House of Leaves - 2026 ACF Regionals

Question

The album Haunted was released as a companion to this novel by the author’s sister Poe. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this ergodic novel that opens “this is not for you.” In this novel, the explorer Holloway Roberts has a breakdown and attempts to kill his crew while investigating the impossibly long Five and a Half Minute Hallway.

ANSWER: House of Leaves (by Mark Z. Danielewski)

[10m] The house’s owner, Will Navidson, makes one of these things called The Navidson Record. In another novel, the Québécois Wheelchair Assassins and the O.N.A.N. search for one of these things that induces total obsession.

ANSWER: films [or movies; or videos; or motion pictures; accept documentary or documentaries; prompt on pictures or cartridges or discs]

[10e] The latter novel, Infinite Jest, is by this postmodernist author known for his excessive use of footnotes.

ANSWER: David Foster Wallace [or DFW]

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Summary


California (North)	Main Site	Y	3	23.33	100%	67%	67%
Canada	Main Site	Y	10	19.00	90%	60%	40%
Florida	Main Site	Y	3	10.00	67%	33%	0%
Great Lakes	Main Site	Y	5	20.00	100%	20%	80%
Midwest	Main Site	Y	8	20.00	100%	63%	38%
Northeast	Main Site	Y	6	18.33	100%	50%	33%
Overflow	Main Site	Y	4	25.00	100%	75%	75%
South Central	Main Site	Y	2	25.00	100%	50%	100%
Southeast	Main Site	Y	7	14.29	100%	29%	14%
UK	Main Site	Y	12	20.83	100%	67%	42%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	Y	8	26.25	100%	100%	63%
Upstate NY	Main Site	Y	4	17.50	100%	50%	25%

Data


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