boxing - 2026 ACF Regionals

Question

The Black teen Alfred Brooks takes up this activity under the mentorship of Mr. Donatelli in a novel by Robert Lipsyte. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this activity that the protagonist engages in while blindfolded in a novel’s opening chapter, before a scramble on an electrified rug for fake coins.

ANSWER: boxing [accept fighting or prizefighting; accept battle royale or brawling] (Lipsyte’s novel is The Contender, and the latter novel is Invisible Man.)

[10h] In this novel, the Black teen Griff is killed for failing to throw a boxing match. At the end of this novel, one of the two protagonists is killed during an attempted escape, after which the other adopts his name and identity.

ANSWER: The Nickel Boys (by Colson Whitehead)

[10e] The Black residents of Stamps, Arkansas all crowd around a radio in Momma’s store to listen to a Joe Louis boxing match in a scene from this author’s memoir I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.

ANSWER: Maya Angelou [or Marguerite Annie Johnson]

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Summary


California (North)	Main Site	Y	3	30.00	100%	100%	100%
California (South)	Main Site	Y	4	20.00	100%	50%	50%
Canada	Main Site	Y	10	15.00	100%	20%	30%
Florida	Main Site	Y	3	26.67	100%	67%	100%
Great Lakes	Main Site	Y	4	22.50	100%	75%	50%
Midwest	Main Site	Y	8	21.25	100%	63%	50%
Overflow	Main Site	Y	4	20.00	100%	100%	0%
South Central	Main Site	Y	2	25.00	100%	100%	50%
Southeast	Main Site	Y	6	15.00	100%	33%	17%
UK	Main Site	Y	12	12.50	100%	8%	17%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	Y	8	22.50	100%	75%	50%
Upstate NY	Main Site	Y	3	16.67	100%	33%	33%

Data


Berkeley A	Stanford B	10	10	10	30
Berkeley B	Berkeley C	10	10	10	30
Stanford A	Berkeley D	10	10	10	30
UCSD C	UC Irvine	0	0	10	10
UCLA A	UCLA B	10	10	10	30
Arizona State	UCSD A	0	0	10	10
UCSD B	UC Santa Barbara	10	10	10	30
Simon Fraser	Brock	0	0	10	10
UBC B	Guelph	0	0	10	10
Carleton University	McGill A	10	0	10	20
McGill B	Toronto G	0	0	10	10
McMaster A	Ottawa	0	10	10	20
Toronto B	Waterloo A	0	10	10	20
Waterloo B	Toronto E	0	10	10	20
McMaster B	Toronto Metropolitan	10	0	10	20
UBC A	Queen's	0	0	10	10
Toronto C	Western C	0	0	10	10
Central Florida A	Central Florida B	10	10	10	30
CWRU A	Michigan C	10	0	10	20
Michigan State	CWRU B	0	10	10	20
Ohio State A	Michigan A	10	0	10	20
Pittsburgh	Michigan B	10	10	10	30
Florida A	Central Florida C	10	10	10	30
Florida C	Florida B	0	10	10	20
Indiana C	Chicago B	0	10	10	20
Notre Dame A	Chicago C	0	0	10	10
Purdue A	Chicago D	10	0	10	20
Purdue B	Chicago E	10	10	10	30
Notre Dame B	Illinois B	10	10	10	30
Indiana A	Indiana B	10	10	10	30
Illinois A	Northwestern D	10	0	10	20
Northwestern B	Chicago A	0	0	10	10
Washington A	Carleton College	10	0	10	20
Washington B	Claremont	10	0	10	20
Minnesota A	Iowa State	10	0	10	20
Georgia Tech A	Missouri B	10	0	10	20
Murray State A	Texas A&M A	10	0	10	20
Texas A	Texas B	10	10	10	30
Alabama B	WashU B	0	0	10	10
Georgia Tech B	Tennessee A	0	10	10	20
WashU A	Alabama A	0	0	10	10
Bruin	Georgia Tech C	10	0	10	20
Georgia Tech D	Louisville B	10	0	10	20
Kentucky	Louisville A	0	0	10	10
Bristol	Cambridge A	0	0	10	10
Southampton B	Cambridge C	0	0	10	10
Cardiff	City St. George's	0	0	10	10
Birmingham	Durham	10	10	10	30
Imperial A	Edinburgh A	0	0	10	10
Montpellier	Edinburgh B	0	0	10	10
LSE	Imperial B	0	10	10	20
Warwick B	Imperial C	0	0	10	10
Oxford A	Manchester	0	0	10	10
Oxford C	Oxford B	0	0	10	10
UCL	Southampton A	0	0	10	10
Cambridge B	Warwick A	0	0	10	10
Georgetown	Johns Hopkins B	10	10	10	30
Columbia C	Maryland B	10	10	10	30
NYU A	Vassar	10	0	10	20
Columbia A	NYU B	10	10	10	30
Columbia B	Rutgers A	10	0	10	20
Rutgers B	Catholic	0	0	10	10
Binghamton B	Cornell C	0	0	10	10
Penn State	Cornell B	10	10	10	30
Cornell A	RIT	0	0	10	10
NYU C	Johns Hopkins A	0	10	10	20
Maryland A	Swarthmore	10	0	10	20