World War II - 2025 ACF Winter

Question

The “missing pages” of the novel HHhH (“H-H-H-H”), which is set during this event, criticize a novel set during this event and its opening line, “Oh my human brothers, let me tell you how it happened.” For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this event, the setting of Jonathan Littell’s 900-page novel The Kindly Ones. In a work by a Romanian-born author set during this event, the narrator meets Madame Schächter and hears Juliek play the violin.

ANSWER: World War II [or WWII; or Second World War; accept the Holocaust or the German occupation of France or Operation Anthropoid; accept descriptions of Reinhard Heydrich’s assassination] (HHhH is by Laurent Binet. The last clue is about Night by Elie Wiesel.)

[10e] The Kindly Ones is framed as a fictional work in this genre by Dr. Maximilien Aue (“OW-uh”). Elie Wiesel recounted his experiences during the Holocaust in a work in this genre titled Night.

ANSWER: memoir [or autobiography]

[10h] The narrator investigates a Jewish girl who disappeared in Paris in 1941 in his autobiographical novel Dora Bruder. Guy Roland loses his memory during World War II in this author’s novel Missing Person.

ANSWER: Patrick Modiano [or Jean Patrick Modiano]

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Summary


California	Main	Y	5	16.00	80%	80%	0%
Canada	Main	Y	1	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Florida	Main	Y	12	15.83	83%	58%	17%
Great Lakes	Main	Y	6	13.33	100%	33%	0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	7	17.14	100%	57%	14%
Midwest	Main	Y	8	16.25	88%	75%	0%
North	Main	Y	11	13.64	91%	46%	0%
Northeast	Main	Y	5	14.00	80%	60%	0%
Overflow	Main	Y	4	20.00	100%	100%	0%
South Central	Main	Y	5	18.00	100%	80%	0%
Southeast	Main	Y	12	10.83	75%	33%	0%
UK	Main	Y	4	12.50	75%	50%	0%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	8	17.50	88%	75%	13%
Upstate NY	Main	Y	8	16.25	88%	75%	0%
2025 ACF Nationals	2025-08-09	Y	13	17.69	77%	85%	15%
2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley	04/19/2025	Y	4	15.00	75%	75%	0%

Data


Berkeley D	Berkeley F	10	10	0	20
Berkeley C	Stanford C	10	10	0	20
Berkeley E	Berkeley A	10	0	0	10
Stanford A	UCSC	0	10	0	10
Claremont Scripps	UCSD Vices and Virtues	0	10	0	10
McGill B	Queen's B	10	0	0	10
McMaster C	McGill C	0	10	0	10
Toronto B	McMaster A	10	10	10	30
Queen's A	Toronto K	10	10	0	20
Ottawa	Guelph B	10	10	0	20
Toronto A	Waterloo	10	10	10	30
Guelph A	Toronto F	0	10	0	10
Toronto G	Toronto D	0	10	0	10
Toronto H	Toronto E	10	10	0	20
McMaster B	Toronto I	0	0	0	0
Toronto J	McGill A	10	10	0	20
Toronto Metropolitan	Carleton	0	10	0	10
Berkeley B	Stanford B	10	10	0	20
FSU	USF	0	10	0	10
Melbourne A	Melbourne B	10	10	0	20
FIU	UCF B	0	10	0	10
UF B	UF A	0	10	0	10
CWRU A	Pitt B	10	10	0	20
CWRU B	Kenyon B	0	10	0	10
Pitt A	MSU B	10	10	10	30
OSU A	Kenyon A	10	10	0	20
UF D	ERAU A	0	10	0	10
UCF A	UF E	10	10	0	20
CWRU C	OSU C	0	10	0	10
MSU A	Pitt C	10	10	0	20
OSU D	OSU B	0	10	0	10
North Carolina A	Clemson B	10	10	0	20
Liberty A	North Carolina C	10	10	0	20
NC State	Liberty B	10	10	0	20
James Madison	Tennessee B	0	10	0	10
Tusculum	Tennessee A	0	0	0	0
George Mason A	George Washington A	0	10	0	10
Penn B	George Washington B	0	0	0	0
Georgetown B	UMBC A	10	10	0	20
Johns Hopkins A	Georgetown A	10	10	0	20
Johns Hopkins B	Johns Hopkins C	10	10	0	20
NYU A	Maryland A	10	10	0	20
Maryland B	George Mason C	0	10	0	10
Maryland C	George Mason B	10	10	0	20
Catholic University	NYU B	0	10	0	10
Maryland D	Notre Dame E	0	10	0	10
Penn A	VCU A	0	10	0	10
Columbia B	Vassar A	10	10	0	20
Lehigh B	Rutgers B	0	10	0	10
Rowan A	Columbia C	0	10	0	10
Rutgers C	Lehigh A	10	0	0	10
Princeton A	Swarthmore A	10	10	0	20
Virginia B	North Carolina B	10	10	0	20
Clemson A	Roanoke	10	10	0	20
Virginia A	South Carolina B	10	10	0	20
WashU D	Missouri A	10	10	0	20
WashU A	Truman State	10	10	0	20
Missouri B	WashU B	10	10	0	20
WashU C	William Woods	10	10	0	20
Macalester B	Minnesota C	10	10	0	20
Minnesota A	Iowa State	10	10	0	20
Carleton	Minnesota B	10	10	0	20
Amherst B	Brandeis Orlando	10	10	0	20
Nebraska	Macalester A	10	10	0	20
St. Thomas	Wisconsin	0	10	0	10
BU	Yale A	0	0	0	0
Brandeis Clemenceau	Cornell-UG	0	10	0	10
Brandeis Wilson	Bowdoin A	0	10	0	10
Dartmouth	Brown C	10	10	0	20
Brown B	Tufts A	0	10	0	10
MIT B	Williams	0	10	0	10
Bowdoin B	BC A	0	10	0	10
Tufts B	BC B	0	0	0	0
Harvard	Amherst A	10	10	0	20
Brown A	MIT A	10	0	0	10
Brandeis Lloyd George	Yale B	0	10	0	10
British Columbia D	Washington B	0	10	0	10
Alberta	British Columbia A	0	0	0	0
British Columbia C	British Columbia B	10	10	0	20
Northwestern C	Alberta B	10	10	0	20
Tulsa	Arizona State A	0	10	0	10
Iowa	Arizona State B	0	0	0	0
Northwestern B	Ohio	10	10	0	20
Northwestern A	Rose State	10	10	0	20
Texas A	UTD B	10	10	0	20
Texas B	UTD A	10	10	0	20
McGill D	UCO	10	10	10	30
Auburn A	Alabama B	10	10	0	20
Auburn B	Alabama A	0	10	0	10
Georgia Tech C	Sewanee A	10	10	0	20
Georgia Tech D	Bruin A	0	10	0	10
Huntsville A	Mississippi State A	10	0	0	10
Georgia Tech A	Huntsville B	10	10	0	20
Vanderbilt B	UAB A	10	10	0	20
Georgia Tech B	Vanderbilt A	10	10	0	20
Washington A	Simon Fraser	10	10	0	20
LSE A	Birmingham A	0	10	0	10
Cambridge D	Bristol B	10	10	0	20
Cambridge C	Oxford A	10	0	0	10
Durham B	LSE B	0	0	0	0
Edinburgh A	Southampton A	10	10	0	20
Sheffield A	Imperial A	10	10	0	20
City St George's A	Imperial C	10	10	10	30
Warwick A	Manchester A	10	10	0	20
Edinburgh B	Oxford B	10	10	10	30
Durham A	Sheffield B	10	0	0	10
Lancaster A	Southampton B	10	10	0	20
Warwick B	Cambridge B	10	10	0	20
Cambridge A	Bristol A	10	10	0	20
Binghamton A	Cornell-DII	10	10	0	20
Binghamton B	ESF	10	10	0	20
RIT B	RIT A	0	10	0	10
Syracuse	Rochester	10	0	0	10