“The Crocodile” - 2025 ACF Winter

Question

Animals frequently feature in the poetry of Lewis Carroll, including this creature who titles a poem that parodies Isaac Watts’s Against Idleness and Mischief. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this creature who titles a poem about “how cheerfully he seems to grin, how neatly spreads his claws, and welcomes little fishes in with gently smiling jaws.”

ANSWER: “The Crocodile” [or “How Doth the Little Crocodile”]

[10e] This “nonsense poem” by Carroll features the title fictional creature “with eyes of flame” who is slain when the protagonist’s “vorpal blade went snicker snack!”

ANSWER: “Jabberwocky” [or “The Jabberwock”]

[10m] “Jabberwocky” was included in this novel by Carroll in which Tweedledum and Tweedledee recite “The Walrus and the Carpenter” to Alice during a human-sized game of chess.

ANSWER: Through the Looking-Glass [or Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There]

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Summary


California	Main	Y	5	16.00	100%	40%	20%
Canada	Main	Y	6	18.33	100%	67%	17%
Florida	Main	Y	12	15.83	100%	42%	17%
Great Lakes	Main	Y	6	18.33	100%	83%	0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	7	14.29	100%	43%	0%
Midwest	Main	Y	8	16.25	100%	63%	0%
North	Main	Y	9	16.67	100%	56%	11%
Overflow	Main	Y	4	15.00	100%	50%	0%
Pacific Northwest	Main	Y	12	19.17	100%	83%	8%
Southeast	Main	Y	12	16.67	92%	67%	8%
UK	Main	Y	4	17.50	100%	75%	0%
2025 ACF Nationals	2025-08-09	Y	3	23.33	100%	100%	33%
2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley	04/19/2025	Y	4	12.50	100%	25%	0%

Data


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