Black Panthers - 2026 ACF Regionals

Question

In the essay “The White Album,” Joan Didion describes visiting the apartment of a member of this group who mocks “Guardian dinners” that are like “an old wake.” For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this political group whose members included the playwright Ed Bullins. A future member of this group addressed love letters to Beverly Axelrod in his memoir Soul on Ice.

ANSWER: Black Panthers [or Black Panther Party or BPP; or Black Panther Party for Self-Defense; prompt on the Panthers]

[10h] Leonard Bernstein’s fundraiser for the Black Panthers led an author to coin this term for performative elite adoption of extremism. An essay about this term was published with the essay “Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers.”

ANSWER: radical chic (The essay “Radical Chic: That Party at Lenny’s” is by Tom Wolfe.)

[10e] In 1968, this author hosted a birthday party for the then-imprisoned Black Panther leader Huey Newton. This gay Black author and intellectual wrote Notes of a Native Son and The Fire Next Time.

ANSWER: James Baldwin

<TM, American Literature>

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Summary


California (South)	Main Site	Y	4	15.00	100%	50%	0%
Canada	Main Site	Y	12	13.33	92%	33%	8%
Great Lakes	Main Site	Y	4	10.00	75%	25%	0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	Y	9	18.89	100%	67%	22%
Northeast	Main Site	Y	6	11.67	100%	17%	0%
Overflow	Main Site	Y	3	23.33	100%	100%	33%
Southeast	Main Site	Y	8	12.50	75%	38%	13%
UK	Main Site	Y	6	10.00	67%	17%	17%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	Y	8	16.25	100%	50%	13%

Data


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