Sarah Waters - 2025 ACF Winter

Question

In a novel by this author, Margaret fails to steal a plait of hair that “smelt of sulphur” before discovering it sent to her a few days later. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this author who depicted Margaret falling in love with the medium Selina Dawes in her novel Affinity. This author of Fingersmith depicted Nan’s relationship with the “masher” Kitty Butler in Tipping the Velvet.

ANSWER: Sarah Waters

[10m] Tipping the Velvet is a modern example of this literary genre, which depicts the episodic adventures of lower-class rogues. It is often compared to Daniel Defoe’s Moll Flanders, a work in this genre.

ANSWER: picaresque

[10e] Moll Flanders is born in one of these places called Newgate, and is later reunited with her “Lancashire husband” there. Oscar Wilde wrote a ballad titled for one of these places in Reading (“RED-ing”).

ANSWER: prisons [or jails; or gaols; accept “The Ballad of Reading Gaol”]

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Summary


Florida	Main	Y	13	11.54	69%	39%	8%
North	Main	Y	10	16.00	90%	60%	10%
Overflow	Main	Y	3	20.00	100%	67%	33%
Pacific Northwest	Main	Y	10	18.00	90%	70%	20%
Southeast	Main	Y	11	12.73	82%	36%	9%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	8	11.25	75%	38%	0%
Upstate NY	Main	Y	8	8.75	75%	13%	0%
2025 ACF Nationals	2025-08-09	Y	14	20.71	100%	79%	29%

Data


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