Hungary - 2026 ACF Regionals

Question

In a novel that won the 2025 Booker Prize, a teenage boy from this country accidentally kills the husband of a 42-year-old woman who had coerced him into a sexual relationship. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this setting of the start of David Szalay’s novel Flesh. This country is also home to the 2002 Nobel-Prize-winning author of Fatelessness.

ANSWER: Hungary [or Magyarország]

[10e] Ironically, despite time spent in concentration camps, Hungarian author Imre Kertész (“EEM-ray KARE-tace”) went on to become a noted translator of works in this language, which included works by Friedrich Dürrenmatt and Friedrich Nietzsche.

ANSWER: German

[10h] In this novel by the Hungarian author Magda Szabó, the elderly housekeeper Emerence dies after learning that people went into her home while she was in the hospital. The protagonist of this novel is also named Magda.

ANSWER: The Door [or Az ajtó]

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Summary


California (North)	Main Site	Y	3	23.33	100%	100%	33%
California (South)	Main Site	Y	4	15.00	100%	25%	25%
Canada	Main Site	Y	12	17.50	100%	33%	42%
Florida	Main Site	Y	3	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Great Lakes	Main Site	Y	4	15.00	100%	50%	0%
Midwest	Main Site	Y	8	13.75	100%	25%	13%
Overflow	Main Site	Y	4	15.00	100%	25%	25%
South Central	Main Site	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Southeast	Main Site	Y	8	13.75	100%	25%	13%
UK	Main Site	Y	12	14.17	100%	42%	0%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	Y	8	21.25	100%	63%	50%
Upstate NY	Main Site	Y	4	12.50	100%	25%	0%

Data


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