CWRU A	Pitt C	0	10	10	20
OSU A	CWRU C	0	10	10	20
Liberty B	Clemson B	0	10	10	20
Clemson A	Tennessee B	0	10	10	20
Roanoke	Liberty A	0	10	10	20
Tennessee A	NC State	0	10	10	20
South Carolina A	North Carolina A	0	10	10	20
Virginia A	Tusculum	0	10	10	20
North Carolina C	Virginia B	0	10	0	10
North Carolina B	Virginia Tech A	0	10	10	20
Virginia Tech B	South Carolina B	0	10	0	10
James Madison	Liberty C	0	10	0	10
George Mason A	George Washington B	0	10	10	20
Georgetown B	George Mason C	0	10	0	10
NYU A	Georgetown A	10	10	0	20
NYU B	Maryland A	0	10	10	20
Maryland B	Notre Dame E	0	10	10	20
Penn A	Johns Hopkins A	0	10	10	20
Johns Hopkins C	Penn B	0	10	0	10
UMBC A	Catholic University	0	0	10	10
VCU A	Johns Hopkins B	0	10	10	20
George Washington A	Maryland D	0	10	10	20
Columbia A	Columbia B	10	10	10	30
Princeton A	Lehigh B	0	10	10	20
Rutgers B	Vassar A	0	10	0	10
Rowan A	Rutgers C	0	10	10	20
Missouri B	WashU C	0	10	10	20
WashU D	Missouri B	0	10	10	20
Truman State	WashU C	0	10	10	20
WashU B	WashU A	0	10	10	20
SIUE	William Woods	0	10	0	10
Swarthmore A	Lehigh A	0	10	0	10
Illinois C	Chicago A	0	10	10	20
Chicago B	Illinois A	0	10	10	20
Indiana A	Chicago C	0	10	10	20
Chicago D	Notre Dame D	0	0	0	0
Michigan C	Louisville B	0	10	0	10
Michigan A	Kentucky	10	10	10	30
Michigan D	Louisville A	0	10	10	20
Purdue A	Notre Dame A	0	10	10	20
Purdue B	Illinois B	0	10	10	20
Notre Dame C	Purdue C	0	10	10	20
UIC	Michigan B	0	10	10	20
Carleton	Iowa State	0	10	10	20
Macalester B	Minnesota A	0	10	10	20
Indiana B	Notre Dame B	0	10	0	10
Yale A	Amherst B	10	10	10	30
MIT A	Bowdoin B	0	10	10	20
Brandeis Lloyd George	Bowdoin A	0	10	10	20
Cornell-UG	Brandeis Orlando	0	10	10	20
Brandeis Wilson	Yale B	0	10	0	10
Brandeis Clemenceau	Brown A	0	10	10	20
BU	Brown B	0	10	0	10
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MIT B	Harvard	0	10	10	20
Dartmouth	Tufts B	0	10	10	20
Amherst A	Williams	0	10	10	20
British Columbia A	British Columbia C	0	10	10	20
British Columbia B	British Columbia D	0	10	10	20
Washington A	Alberta	0	10	10	20
Washington B	Simon Fraser	0	10	10	20
BC A	Tufts A	0	10	0	10
Alberta B	Texas B	0	10	10	20
Arizona State A	Ohio	10	10	10	30
Northwestern A	Iowa	10	10	10	30
UTD A	Northwestern C	0	10	10	20
Arizona State B	Rose State	0	10	0	10
Texas A	UCO	0	10	10	20
Northwestern B	Tulsa	0	10	10	20
McGill D	UTD B	0	10	10	20
Alabama A	Georgia Tech D	0	10	10	20
Auburn A	Georgia Tech C	10	10	10	30
Huntsville A	Alabama B	0	10	10	20
Georgia Tech B	Mississippi State A	0	10	10	20
Bruin A	UAB A	0	10	10	20
Vanderbilt A	Sewanee A	0	10	10	20
Vanderbilt B	Huntsville B	0	10	10	20
Georgia Tech A	Auburn B	0	10	0	10
Imperial A	Cambridge A	0	10	10	20
ESF	Binghamton B	0	10	0	10
Rochester	Syracuse	0	0	0	0
Binghamton A	RIT A	0	10	0	10
Cornell-DII	RIT B	0	10	10	20