Bathsheba Everdene - 2026 ACF Regionals

Question

This character adds the line “Do not desert me!” to a note for a shepherd whom she earlier saved from asphyxiating in his hut. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this character who marries a different suitor who is shot by Boldwood and buried with Fanny Robin. That suitor impresses this character by splitting a caterpillar on her bosom as part of a swordplay demonstration.

ANSWER: Bathsheba Everdene [or Bathsheba Everdene]

[10m] Bathsheba Everdene initially marries Frank Troy, a man of this occupation. The Sign of the Four begins with Mary Morstan, the daughter of a murdered man in this occupation, receiving pearls from a treasure from Agra Fort.

ANSWER: soldier [or military; accept sergeant; accept captain]

[10e] Far from the Madding Crowd takes its title from a line in this Thomas Gray poem, which says of its title location that “Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest” and begins, “The curfew tolls the knell of parting day.”

ANSWER: “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”

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Summary


California (North)	Main Site	Y	3	20.00	100%	67%	33%
California (South)	Main Site	Y	3	3.33	33%	0%	0%
Canada	Main Site	Y	11	8.18	55%	27%	0%
Florida	Main Site	Y	2	0.00	0%	0%	0%
Great Lakes	Main Site	Y	5	18.00	100%	60%	20%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	Y	7	15.71	86%	57%	14%
Midwest	Main Site	Y	6	16.67	100%	50%	17%
Northeast	Main Site	Y	5	14.00	80%	40%	20%
Overflow	Main Site	Y	2	5.00	50%	0%	0%
South Central	Main Site	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
Southeast	Main Site	Y	7	14.29	86%	43%	14%
UK	Main Site	Y	6	15.00	67%	83%	0%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	Y	9	11.11	89%	22%	0%
Upstate NY	Main Site	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%

Data


Berkeley A	Berkeley B	10	10	10	30
Berkeley C	Berkeley D	0	0	10	10
UCLA B	Arizona State	0	0	0	0
UCLA A	UC Irvine	0	0	10	10
UCSD B	UCSD A	0	0	0	0
McGill B	Brock	0	0	10	10
Guelph	Toronto E	0	10	0	10
Waterloo B	McGill A	0	0	10	10
Queen's	McMaster A	0	0	10	10
Ottawa	Toronto B	0	10	10	20
Toronto C	Simon Fraser	0	0	10	10
Toronto Metropolitan	Toronto D	0	0	0	0
Toronto F	McMaster B	0	0	0	0
Waterloo A	UBC A	0	0	10	10
Carleton University	UBC B	0	10	0	10
Western C	Toronto G	0	0	0	0
Florida A	Central Florida A	0	0	0	0
Florida B	Central Florida C	0	0	0	0
Stanford B	Stanford A	0	10	10	20
Michigan A	Ohio State B	0	10	10	20
Michigan B	Michigan State	10	0	10	20
Michigan C	CWRU A	0	10	10	20
Ohio State C	Ohio State A	0	0	10	10
Liberty A	North Carolina B	0	10	10	20
North Carolina A	Duke	0	10	10	20
Virginia Tech A	North Carolina C	10	0	10	20
South Carolina B	James Madison B	0	0	0	0
South Carolina A	Virginia Tech B	0	10	10	20
Virginia	James Madison A	0	0	10	10
VCU	William and Mary	0	10	10	20
Pittsburgh	CWRU B	0	10	10	20
Illinois A	Chicago B	0	0	10	10
Chicago A	Chicago E	0	0	10	10
Northwestern B	Indiana B	10	10	10	30
Notre Dame A	Northwestern C	0	0	10	10
Purdue A	Notre Dame B	0	10	10	20
Chicago C	Purdue B	0	10	10	20
Brandeis A	Dartmouth A	0	0	10	10
Harvard B	Brandeis B	0	0	0	0
Brown	Dartmouth B	0	0	10	10
Harvard A	Southern Connecticut State	0	10	10	20
Yale	MIT	10	10	10	30
Minnesota A	Georgia Tech A	0	0	10	10
Washington B	Claremont	0	0	0	0
WashU A	Bruin	10	10	10	30
Georgia Tech C	Georgia Tech B	0	10	10	20
Alabama A	Louisville B	0	0	10	10
Mississipi State	Alabama B	0	0	10	10
Georgia Tech D	Tennessee A	0	0	0	0
Louisville A	Vanderbilt B	0	0	10	10
WashU B	Kentucky	0	10	10	20
Murray State A	Texas A&M A	0	0	10	10
Cambridge B	City St. George's	0	10	0	10
Cambridge C	LSE	0	0	10	10
Bristol	Edinburgh B	0	10	10	20
Texas A	Texas B	0	10	10	20
Maryland B	Catholic	0	0	10	10
Columbia C	Rutgers B	0	0	10	10
Georgetown	Swarthmore	0	10	10	20
John Jay	Johns Hopkins B	0	0	10	10
Johns Hopkins A	Columbia A	0	0	10	10
NYU A	Maryland A	0	0	10	10
NYU B	Columbia B	0	0	10	10
Maryland C	Rutgers A	0	0	10	10
NYU C	Vassar	0	10	0	10
Cornell B	Cornell A	0	0	10	10
RIT	Penn State	0	0	10	10
Durham	Oxford B	0	10	10	20
Imperial A	UCL	0	10	10	20
Imperial C	Oxford A	0	10	0	10