Franz Kafka - 2026 ACF Regionals

Question

Gabriel García Márquez began writing fiction after an opening line by this author showed him that people were “allowed to write things like that.” For 10 points each:

[10e] Name this author who is described as creating “his own precursors” in one essay. Max Brod published the works of this author, including a novella in which Gregor Samsa awakens after the title transformation.

ANSWER: Franz Kafka

[10m] This author of “Kafka and his Precursors” translated several works by Kafka into Spanish. In a short story by this author, a man dreams into existence a son in the ruins and later learns that he too was dreamed into existence.

ANSWER: Jorge Luis Borges

[10h] In this Kafka story, the mere harsh words of a father compels his son Georg to drown himself in a river.

ANSWER: “The Judgment”

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Summary


California (North)	Main Site	Y	3	26.67	100%	100%	67%
Canada	Main Site	Y	10	19.00	100%	70%	20%
Florida	Main Site	Y	3	20.00	100%	100%	0%
Great Lakes	Main Site	Y	5	20.00	100%	80%	20%
Midwest	Main Site	Y	8	18.75	100%	63%	25%
Northeast	Main Site	Y	6	21.67	83%	67%	67%
Overflow	Main Site	Y	4	22.50	100%	100%	25%
South Central	Main Site	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
Southeast	Main Site	Y	7	12.86	100%	29%	0%
UK	Main Site	Y	12	15.83	100%	50%	8%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	Y	8	23.75	100%	88%	50%
Upstate NY	Main Site	Y	4	17.50	100%	50%	25%

Data


Berkeley A	Stanford B	10	10	10	30
Berkeley B	Berkeley C	10	10	0	20
Stanford A	Berkeley D	10	10	10	30
Brock	McGill A	10	10	10	30
Toronto G	Carleton University	10	10	0	20
Guelph	Western A	10	10	0	20
McGill B	Waterloo B	10	0	0	10
McMaster A	Western C	10	10	0	20
Ottawa	McMaster B	10	10	10	30
Queen's	Toronto Metropolitan	10	10	0	20
Toronto B	Toronto E	10	0	0	10
Toronto C	UBC B	10	10	0	20
Western B	Simon Fraser	10	0	0	10
Central Florida C	Florida A	10	10	0	20
Florida C	Florida B	10	10	0	20
Ohio State A	CWRU A	10	10	0	20
Michigan A	CWRU B	10	10	0	20
Ohio State B	Michigan B	10	0	0	10
Michigan C	Michigan State	10	10	0	20
Pittsburgh	Ohio State C	10	10	10	30
Chicago A	Purdue B	10	10	10	30
Chicago B	Purdue A	10	0	0	10
Chicago C	Northwestern B	10	0	0	10
Chicago D	Illinois A	10	10	0	20
Illinois C	Illinois B	10	0	0	10
Notre Dame B	Indiana C	10	10	0	20
Indiana A	Northwestern C	10	10	10	30
Notre Dame A	Indiana B	10	10	0	20
Central Florida A	Central Florida B	10	10	0	20
Bowdoin B	Brandeis B	0	0	0	0
Brown	Harvard B	10	10	10	30
Harvard A	Dartmouth B	10	10	10	30
MIT	Southern Connecticut State	10	0	10	20
Yale	Brandeis A	10	10	10	30
Bowdoin A	Dartmouth A	10	10	0	20
Claremont	Georgia Tech A	10	10	0	20
Washington B	Iowa State	10	10	10	30
Missouri A	Carleton College	10	10	0	20
Washington A	Missouri B	10	10	0	20
Georgia Tech B	Alabama A	10	0	0	10
Bruin	Georgia Tech D	10	0	0	10
Alabama B	Georgia Tech C	10	0	0	10
Mississipi State	Tennessee B	10	0	0	10
Sewanee	Louisville B	10	0	0	10
WashU A	Tennessee A	10	10	0	20
Kentucky	Vanderbilt B	10	10	0	20
Bristol	Oxford A	10	0	0	10
Imperial C	Cambridge C	10	10	0	20
Cardiff	Southampton A	10	0	0	10
Oxford B	City St. George's	10	10	0	20
Imperial A	Durham	10	0	0	10
Edinburgh A	Oxford C	10	10	10	30
LSE	Edinburgh B	10	10	0	20
Montpellier	Manchester	10	0	0	10
Southampton B	Imperial B	10	0	0	10
Cambridge B	UCL	10	10	0	20
Birmingham	Warwick A	10	10	0	20
Warwick B	Cambridge A	10	0	0	10
Texas A	Murray State A	10	10	0	20
Texas B	Texas A&M A	10	0	0	10
Maryland A	Columbia C	10	10	0	20
Georgetown	Maryland C	10	10	10	30
NYU A	Johns Hopkins B	10	10	10	30
NYU B	Catholic	10	0	0	10
Swarthmore	NYU C	10	10	0	20
Binghamton B	Cornell A	10	0	0	10
Binghamton A	Cornell C	10	0	0	10
RIT	Cornell B	10	10	0	20
Penn State	Rochester	10	10	10	30
Columbia A	Vassar	10	10	0	20
Maryland B	John Jay	10	10	10	30
Johns Hopkins A	Columbia B	10	10	10	30