Abdulrazak Gurnah - 2026 ACF Regionals

Question

A character in a novel by this author realizes that he is a “figure in a story told by someone else. Not I” as he stays at a bed and breakfast in an English seaside town. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this Nobel-Prize-winning Tanzanian author who wrote about Saleh Omar seeking asylum in England in his novel By the Sea.

ANSWER: Abdulrazak Gurnah

[10e] Obinze takes a job cleaning toilets after immigrating to England and separating from Ifemelu in Americanah, a novel by this author known for her TED Talk “The Danger of a Single Story.”

ANSWER: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

[10m] In this novel, the protagonist can only say “sorry” and “thank you” after first moving to London. That protagonist later sews clothing from materials brought to her from Chanu and Karim.

ANSWER: Brick Lane

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Summary


California (South)	Main Site	Y	4	17.50	100%	50%	25%
Canada	Main Site	Y	12	14.17	100%	17%	25%
Great Lakes	Main Site	Y	4	12.50	100%	25%	0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	Y	9	16.67	89%	33%	44%
Northeast	Main Site	Y	6	20.00	83%	50%	67%
Overflow	Main Site	Y	3	16.67	100%	0%	67%
Southeast	Main Site	Y	8	13.75	88%	38%	13%
UK	Main Site	Y	6	16.67	100%	17%	50%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	Y	8	17.50	88%	25%	63%

Data


Arizona State	UC Irvine	0	10	0	10
UCLA B	UCSD B	10	10	10	30
UCLA A	UCSD A	0	10	10	20
UC Santa Barbara	UCSD C	0	10	0	10
Ohio State B	CWRU A	0	10	0	10
Michigan A	Michigan B	0	10	0	10
Ohio State A	Pittsburgh	0	10	10	20
CWRU B	Ohio State C	0	10	0	10
Duke	Liberty B	10	10	10	30
Liberty A	Wake Forest	0	10	10	20
NC State A	James Madison B	0	0	0	0
North Carolina A	North Carolina C	0	10	0	10
South Carolina A	James Madison A	0	10	0	10
Virginia Tech A	VCU	10	10	10	30
Virginia Tech B	North Carolina B	10	10	0	20
Virginia	Liberty C	10	10	0	20
William and Mary	South Carolina B	0	10	0	10
Dartmouth B	Bowdoin A	0	0	0	0
MIT	Bowdoin B	10	10	10	30
Brown	Brandeis B	10	10	0	20
Harvard A	Brandeis A	10	10	10	30
Southern Connecticut State	Harvard B	0	10	0	10
Yale	Dartmouth A	10	10	10	30
Western C	Brock	0	10	0	10
Waterloo B	Carleton University	0	10	0	10
McGill A	Guelph	0	10	0	10
Western A	McMaster B	0	10	0	10
Ottawa	Queen's	0	10	0	10
Simon Fraser	McGill B	0	10	0	10
Toronto B	UBC A	10	10	10	30
Toronto C	Toronto G	0	10	0	10
UBC B	Toronto E	10	10	0	20
Toronto Metropolitan	Toronto F	0	10	0	10
Waterloo A	McMaster A	10	10	10	30
Western B	Toronto D	0	10	0	10
Iowa State	Missouri B	0	10	0	10
Minnesota A	Missouri A	10	10	0	20
Washington B	Washington A	10	10	0	20
Bruin	Louisville B	10	10	10	30
Georgia Tech C	Georgia Tech D	0	10	0	10
Kentucky	Mississipi State	0	10	0	10
Sewanee	Louisville A	0	0	0	0
Alabama A	Tennessee A	0	10	0	10
Alabama B	Tennessee B	0	10	0	10
Georgia Tech B	WashU A	0	10	10	20
WashU B	Vanderbilt B	0	10	10	20
Birmingham	Southampton A	0	10	0	10
Imperial B	Cambridge A	0	10	0	10
Oxford C	Cardiff	0	10	0	10
NYU A	Catholic	10	10	10	30
Columbia A	Rutgers B	10	10	10	30
Columbia B	Columbia C	10	10	0	20
John Jay	Rutgers A	0	10	0	10
Johns Hopkins A	Maryland A	10	10	0	20
Maryland C	Johns Hopkins B	10	10	0	20
NYU C	Maryland B	0	0	0	0
NYU B	Georgetown	0	10	0	10
Edinburgh A	Warwick A	10	10	10	30
Montpellier	Warwick B	10	10	0	20
Manchester	Southampton B	10	10	0	20