reflections - 2025 ACF Winter

Question

In a short story, an adolescent girl starts crying when she recognizes one of these things while playing with a ballgown. For 10 points each:

[10h] Identify these things that the title character helps the Duke regain at the end of the story “Wolf-Alice.” In an 1898 novel, Jonathan cuts himself shaving when he notices a character who does not have one of these things.

ANSWER: reflections (The novel is Dracula.)

[10m] “Wolf-Alice” is the final story in The Bloody Chamber, a fairy-tale-inspired collection by this author.

ANSWER: Angela Carter [or Angela Olive Pearce; or Angela Stalker]

[10e] The shortest story in The Bloody Chamber is partly titled for this substance. That story draws on a fairy tale about a character who eats a poison apple and is partly named for this substance.

ANSWER: snow [accept “The Snow Child”; accept Snow White]

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Summary


California	Main	Y	5	20.00	100%	80%	20%
Canada	Main	Y	1	0.00	0%	0%	0%
Florida	Main	Y	7	15.71	86%	43%	29%
Great Lakes	Main	Y	3	16.67	67%	33%	67%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	6	20.00	100%	67%	33%
Midwest	Main	Y	7	12.86	86%	29%	14%
North	Main	Y	7	11.43	100%	14%	0%
Northeast	Main	Y	4	17.50	100%	25%	50%
Overflow	Main	Y	4	17.50	100%	50%	25%
Pacific Northwest	Main	Y	11	15.45	100%	55%	0%
South Central	Main	Y	3	13.33	100%	0%	33%
Southeast	Main	Y	8	17.50	88%	50%	38%
UK	Main	Y	4	12.50	75%	50%	0%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	7	18.57	86%	43%	57%
Upstate NY	Main	Y	7	15.71	100%	29%	29%
2025 ACF Nationals	2025-08-09	Y	11	18.18	100%	64%	18%
2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley	04/19/2025	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%

Data


Berkeley B	Stanford C	10	10	10	30
Berkeley C	UCSC	0	10	10	20
Stanford A	Berkeley D	0	0	10	10
Stanford B	Berkeley E	0	10	10	20
McMaster A	Guelph A	0	0	0	0
Toronto H	McMaster C	10	10	10	30
Carleton	Queen's A	0	0	10	10
Toronto A	Toronto D	0	10	10	20
Toronto B	Ottawa	0	10	10	20
Toronto I	Toronto K	0	0	10	10
Toronto G	Toronto Metropolitan	10	0	10	20
FIU	UCF B	0	0	10	10
UF B	FSU	10	0	0	10
UCF A	UF D	10	10	10	30
CWRU B	CWRU D	0	10	10	20
CWRU C	Pitt C	0	0	10	10
OSU A	CWRU A	10	10	10	30
OSU B	Kenyon B	10	10	10	30
Pitt B	OSU C	0	0	10	10
Pitt A	OSU D	0	10	10	20
UCLA D	UCLA A	0	0	0	0
Berkeley A	Berkeley F	0	10	10	20
Clemson A	North Carolina B	0	0	0	0
Tusculum	North Carolina A	0	0	10	10
Notre Dame E	George Mason A	0	0	10	10
George Washington A	Georgetown A	0	0	10	10
Johns Hopkins A	Georgetown B	0	0	10	10
Johns Hopkins C	Johns Hopkins B	0	0	10	10
Maryland C	Maryland A	0	10	10	20
VCU A	NYU A	0	0	10	10
NYU B	Penn A	0	0	10	10
Columbia A	Swarthmore A	0	10	10	20
Columbia B	Rutgers C	0	0	10	10
Rutgers B	Columbia C	10	0	10	20
Princeton A	Rowan A	10	0	10	20
Missouri B	SIUE	10	0	10	20
Truman State	WashU D	0	0	10	10
WashU A	WashU C	0	10	10	20
Missouri A	William Woods	0	10	10	20
Liberty B	South Carolina B	0	0	10	10
Tennessee A	Virginia Tech B	0	10	10	20
Virginia Tech A	Tennessee B	0	0	10	10
Virginia A	South Carolina A	0	10	10	20
Liberty A	Virginia B	10	0	10	20
Chicago C	Chicago B	0	0	10	10
Illinois A	UIC	0	10	10	20
Indiana A	Michigan B	0	10	10	20
Kentucky	Illinois C	0	10	10	20
Indiana B	Michigan C	0	10	10	20
Chicago A	Notre Dame A	0	10	10	20
Notre Dame B	Notre Dame C	0	0	10	10
Louisville A	Notre Dame D	0	0	10	10
Michigan A	Purdue A	0	10	10	20
Purdue B	Michigan D	0	0	10	10
Louisville B	Purdue C	0	0	10	10
Iowa State	Carleton	0	0	10	10
Nebraska	Minnesota A	10	0	10	20
Wisconsin	Macalester A	0	0	10	10
Amherst A	BC B	0	10	10	20
MIT A	BU	10	10	10	30
Brown C	Bowdoin A	0	0	10	10
Brandeis Clemenceau	Tufts A	10	0	10	20
Brown A	Yale A	0	10	10	20
Cornell-UG	Brown B	0	0	10	10
Harvard	Tufts B	10	10	10	30
Yale B	MIT B	0	0	0	0
Alberta	British Columbia C	0	0	0	0
British Columbia D	Simon Fraser	0	10	10	20
British Columbia A	Washington A	0	10	10	20
Washington B	British Columbia B	0	0	10	10
Arizona State A	Northwestern C	10	10	10	30
Alberta B	Northwestern B	0	0	10	10
McGill D	Rose State	10	10	10	30
Northwestern A	Texas A	0	10	10	20
Tulsa	Texas B	10	0	10	20
Iowa	UCO	0	0	10	10
UTD A	Ohio	10	0	0	10
Huntsville B	Alabama A	0	0	10	10
Auburn A	Huntsville A	10	0	10	20
Georgia Tech D	Auburn B	10	0	10	20
Georgia Tech C	Georgia Tech B	0	0	10	10
Mississippi State A	Vanderbilt A	0	0	10	10
Georgia Tech A	UAB A	0	10	10	20
Bruin A	Vanderbilt B	0	10	10	20
Birmingham A	Warwick A	0	10	10	20
Oxford A	Bristol A	10	10	10	30
City St George's A	Bristol B	0	10	10	20
Cambridge B	Oxford B	0	0	10	10
Cambridge C	Edinburgh A	0	10	10	20
Edinburgh B	Sheffield B	0	0	10	10
LSE A	Imperial A	0	10	10	20
Imperial B	Imperial C	0	0	10	10
Manchester A	Sheffield A	0	10	10	20
Cambridge D	Manchester B	0	0	10	10
Cambridge A	Southampton A	10	10	10	30
Cornell-DII	Syracuse	0	0	10	10
RIT B	Rochester	0	10	10	20