Pablo Neruda - 2025 ACF Winter

Question

A priest who repeatedly references Sordello meets this real-life person in the house of a man named Farewell in one novel. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this man. Mario asks this character for help to win over Beatriz while biking across Isla Negra to deliver this man’s mail in the novel The Postman.

ANSWER: Pablo Neruda [or Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto]

[10e] The author of The Postman, Antonio Skármeta, shares this home country with the author who created Farewell in his novel titled By Night in [this country], Roberto Bolaño. Neruda himself was also from this country.

ANSWER: Chile [or Republic of Chile; or República de Chile]

[10m] In The Postman, Neruda recites a poem to Mario describing seven tongues, seven tigers, and seven seas of this color during a discussion about whether the world is a metaphor. Because he considered it the color of hope, Neruda wrote his poems in ink of this color.

ANSWER: green

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Summary


California	Main	Y	5	20.00	100%	100%	0%
Canada	Main	Y	6	16.67	100%	50%	17%
Florida	Main	Y	12	14.17	92%	42%	8%
Great Lakes	Main	Y	6	15.00	100%	50%	0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	7	18.57	100%	86%	0%
Midwest	Main	Y	8	16.25	100%	50%	13%
North	Main	Y	10	13.00	90%	30%	10%
Overflow	Main	Y	4	15.00	75%	75%	0%
Pacific Northwest	Main	Y	12	17.50	92%	75%	8%
Southeast	Main	Y	12	11.67	75%	33%	8%
UK	Main	Y	4	17.50	100%	75%	0%
2025 ACF Nationals	2025-08-09	Y	3	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley	04/19/2025	Y	4	10.00	100%	0%	0%

Data


Berkeley F	Berkeley B	0	10	10	20
Berkeley D	UCSC	0	10	10	20
UCSB	Claremont Scripps	0	10	0	10
UCLA B	UCI	0	10	0	10
Claremont Pitzer	UCLA D	0	10	10	20
UCSD Vices and Virtues	UCLA A	0	10	10	20
UCSD What Hath God Wrought	UCSD Two Running Violet V Forms	0	10	10	20
UCLA C	USC	10	10	0	20
McGill A	Queen's B	0	10	0	10
McMaster B	Guelph B	0	10	0	10
Toronto G	McMaster C	0	10	10	20
Toronto A	Toronto C	0	10	10	20
Toronto B	Guelph A	10	10	10	30
Toronto D	Toronto E	0	10	10	20
Carleton	Toronto I	0	10	0	10
McGill C	Toronto J	0	10	0	10
Toronto F	Toronto K	0	0	0	0
Toronto Metropolitan	Queen's A	0	10	0	10
Toronto H	Waterloo	0	10	10	20
Western Ontario	McMaster A	0	10	0	10
UCF A	ERAU B	0	10	10	20
UF A	FIU	0	10	10	20
Melbourne B	UF B	0	10	0	10
UCF B	ERAU A	0	10	10	20
UF D	UF E	0	10	0	10
UF C	USF	0	10	0	10
OSU B	CWRU B	0	10	10	20
CWRU A	CWRU C	0	10	10	20
Pitt A	CWRU D	0	10	10	20
Pitt B	Kenyon A	0	10	0	10
OSU C	MSU A	0	10	10	20
Kenyon B	MSU B	0	10	10	20
OSU A	Pitt C	0	10	10	20
Roanoke	James Madison	0	10	0	10
Liberty A	Virginia Tech A	0	10	10	20
Liberty C	North Carolina B	0	10	0	10
South Carolina A	NC State	10	10	10	30
Tennessee A	South Carolina B	0	10	0	10
Tennessee B	North Carolina C	0	10	0	10
Virginia A	Liberty B	0	10	10	20
North Carolina A	Virginia Tech B	0	10	10	20
Catholic University	Penn B	0	10	0	10
Berkeley E	Berkeley C	0	10	10	20
Stanford A	Berkeley A	0	10	10	20
Stanford C	Stanford B	0	10	10	20
Missouri A	Missouri B	0	10	10	20
SIUE	Truman State	0	10	10	20
WashU A	WashU D	0	10	10	20
WashU C	WashU B	0	0	0	0
Maryland D	George Mason B	0	0	0	0
Notre Dame E	George Mason C	0	10	0	10
George Washington A	VCU A	0	10	0	10
Johns Hopkins A	George Washington B	0	10	0	10
Georgetown B	George Mason A	0	10	10	20
Georgetown A	Johns Hopkins B	0	10	10	20
Maryland A	Maryland B	10	10	10	30
Johns Hopkins C	NYU A	0	10	0	10
Maryland C	Penn A	0	10	0	10
Michigan B	Chicago B	0	10	10	20
UIC	Chicago C	0	10	10	20
Michigan D	Chicago D	0	10	0	10
Illinois A	Indiana A	10	10	10	30
Illinois B	Louisville A	0	10	10	20
Michigan A	Chicago A	0	10	10	20
Notre Dame C	Michigan C	0	10	10	20
Kentucky	Notre Dame A	0	10	0	10
Notre Dame B	Louisville B	0	10	10	20
Purdue B	Notre Dame D	0	10	10	20
Purdue A	Illinois C	0	10	10	20
Purdue C	Indiana B	0	0	0	0
Amherst A	Bowdoin A	10	10	10	30
Yale A	BC A	0	10	10	20
Brandeis Clemenceau	Amherst B	0	0	0	0
MIT A	Brandeis Orlando	0	10	0	10
Brandeis Wilson	Harvard	0	10	0	10
Brown B	Bowdoin B	0	10	0	10
Brown C	Brandeis Lloyd George	0	10	10	20
BU	Cornell-UG	0	10	0	10
Tufts B	MIT B	0	10	0	10
Brown A	Tufts A	0	0	0	0
BC B	Williams	0	0	0	0
Dartmouth	Yale B	0	10	10	20
Alberta	British Columbia A	0	10	0	10
Simon Fraser	British Columbia B	0	10	10	20
Washington A	British Columbia C	0	10	10	20
British Columbia D	Washington B	0	10	10	20
Bristol A	Manchester B	0	10	0	10
Cambridge A	Warwick B	0	10	0	10
Edinburgh B	LSE B	0	10	0	10
Binghamton A	ESF	0	10	0	10
RIT A	Binghamton B	0	10	0	10
Rochester	Cornell-DII	0	10	0	10
Syracuse	RIT B	0	10	0	10