Zimbabwe - 2025 ACF Winter

Question

The biographer Flora Veit-Wild originally published a set of poems by an author from this country, which she claimed she was “the inspiration or catalyst” for. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this country home to an author whose Amelia poems were collected posthumously in Cemetery of Mind. That author from this country wrote Black Sunlight and the short story collection The House of Hunger.

ANSWER: Zimbabwe [or Republic of Zimbabwe]

[10m] Dambudzo Marechera wrote his Amelia poems in this language, which he says he took to “as a duck takes to water.” Drew Shaw contrasted Marechera’s view of this language with that of the author of Decolonizing the Mind.

ANSWER: English (Decolonizing the Mind is by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o.)

[10e] Reading Heinrich Heine inspired Marechera to choose the name Amelia for his poems in this form. The line “sobs!” at the end of one of the Amelia poems breaks from this typically 14-line form.

ANSWER: sonnets

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Summary


California	Main	Y	5	18.00	100%	80%	0%
Canada	Main	Y	5	20.00	100%	100%	0%
Florida	Main	Y	13	18.46	100%	69%	15%
Great Lakes	Main	Y	6	15.00	100%	50%	0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	7	20.00	100%	86%	14%
Midwest	Main	Y	10	16.00	100%	60%	0%
North	Main	Y	11	16.36	100%	64%	0%
Northeast	Main	Y	5	14.00	100%	40%	0%
Overflow	Main	Y	4	17.50	100%	75%	0%
Pacific Northwest	Main	Y	12	19.17	100%	92%	0%
South Central	Main	Y	2	20.00	100%	100%	0%
Southeast	Main	Y	11	18.18	100%	82%	0%
UK	Main	Y	4	20.00	100%	100%	0%
Upstate NY	Main	Y	8	18.75	100%	75%	13%
2025 ACF Nationals	2025-08-09	Y	10	17.00	100%	70%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley	04/19/2025	Y	3	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley	04/19/2025	Y	1	20.00	100%	100%	0%

Data


Berkeley B	Berkeley A	0	10	10	20
UCSD Two Running Violet V Forms	USC	0	10	10	20
Berkeley F	Berkeley E	0	0	10	10
Stanford B	Stanford A	0	10	10	20
UCSC	Stanford C	0	10	10	20
UCLA A	UCI	0	10	10	20
UCLA B	UCSD What Hath God Wrought	0	10	10	20
UCLA D	UCLA C	0	10	10	20
UCSB	Claremont Pitzer	0	10	10	20
Berkeley D	Berkeley C	0	10	10	20
Carleton	McMaster C	0	10	10	20
Toronto C	Guelph A	0	10	10	20
Toronto K	McGill C	0	10	10	20
Western Ontario	McMaster B	0	0	10	10
Waterloo	Queen's B	0	0	10	10
Ottawa	Toronto A	10	10	10	30
Toronto B	Toronto D	10	10	10	30
Toronto E	Guelph B	0	10	10	20
Toronto F	Toronto Metropolitan	0	10	10	20
Toronto H	Queen's A	0	10	10	20
McGill B	Toronto I	0	0	10	10
Toronto G	Toronto J	0	0	10	10
UF C	FIU	0	0	10	10
UF E	FSU	0	0	10	10
UF A	Melbourne A	0	10	10	20
UCF A	Melbourne B	0	10	10	20
UCF B	USF	0	10	10	20
UF B	UF D	0	0	10	10
OSU D	CWRU A	0	10	10	20
CWRU C	Kenyon B	0	10	10	20
CWRU D	Kenyon A	0	10	10	20
MSU B	Pitt B	0	0	10	10
Pitt A	OSU A	10	10	10	30
MSU A	OSU B	0	10	10	20
OSU C	CWRU B	0	10	10	20
McMaster A	McGill A	0	10	10	20
Virginia B	Clemson A	0	10	10	20
Tusculum	Clemson B	0	0	10	10
Liberty A	James Madison	0	0	10	10
South Carolina B	NC State	0	0	10	10
North Carolina A	Liberty B	0	10	10	20
North Carolina B	North Carolina C	0	10	10	20
Virginia Tech B	South Carolina A	0	10	10	20
Tennessee A	Virginia A	0	10	10	20
Tennessee B	Roanoke	0	0	10	10
George Mason A	Maryland D	0	0	10	10
George Mason B	Penn A	0	0	10	10
Penn B	George Mason C	0	0	10	10
Georgetown B	Catholic University	0	10	10	20
George Washington B	Johns Hopkins B	0	10	10	20
Georgetown A	Maryland A	0	10	10	20
Maryland B	Johns Hopkins C	0	10	10	20
NYU A	Johns Hopkins A	0	10	10	20
NYU B	UMBC A	0	10	10	20
Notre Dame E	George Washington A	0	0	10	10
Maryland C	VCU A	0	10	10	20
Virginia Tech A	Liberty C	0	10	10	20
Columbia A	Lehigh A	0	10	10	20
Columbia B	Princeton A	0	0	10	10
Lehigh B	Columbia C	0	0	10	10
Swarthmore A	Rutgers C	0	10	10	20
Rowan A	Vassar A	0	0	10	10
Michigan B	Chicago A	0	10	10	20
Purdue A	Chicago B	0	10	10	20
Kentucky	Chicago C	0	10	10	20
Notre Dame C	Chicago D	0	10	10	20
Indiana A	Illinois C	0	10	10	20
Michigan A	Illinois A	0	10	10	20
Louisville A	Michigan C	0	10	10	20
Michigan D	Indiana B	0	10	10	20
Illinois B	Notre Dame B	0	10	10	20
Notre Dame D	Purdue C	0	10	10	20
Purdue B	Louisville B	0	0	10	10
Notre Dame A	UIC	0	10	10	20
Iowa State	Macalester B	0	10	10	20
Carleton	Minnesota A	0	10	10	20
Missouri B	Truman State	0	0	10	10
WashU A	William Woods	0	10	10	20
Missouri A	WashU B	0	10	10	20
SIUE	WashU C	0	10	10	20
Brown B	Amherst B	0	10	10	20
BC A	Brandeis Orlando	0	10	10	20
Brandeis Wilson	BC B	0	0	10	10
BU	Brown A	0	10	10	20
Brandeis Clemenceau	MIT A	0	10	10	20
Harvard	Brown C	0	10	10	20
MIT B	Amherst A	0	0	10	10
Tufts A	Bowdoin B	0	10	10	20
Brandeis Lloyd George	Tufts B	0	10	10	20
Williams	Dartmouth	0	10	10	20
Cornell-UG	Yale A	0	10	10	20
British Columbia A	British Columbia D	0	10	10	20
British Columbia B	British Columbia C	0	10	10	20
Simon Fraser	Washington A	0	10	10	20
Washington B	Alberta	0	10	10	20
Auburn A	Vanderbilt A	0	10	10	20
Bruin A	Alabama A	10	10	10	30
Georgia Tech A	Georgia Tech D	0	10	10	20
Georgia Tech C	Huntsville A	0	10	10	20
Alabama B	Mississippi State A	0	10	10	20
Georgia Tech B	Sewanee A	0	0	10	10
Huntsville B	UAB A	0	0	10	10
Vanderbilt B	Auburn B	0	10	10	20
Birmingham A	Cambridge B	0	10	10	20
Bristol B	LSE A	0	0	10	10
Cambridge C	Edinburgh A	0	10	10	20
Sheffield A	Cambridge D	0	10	10	20
Imperial A	City St George's A	0	10	10	20
Durham A	Southampton B	0	0	10	10
Manchester A	Imperial C	0	10	10	20
Oxford A	Sheffield C	0	10	10	20
Southampton A	Durham B	0	0	10	10
Oxford B	Warwick A	0	10	10	20
Cornell-DII	Binghamton B	0	10	10	20
Syracuse	RIT A	0	10	10	20
Binghamton A	Rochester	0	10	10	20
RIT B	ESF	0	10	10	20