iron mills - 2025 ACF Winter

Question

One of these places is described as “a city of fires, that burned hot and fiercely in the night” in a short story based on its author’s hometown of Wheeling, West Virginia. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this location where Hugh Wolfe sculpts a figure of a woman with “tense, rigid muscles” in a short story by Rebecca Harding Davis.

ANSWER: iron mills [or factories; or factory; or ironworks; accept “Life in the Iron Mills”; prompt on workplaces or businesses]

[10m] This other author wrote a diptych (“DIP-tick”) about a “seedsman” who travels between the “Temple Bar” of the titular lawyers and a paper factory. He also wrote a novella about a slave revolt led by Babo aboard the San Dominick.

ANSWER: Herman Melville (The stories are “The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids” and Benito Cereno.)

[10e] Melville began writing short fiction after the commercial failure of this novel about Ahab’s hunt for a giant white whale that begins with the line “Call me Ishmael.”

ANSWER: Moby Dick

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Canada	Main	Y	6	18.33	100%	83%	0%
Florida	Main	Y	12	11.67	100%	8%	8%
Great Lakes	Main	Y	7	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	7	14.29	100%	29%	14%
Midwest	Main	Y	10	17.00	100%	70%	0%
North	Main	Y	11	14.55	100%	46%	0%
Northeast	Main	Y	5	18.00	100%	80%	0%
Overflow	Main	Y	4	15.00	100%	25%	25%
South Central	Main	Y	5	14.00	100%	40%	0%
Southeast	Main	Y	12	12.50	100%	17%	8%
UK	Main	Y	4	20.00	100%	100%	0%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	8	18.75	100%	75%	13%
2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley	04/19/2025	Y	4	15.00	100%	50%	0%

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