Beirut - 2026 ACF Regionals

Question

Zeina watches her neighbors act out a scene from Cyrano de Bergerac in a bombed-out house in this city in the graphic novel A Game for Swallows. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this city that is “remembered” in a graphic novel by Zeina Abirached (“ah-bee-RAH-shed”). This is the birth city of Amin Maalouf, who wrote a nonfiction history of the Crusades via the perspective of the Arabs.

ANSWER: Beirut [accept I Remember Beirut]

[10h] Like the rest of his novels, Amin Maalouf wrote this novel in French since both he and Abirached moved to France. In this novel, the historian Gebrayel tells the legend of an object shaped like the seat of a throne.

ANSWER: The Rock of Tanios

[10e] In this autobiographical graphic novel by French émigré Marjane Satrapi, she secretly listens to rock music while growing up in Tehran during the Iranian revolution.

ANSWER: Persepolis

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Summary


California (North)	Main Site	Y	3	13.33	100%	0%	33%
Canada	Main Site	Y	10	13.00	100%	30%	0%
Florida	Main Site	Y	3	6.67	67%	0%	0%
Great Lakes	Main Site	Y	5	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	Y	9	12.22	100%	22%	0%
Midwest	Main Site	Y	8	11.25	100%	13%	0%
Northeast	Main Site	Y	5	14.00	100%	40%	0%
Overflow	Main Site	Y	4	12.50	100%	25%	0%
South Central	Main Site	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
Southeast	Main Site	Y	7	10.00	100%	0%	0%
UK	Main Site	Y	6	13.33	100%	33%	0%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	Y	8	12.50	100%	25%	0%
Upstate NY	Main Site	Y	4	12.50	75%	25%	25%

Data


Berkeley B	Stanford A	0	0	10	10
Berkeley C	Berkeley A	0	10	10	20
Stanford B	Berkeley D	0	0	10	10
McGill A	McMaster B	0	0	10	10
McMaster A	McGill B	10	0	10	20
Toronto E	Carleton University	10	0	10	20
Toronto F	Western C	0	0	10	10
UBC A	Guelph	0	0	10	10
Toronto D	UBC B	0	0	10	10
Waterloo B	Western A	0	0	10	10
Central Florida A	Central Florida C	0	0	10	10
Central Florida B	Florida B	0	0	0	0
Florida C	Florida A	0	0	10	10
Simon Fraser	Toronto Metropolitan	0	0	10	10
Ohio State A	CWRU B	0	0	10	10
Pittsburgh	Ohio State B	0	0	10	10
Ohio State C	Michigan C	0	0	10	10
Toronto G	Toronto B	0	0	10	10
Michigan A	Michigan State	0	0	10	10
CWRU A	Michigan B	0	0	10	10
North Carolina C	Duke	0	0	10	10
North Carolina A	VCU	0	0	10	10
North Carolina B	Liberty C	0	0	10	10
NC State A	South Carolina B	0	0	10	10
Virginia Tech A	James Madison B	10	0	10	20
Virginia Tech B	NC State B	0	0	10	10
Virginia	South Carolina A	0	0	10	10
Wake Forest	James Madison A	0	0	10	10
William and Mary	Liberty B	10	0	10	20
Waterloo A	Toronto C	10	0	10	20
Illinois B	Chicago B	0	0	10	10
Indiana A	Chicago C	10	0	10	20
Chicago D	Indiana C	0	0	10	10
Chicago E	Northwestern B	0	0	10	10
Northwestern C	Indiana B	0	0	10	10
Northwestern D	Purdue A	0	0	10	10
Chicago A	Notre Dame A	0	0	10	10
Illinois C	Notre Dame B	0	0	10	10
Brown	Bowdoin A	10	0	10	20
Brandeis A	Bowdoin B	0	0	10	10
Dartmouth B	Brandeis B	10	0	10	20
MIT	Dartmouth A	0	0	10	10
Harvard A	Yale	0	0	10	10
Claremont	Carleton College	0	0	10	10
Minnesota A	Missouri B	0	0	10	10
Georgia Tech A	Washington A	10	0	10	20
Washington B	Missouri A	0	0	10	10
Texas A&M A	Murray State A	10	0	10	20
Texas A	Texas B	0	0	10	10
Louisville A	Tennessee B	0	0	10	10
Georgia Tech D	Alabama A	0	0	10	10
Georgia Tech B	Bruin	0	0	10	10
Georgia Tech C	WashU A	0	0	10	10
WashU B	Mississipi State	0	0	10	10
Kentucky	Tennessee A	0	0	10	10
Edinburgh A	Birmingham	10	0	10	20
Cambridge A	Manchester	0	0	10	10
Warwick A	Cardiff	10	0	10	20
Montpellier	Southampton B	0	0	10	10
Southampton A	Oxford C	0	0	10	10
Warwick B	Imperial B	0	0	10	10
Alabama B	Vanderbilt B	0	0	10	10
Catholic	Georgetown	0	0	10	10
NYU A	Columbia A	10	0	10	20
Swarthmore	Columbia B	10	0	10	20
Columbia C	Rutgers A	0	0	10	10
Penn State	Cornell A	10	10	10	30
Binghamton A	Cornell B	0	0	10	10
RIT	Cornell C	0	0	0	0
Rochester	Binghamton B	0	0	10	10
Johns Hopkins A	John Jay	0	0	10	10
Maryland B	Maryland A	0	0	10	10
Rutgers B	Johns Hopkins B	0	0	10	10
Maryland C	Vassar	0	0	10	10