“The Interlopers” - 2025 ACF Winter

Question

In this story, two men who are pinned beneath a tree share a wine flask and imagine what it would be like if they “rode into the market square together.” For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this story in which the reconciliation of the feud between the Znaeym (“z’NAY-um”) and von Gradwitz families is cut short by the one-word sentence “Wolves.”

ANSWER: “The Interlopers”

[10e] “The Interlopers” is by this pseudonymous British author, whose collection Beasts and Super-Beasts also contains the story “The Open Window.”

ANSWER: Saki [or Hector Hugh Munro]

[10h] In a story by Saki with this title, a bachelor entertains three children on a train by describing a “horribly good” girl being eaten by a wolf. An essay by Walter Benjamin with this English title examines the works of Nikolai Leskov.

ANSWER: “The Storyteller”

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Summary


California	Main	Y	5	14.00	100%	20%	20%
Canada	Main	Y	6	8.33	50%	33%	0%
Great Lakes	Main	Y	6	1.67	17%	0%	0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	7	10.00	71%	29%	0%
Midwest	Main	Y	10	9.00	60%	30%	0%
North	Main	Y	10	10.00	80%	20%	0%
Northeast	Main	Y	5	4.00	20%	20%	0%
Pacific Northwest	Main	Y	9	15.56	89%	56%	11%
Pacific Northwest	Main	Y	1	0.00	0%	0%	0%
South Central	Main	Y	5	12.00	80%	20%	20%
Southeast	Main	Y	12	7.50	50%	25%	0%
UK	Main	Y	4	17.50	100%	75%	0%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	8	8.75	63%	25%	0%
Upstate NY	Main	Y	8	10.00	63%	38%	0%
2025 ACF Nationals	2025-08-09	Y	11	5.45	55%	0%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley	04/19/2025	Y	4	10.00	100%	0%	0%

Data


Stanford B	UCSC	0	10	0	10
Berkeley A	Berkeley D	10	10	10	30
Stanford C	Berkeley E	0	10	0	10
Berkeley C	Berkeley F	0	10	0	10
Stanford A	Berkeley B	0	10	0	10
Claremont Scripps	UCSD Two Running Violet V Forms	0	0	0	0
UCSB	UCLA A	0	0	0	0
UCLA B	UCSD Vices and Virtues	10	10	0	20
UCLA C	UCSD What Hath God Wrought	0	0	0	0
USC	Claremont Pitzer	0	10	0	10
UCLA D	UCI	10	10	0	20
UF B	ERAU B	0	0	0	0
FIU	Melbourne A	0	10	0	10
UF E	Melbourne B	0	0	0	0
ERAU A	UF C	0	0	0	0
UF D	FSU	0	0	0	0
UF A	USF	0	0	0	0
CWRU C	Kenyon A	0	0	0	0
CWRU A	MSU A	0	10	0	10
OSU D	CWRU B	10	10	0	20
OSU B	MSU B	0	10	0	10
OSU A	OSU C	10	10	0	20
Pitt C	Pitt B	0	0	0	0
CWRU D	Kenyon B	0	10	0	10
Tennessee A	Clemson B	0	10	0	10
Liberty A	Tennessee B	10	10	0	20
North Carolina C	Liberty C	0	10	0	10
James Madison	North Carolina B	0	0	0	0
Roanoke	Virginia B	0	0	0	0
North Carolina A	South Carolina B	10	10	0	20
South Carolina A	Tusculum	10	10	0	20
NC State	Virginia A	0	0	0	0
Virginia Tech A	Clemson A	0	10	0	10
Virginia Tech B	Liberty B	0	0	0	0
George Mason B	Georgetown A	10	10	0	20
Maryland C	Georgetown B	0	10	0	10
Johns Hopkins C	George Washington A	0	10	0	10
Maryland A	George Mason C	10	10	0	20
Maryland B	Penn A	0	10	0	10
Catholic University	NYU A	0	10	0	10
NYU B	George Washington B	0	10	0	10
Johns Hopkins A	Notre Dame E	0	10	0	10
Maryland D	Penn B	0	0	0	0
VCU A	UMBC A	0	0	0	0
Columbia A	Princeton A	10	10	0	20
Columbia C	Swarthmore A	0	0	0	0
Vassar A	Lehigh A	0	0	0	0
Rowan A	Lehigh B	0	0	0	0
Columbia B	Rutgers B	0	0	0	0
Michigan A	Chicago D	0	10	10	20
Indiana A	Purdue C	10	10	0	20
Indiana B	Illinois A	10	10	0	20
Louisville B	Michigan B	0	10	0	10
Chicago A	Michigan D	10	10	0	20
UIC	Notre Dame B	0	0	0	0
Kentucky	Notre Dame D	0	10	0	10
Illinois B	Purdue A	10	10	0	20
Notre Dame A	Purdue B	10	10	0	20
Chicago C	Notre Dame C	0	0	0	0
Carleton	Minnesota C	0	10	0	10
Macalester A	Minnesota A	0	10	10	20
Macalester B	Iowa State	10	10	0	20
Nebraska	St. Thomas	0	10	0	10
Wisconsin	Minnesota B	0	0	0	0
Brown A	BC A	0	10	0	10
Brandeis Lloyd George	BC B	10	0	0	10
Brandeis Orlando	BU	0	0	0	0
Bowdoin B	Cornell-UG	0	0	0	0
Brandeis Clemenceau	Yale A	0	10	0	10
Amherst A	Brown C	10	10	0	20
MIT A	Brown B	10	10	0	20
Dartmouth	MIT B	0	10	0	10
Amherst B	Tufts A	0	0	0	0
Tufts B	Brandeis Wilson	0	0	0	0
Williams	Bowdoin A	0	10	0	10
Yale B	Harvard	0	0	0	0
Washington B	British Columbia A	10	10	0	20
British Columbia D	Washington A	10	10	0	20
Simon Fraser	British Columbia C	10	10	0	20
Alberta	British Columbia B	0	10	0	10
Northwestern A	Arizona State B	0	10	0	10
UTD A	Alberta B	0	0	0	0
Arizona State A	Northwestern B	10	10	0	20
Iowa	Rose State	0	0	0	0
McGill D	Texas A	0	10	0	10
Texas B	Northwestern C	10	10	0	20
UTD B	UCO	0	0	0	0
Ohio	Tulsa	0	10	0	10
Alabama A	Georgia Tech A	10	10	0	20
Auburn A	Georgia Tech B	10	10	0	20
Georgia Tech C	Alabama B	0	10	0	10
Georgia Tech D	Vanderbilt B	0	10	0	10
Huntsville A	Vanderbilt A	0	10	0	10
Huntsville B	Bruin A	0	0	0	0
Sewanee A	Mississippi State A	0	0	0	0
Auburn B	UAB A	10	0	0	10
Cambridge C	LSE A	0	0	0	0
Birmingham A	Sheffield B	0	10	0	10
Imperial A	Cambridge B	0	10	0	10
Sheffield C	Durham B	0	0	0	0
Warwick B	Edinburgh B	0	0	0	0
Edinburgh A	Imperial B	0	10	0	10
Bristol A	LSE B	0	10	0	10
Bristol B	Lancaster A	0	0	0	0
Southampton A	Manchester A	0	10	0	10
Cambridge A	Manchester B	0	10	0	10
Imperial C	Oxford A	0	0	0	0
Cornell-DII	ESF	0	10	0	10
RIT A	Rochester	0	10	0	10
RIT B	Binghamton B	0	10	0	10
Syracuse	Binghamton A	0	10	0	10