Iranian Revolution of 1979 - 2025 ACF Winter

Question

The protagonist of one work cherishes a bread swan gifted by her Uncle Anoosh before his execution in this event. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this event which leads that protagonist’s parents to send her to school in Austria. A memoir by Azar Nafisi set during this event is titled for “Reading Lolita in” the capital of its central country.

ANSWER: Iranian Revolution of 1979 [or Islamic Revolution; or Enqelāb-e Eslāmī; prompt on 1979 Revolution]

[10e] Marjane Satrapi depicted herself as the protagonist upset by Anoosh’s death in her memoir in this form titled Persepolis. Art Spiegelman depicted Jews as mice and Germans as pigs in his memoir in this medium titled Maus.

ANSWER: graphic novels [or comic books; accept graphic memoirs]

[10h] Anoosh’s death causes Marjane to rethink her desire to be the last one of these people. “Pity the Nation” appears in a sequel titled for “The Garden of” one of these people, who tells 26 fables on subjects like love and beauty in an earlier collection.

ANSWER: prophets [accept The Prophet; accept The Garden of the Prophet] (The prose poetry collection is Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet, whose sequel is The Garden of the Prophet.)

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Summary


California	Main	Y	4	25.00	100%	100%	50%
Canada	Main	Y	6	20.00	83%	67%	50%
Great Lakes	Main	Y	4	17.50	100%	50%	25%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	6	20.00	100%	83%	17%
Midwest	Main	Y	10	17.00	80%	60%	30%
Northeast	Main	Y	5	18.00	100%	60%	20%
Overflow	Main	Y	4	20.00	100%	75%	25%
Pacific Northwest	Main	Y	10	21.00	100%	70%	40%
South Central	Main	Y	5	26.00	100%	100%	60%
Southeast	Main	Y	11	22.73	100%	73%	55%
UK	Main	Y	4	25.00	100%	100%	50%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	8	18.75	100%	63%	25%
Upstate NY	Main	Y	8	17.50	100%	50%	25%
2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley	04/19/2025	Y	1	30.00	100%	100%	100%

Data


Berkeley C	Berkeley D	10	10	10	30
Stanford A	Berkeley A	10	10	10	30
Berkeley B	Berkeley E	10	10	0	20
Stanford C	Stanford B	10	10	0	20
Claremont Pitzer	Claremont Scripps	0	10	10	20
UCLA A	USC	10	10	10	30
UCSD Two Running Violet V Forms	UCLA B	10	10	0	20
UCLA C	UCSD Vices and Virtues	10	10	10	30
UCLA D	UCSB	10	10	0	20
UCI	UCSD What Hath God Wrought	0	0	0	0
UCF A	FIU	10	10	0	20
UF A	UCF B	10	10	10	30
UF B	UF E	0	10	0	10
USF	Melbourne B	0	10	0	10
Pitt B	CWRU D	10	10	0	20
MSU A	CWRU B	10	10	0	20
OSU A	OSU D	10	10	0	20
OSU B	CWRU A	10	10	0	20
OSU C	Pitt A	10	10	10	30
Kenyon B	Pitt C	0	10	0	10
Tusculum	Tennessee B	0	10	0	10
Virginia A	North Carolina B	10	10	0	20
North Carolina C	Virginia Tech B	0	10	0	10
South Carolina A	Clemson A	10	10	0	20
Liberty C	Clemson B	0	0	0	0
North Carolina A	Liberty A	10	10	10	30
Liberty B	James Madison	0	0	0	0
NC State	Roanoke	10	10	10	30
Virginia B	South Carolina B	10	10	10	30
Tennessee A	Virginia Tech A	10	10	0	20
Columbia A	Columbia C	10	10	10	30
Rutgers B	Lehigh A	10	10	0	20
Rutgers C	Vassar A	0	10	0	10
Swarthmore A	Lehigh B	10	10	0	20
Rowan A	Columbia B	0	10	0	10
Missouri A	WashU A	10	10	0	20
Missouri B	WashU B	10	10	0	20
Truman State	WashU C	0	10	0	10
WashU D	William Woods	10	10	10	30
Kentucky	Illinois B	10	10	0	20
Chicago B	UIC	10	10	10	30
Illinois A	Chicago C	10	10	10	30
Illinois C	Michigan A	10	10	0	20
Michigan C	Indiana A	0	10	0	10
Louisville B	Indiana B	0	10	0	10
Michigan B	Notre Dame C	10	10	10	30
Michigan D	Notre Dame D	10	10	0	20
Purdue A	Chicago A	10	10	10	30
Louisville A	Purdue B	0	10	0	10
Carleton	Minnesota A	10	10	10	30
Macalester B	Macalester A	10	10	10	30
Minnesota B	Minnesota C	10	10	0	20
Wisconsin	Nebraska	10	10	10	30
Brown C	BU	10	10	10	30
Amherst B	Bowdoin B	10	10	0	20
MIT B	Brandeis Clemenceau	0	10	10	20
Tufts A	Brandeis Lloyd George	10	10	0	20
Brandeis Wilson	BC A	10	10	10	30
Brown A	Amherst A	0	10	10	20
Tufts B	Brown B	10	10	0	20
Williams	Cornell-UG	10	10	0	20
Harvard	MIT A	10	10	10	30
Dartmouth	Yale A	10	10	0	20
Brandeis Orlando	Yale B	0	10	10	20
Iowa State	St. Thomas	10	10	0	20
British Columbia B	British Columbia A	10	10	0	20
Alberta	British Columbia C	10	10	10	30
Washington A	Washington B	10	10	10	30
Simon Fraser	British Columbia D	10	10	0	20
Northwestern C	Iowa	10	10	0	20
McGill D	Alberta B	10	10	10	30
Northwestern A	Arizona State A	10	10	0	20
Northwestern B	Texas A	0	10	0	10
Ohio	UTD B	10	10	0	20
Rose State	Tulsa	0	10	0	10
Texas B	UCO	10	10	10	30
UTD A	Arizona State B	0	10	0	10
Georgia Tech A	Vanderbilt A	10	10	10	30
Auburn B	Mississippi State A	0	10	0	10
Georgia Tech C	Georgia Tech D	10	10	0	20
Alabama B	Huntsville B	0	10	0	10
Sewanee A	Alabama A	10	10	0	20
Huntsville A	UAB A	0	10	0	10
Auburn A	Vanderbilt B	10	10	10	30
Georgia Tech B	Bruin A	0	10	0	10
RIT B	Cornell-DII	10	10	10	30