lumberjacks - 2025 ACF Winter

Question

“Fearsome critters” are said to have inhabited lands around places for people with this occupation in the region surrounding the Great Lakes. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this profession of a person who married a giant woman and had a daughter nicknamed Tiny.

ANSWER: lumberjacks [accept equivalents like loggers or woodsmen]

[10e] This American folk hero fathered Tiny. This lumberjack allegedly created the Grand Canyon by dragging his axe and traveled with Babe the Blue Ox.

ANSWER: Paul Bunyan [prompt on Paul]

[10h] The Ojibwe culture hero Nanabozho defeats Paul Bunyan in a fight by slapping him with one of these objects, causing him to fall and create Minnesota’s Red Lake. A legendary “fur-bearing” one of these objects appears in the folklore of both Iceland and North America.

ANSWER: fish [accept walleyes; accept fur-bearing trouts]

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Summary


Florida	Main	Y	13	21.54	92%	77%	46%
North	Main	Y	10	25.00	100%	80%	70%
Overflow	Main	Y	3	20.00	100%	67%	33%
Pacific Northwest	Main	Y	10	20.00	90%	70%	40%
Southeast	Main	Y	11	17.27	100%	46%	27%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	8	15.00	100%	50%	0%
Upstate NY	Main	Y	8	18.75	100%	63%	25%
2025 ACF Nationals	2025-08-09	Y	14	20.71	71%	57%	79%

Data


Guelph A	McGill A	10	10	0	20
Queen's A	McMaster C	10	10	0	20
McMaster B	Queen's B	0	10	0	10
Toronto A	Toronto B	10	10	0	20
Ottawa	Toronto D	10	10	0	20
Toronto E	Western Ontario	10	0	10	20
Toronto F	Toronto G	0	10	10	20
Carleton	Toronto H	10	10	0	20
McGill C	Toronto I	0	10	0	10
Toronto Metropolitan	Toronto J	10	10	10	30
McGill B	Toronto K	10	10	10	30
Guelph B	Waterloo	10	10	10	30
Toronto C	McMaster A	10	10	10	30
George Mason A	Penn A	10	10	10	30
Maryland C	George Washington B	10	10	10	30
Maryland D	Johns Hopkins B	10	10	10	30
Johns Hopkins A	Maryland A	10	10	10	30
Georgetown B	Maryland B	10	10	0	20
Notre Dame E	NYU B	0	10	0	10
Georgetown A	Penn B	10	10	0	20
UMBC A	Johns Hopkins C	10	10	10	30
VCU A	George Mason B	10	10	10	30
George Washington A	Catholic University	0	10	10	20
Missouri A	SIUE	10	10	0	20
WashU B	Truman State	10	10	0	20
WashU D	William Woods	0	10	10	20
Chicago A	Notre Dame D	0	10	0	10
Chicago D	Notre Dame A	0	0	10	10
Louisville B	Illinois A	0	10	0	10
Illinois C	Louisville A	10	10	0	20
Indiana A	UIC	10	10	10	30
Michigan B	Indiana B	10	10	0	20
Kentucky	Michigan D	10	10	10	30
Chicago B	Michigan C	10	10	0	20
Michigan A	Purdue B	10	10	10	30
Notre Dame B	Purdue C	10	10	0	20
BU	MIT B	10	10	0	20
Bowdoin B	BC B	0	10	10	20
Brown C	Brandeis Clemenceau	0	10	0	10
Brown B	Brandeis Lloyd George	10	10	10	30
Brandeis Wilson	Brandeis Orlando	0	10	0	10
Dartmouth	Cornell-UG	10	10	0	20
Harvard	Brown A	10	10	0	20
Amherst A	MIT A	0	10	0	10
Tufts A	Tufts B	0	10	10	20
Yale A	Williams	0	10	0	10
Yale B	BC A	10	10	0	20
Northwestern A	Alberta B	10	10	0	20
Arizona State B	Ohio	10	10	0	20
Northwestern C	Rose State	10	10	0	20
Arizona State A	Texas A	0	10	0	10
Texas B	McGill D	0	10	0	10
Tulsa	UTD B	0	10	0	10
UCO	Northwestern B	0	10	0	10
Iowa	UTD A	10	10	0	20
Auburn B	Huntsville A	10	10	0	20
Alabama A	Alabama B	0	10	10	20
Georgia Tech C	Georgia Tech A	10	10	0	20
Vanderbilt B	Georgia Tech B	0	10	0	10
Georgia Tech D	Vanderbilt A	10	10	0	20
Huntsville B	Sewanee A	10	10	0	20
Mississippi State A	UAB A	0	10	10	20
Bruin A	Auburn A	10	10	0	20
Imperial B	Bristol B	10	10	0	20
Sheffield B	City St George's A	0	10	10	20
Imperial C	Durham B	0	0	10	10
Edinburgh B	Cambridge A	10	10	10	30
Imperial A	Birmingham A	10	10	10	30
LSE A	Edinburgh A	10	0	10	20
Lancaster A	Cambridge C	10	10	10	30
LSE B	Manchester B	0	0	0	0
Oxford A	Manchester A	10	10	10	30
Oxford B	Durham A	0	10	10	20
Southampton A	Sheffield C	0	0	0	0
Cambridge D	Southampton B	10	10	10	30
Warwick A	Sheffield A	10	10	10	30
Warwick B	Bristol A	0	10	10	20