sandstone - 2025 ACF Winter

Question

Answer the following about universities in Australia, for 10 points each.

[10m] This rock names the grouping of the oldest university in each Australian state. In 2019, climbing on a landmark made of this rock was banned out of respect for the Anangu people.

ANSWER: sandstone [accept sandstone universities; prompt on stone]

[10h] This person names a “verdant university” in Sydney and a lighthouse in Sydney Harbour that is the oldest in Australia. Royal penguins nest on an island named for this person halfway between Tasmania and Antarctica.

ANSWER: Lachlan Macquarie [accept Macquarie University; accept Macquarie Lighthouse; accept Macquarie Island]

[10e] The university named for this state is in its capital, Brisbane, and hosts the long-running pitch drop experiment and studies of the Great Barrier Reef off its coast. Like Victoria, this state is named in honor of Victoria.

ANSWER: Queensland [accept University of Queensland]

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Summary


California	Main	Y	5	14.00	80%	40%	20%
Canada	Main	Y	6	10.00	83%	17%	0%
Florida	Main	Y	12	14.17	100%	25%	17%
Great Lakes	Main	Y	6	10.00	83%	17%	0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	7	15.71	100%	57%	0%
Midwest	Main	Y	8	15.00	100%	38%	13%
North	Main	Y	11	16.36	100%	55%	9%
Northeast	Main	Y	5	18.00	100%	80%	0%
Overflow	Main	Y	4	15.00	100%	25%	25%
Upstate NY	Main	Y	8	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2025 ACF Nationals	2025-08-09	Y	14	20.00	100%	64%	36%
2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley	04/19/2025	Y	4	12.50	100%	25%	0%

Data


Berkeley B	Berkeley A	0	0	10	10
Berkeley D	Stanford B	10	0	0	10
Stanford A	Berkeley E	10	0	10	20
Stanford C	Berkeley C	0	0	10	10
Berkeley F	UCSC	0	10	10	20
UCSD Vices and Virtues	UCI	0	0	10	10
UCLA A	Claremont Scripps	0	0	10	10
Claremont Pitzer	UCLA B	0	0	10	10
UCLA C	UCSD Two Running Violet V Forms	0	0	10	10
UCLA D	USC	0	0	0	0
UCSB	UCSD What Hath God Wrought	10	0	10	20
Guelph A	Western Ontario	10	10	10	30
Carleton	Guelph B	0	0	10	10
McGill B	Toronto A	10	0	10	20
McMaster C	Toronto E	0	0	10	10
McMaster A	Ottawa	0	0	10	10
McGill C	Queen's B	0	0	10	10
Toronto C	Toronto H	0	10	10	20
Queen's A	Toronto I	0	0	10	10
Toronto J	Toronto G	0	0	10	10
Toronto B	Toronto K	0	0	10	10
Toronto Metropolitan	Toronto F	10	0	10	20
Toronto D	Waterloo	0	0	10	10
FSU	ERAU A	0	0	10	10
UF D	Melbourne A	0	0	0	0
UF B	UCF A	0	0	10	10
UF A	FIU	0	0	10	10
USF	ERAU B	10	0	10	20
UF E	UCF B	0	0	10	10
CWRU C	MSU B	10	0	10	20
CWRU B	CWRU A	0	0	10	10
Pitt A	MSU A	10	0	10	20
OSU B	OSU A	10	0	10	20
OSU D	OSU C	0	0	10	10
Pitt C	CWRU D	10	0	10	20
Liberty A	Liberty C	10	10	10	30
South Carolina B	Tusculum	0	0	10	10
South Carolina A	Tennessee A	0	0	10	10
Virginia B	Tennessee B	0	0	10	10
Virginia A	Clemson B	0	0	10	10
Roanoke	Virginia Tech A	10	0	10	20
Virginia Tech B	NC State	0	0	10	10
Clemson A	James Madison	10	0	10	20
Kenyon B	Kenyon A	0	0	10	10
Catholic University	George Mason A	0	0	10	10
George Mason C	George Washington B	0	0	10	10
George Washington A	Georgetown B	0	0	10	10
Johns Hopkins A	VCU A	10	0	10	20
Maryland B	Johns Hopkins B	10	0	10	20
Maryland C	Georgetown A	10	0	10	20
NYU A	Penn A	10	0	10	20
NYU B	Maryland D	0	0	10	10
Penn B	Johns Hopkins C	10	0	10	20
UMBC A	Notre Dame E	0	0	10	10
Columbia A	Lehigh B	10	0	10	20
Columbia B	Swarthmore A	10	0	10	20
Princeton A	Columbia C	10	0	10	20
Rowan A	Lehigh A	10	0	10	20
Rutgers B	Rutgers C	0	0	10	10
Maryland A	George Mason B	10	10	10	30
Missouri A	WashU B	0	0	10	10
WashU A	Missouri B	0	0	10	10
WashU C	William Woods	0	0	10	10
Truman State	WashU D	10	10	10	30
Alabama A	UAB A	10	0	10	20
Georgia Tech B	Alabama B	10	0	10	20
Auburn A	Mississippi State A	0	0	10	10
Huntsville A	Sewanee A	0	0	10	10
Georgia Tech A	Vanderbilt B	0	0	10	10
Georgia Tech C	Vanderbilt A	10	0	10	20
Georgia Tech D	Huntsville B	0	0	10	10
Bruin A	Auburn B	10	0	10	20
Imperial A	Birmingham A	0	10	10	20
Cambridge C	Bristol A	10	0	10	20
Durham B	Southampton B	0	0	10	10
Edinburgh A	Cambridge A	10	0	10	20
Imperial C	Cambridge D	10	10	10	30
Oxford A	Southampton A	10	10	10	30
Oxford B	Sheffield B	10	0	10	20
Edinburgh B	Warwick B	0	0	10	10
City St George's A	Imperial B	10	0	10	20
Cambridge B	Durham A	10	10	10	30
LSE A	Manchester A	0	0	10	10
Manchester B	Bristol B	10	10	10	30
Lancaster A	Sheffield C	10	0	10	20
Sheffield A	Warwick A	0	0	10	10
RIT A	Binghamton A	0	0	10	10
Cornell-DII	RIT B	0	0	10	10
ESF	Rochester	0	0	10	10
Binghamton B	Syracuse	10	0	10	20