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Question

In a story from the collection Marcovaldo, the central character tries to teach his children about this entity, but is stopped by a neon sign with the word “GNAC” on it. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this entity described as “Soft” in the title of another story by the same author. In a story by that author, the narrator’s cousin, the Deaf One, extracts milk from the scales of this entity.

ANSWER: Moon [accept “The Distance of the Moon” or “Moon and GNAC” or “The Soft Moon”]

[10e] In addition to writing “The Distance of the Moon,” this author wrote about the moon illuminating a “carpet of leaves” in his novel If on a winter’s night, a traveler.

ANSWER: Italo Calvino

[10m] “The Distance of the Moon” is the opening story of this Calvino collection. This collection, which is paired with t zero in its “Complete” version, introduced the character Qfwfq.

ANSWER: Cosmicomics [or Le cosmicomiche]

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Summary


California	Main	Y	5	24.00	100%	100%	40%
Canada	Main	Y	6	16.67	100%	50%	17%
Florida	Main	Y	13	13.08	69%	54%	8%
Great Lakes	Main	Y	6	5.00	33%	17%	0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	7	17.14	71%	57%	43%
Midwest	Main	Y	10	12.00	70%	40%	10%
North	Main	Y	11	11.82	64%	36%	18%
Northeast	Main	Y	5	18.00	80%	80%	20%
Overflow	Main	Y	4	10.00	50%	50%	0%
Pacific Northwest	Main	Y	12	17.50	83%	58%	33%
South Central	Main	Y	5	12.00	80%	40%	0%
Southeast	Main	Y	12	10.83	67%	33%	8%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	8	16.25	88%	63%	13%
2025 ACF Nationals	2025-08-09	Y	14	15.71	86%	64%	7%
2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley	04/19/2025	Y	4	10.00	50%	50%	0%
UK (North)	UK	N	5	20.00	100%	80%	20%
UK (South)	UK	N	8	16.25	100%	63%	0%

Data


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