Mignon - 2026 ACF Regionals

Question

This character is first introduced as a child purchased from a theatre troupe and later decides to adopt after she performs an egg dance. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this character from Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship who later sings her namesake song, which opens with “Do you know the land where the lemons blossom?”

ANSWER: Mignon (“MIN-yawn”)

[10e] Mignon is a character created by this author of Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship. This author, a pioneer of the Innerlichkeit style, had his poem “The Erl-King” set to music by Franz Schubert.

ANSWER: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

[10m] The first published poetry collection of this fellow Innerlichkeit poet was his Book of Songs. This poet’s most famous poem describes a maiden who sits on a mountain and combs her hair with a golden brush.

ANSWER: Heinrich Heine (The poem is “Die Lorelei.”)

<JF, European Literature>

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California (North)	Main Site	Y	3	23.33	100%	100%	33%
California (South)	Main Site	Y	4	7.50	50%	25%	0%
Canada	Main Site	Y	10	11.00	60%	50%	0%
Florida	Main Site	Y	3	6.67	67%	0%	0%
Great Lakes	Main Site	Y	5	12.00	80%	20%	20%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	Y	9	14.44	78%	67%	0%
Midwest	Main Site	Y	8	13.75	88%	38%	13%
Northeast	Main Site	Y	6	10.00	50%	33%	17%
Overflow	Main Site	Y	4	10.00	75%	25%	0%
South Central	Main Site	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
Southeast	Main Site	Y	7	10.00	57%	43%	0%
UK	Main Site	Y	12	11.67	67%	42%	8%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	Y	8	16.25	88%	75%	0%
Upstate NY	Main Site	Y	4	12.50	75%	50%	0%

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Berkeley A	Stanford A	0	10	10	20
Berkeley B	Berkeley D	0	10	10	20
Stanford B	Berkeley C	10	10	10	30
UC Santa Barbara	UC Irvine	0	0	0	0
UCLA A	Arizona State	0	10	10	20
UCLA B	UCSD A	0	10	0	10
UCSD B	UCSD C	0	0	0	0
Toronto B	Carleton University	0	0	10	10
Waterloo B	Guelph	0	0	0	0
Simon Fraser	Queen's	0	10	10	20
Toronto D	Toronto C	0	0	0	0
McMaster A	Toronto F	0	10	0	10
UBC A	Western A	0	10	10	20
Toronto Metropolitan	Western B	0	10	0	10
Central Florida A	Florida B	0	10	0	10
Central Florida B	Florida A	0	10	0	10
Florida C	Central Florida C	0	0	0	0
Western C	McGill B	0	0	10	10
McMaster B	Brock	0	10	0	10
Michigan B	Michigan A	10	10	10	30
Ohio State A	Michigan C	0	10	0	10
Ohio State B	CWRU A	0	10	0	10
CWRU B	Ohio State C	0	10	0	10
Michigan State	Pittsburgh	0	0	0	0
NC State A	Duke	0	10	0	10
Virginia Tech B	James Madison A	0	10	10	20
VCU	James Madison B	0	0	0	0
Liberty A	Liberty C	0	10	10	20
Virginia	NC State B	0	10	10	20
North Carolina A	William and Mary	0	10	10	20
South Carolina A	Wake Forest	0	10	10	20
South Carolina B	North Carolina C	0	0	0	0
Virginia Tech A	Liberty B	0	10	10	20
Illinois A	Illinois B	0	10	10	20
Indiana A	Purdue B	0	10	10	20
Indiana B	Chicago A	0	10	0	10
Northwestern C	Chicago E	0	0	0	0
Northwestern D	Illinois C	0	10	0	10
Northwestern B	Notre Dame A	10	10	0	20
Chicago D	Notre Dame B	0	10	0	10
Purdue A	Indiana C	0	10	10	20
Harvard A	Brandeis B	10	10	10	30
Southern Connecticut State	Dartmouth A	0	0	0	0
Harvard B	Bowdoin A	0	0	0	0
Yale	Bowdoin B	0	10	0	10
Dartmouth B	Brandeis A	0	0	0	0
Brown	MIT	0	10	10	20
Waterloo A	Ottawa	0	10	10	20
Claremont	Washington A	0	10	0	10
Iowa State	Missouri B	0	0	0	0
Bruin	Alabama A	0	10	10	20
Alabama B	Louisville B	0	10	0	10
Georgia Tech C	Kentucky	0	10	0	10
Louisville A	Mississipi State	0	10	10	20
Georgia Tech D	Tennessee B	0	0	0	0
Sewanee	Vanderbilt B	0	0	0	0
Georgia Tech B	WashU B	0	0	10	10
Texas B	Texas A&M A	0	10	0	10
Texas A	Murray State A	0	10	10	20
Minnesota A	Missouri A	0	10	10	20
Washington B	Georgia Tech A	0	10	0	10
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Oxford A	Cambridge B	0	10	0	10
Cambridge C	Oxford B	0	10	0	10
Southampton B	Oxford C	0	0	0	0
Imperial B	Birmingham	0	10	0	10
Cambridge A	Edinburgh A	10	10	10	30
Warwick B	Cardiff	0	10	0	10
Edinburgh B	UCL	0	10	0	10
Imperial A	Bristol	0	10	10	20
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Durham	LSE	0	10	0	10
Manchester	Warwick A	0	0	10	10
Columbia A	Georgetown	0	10	10	20
John Jay	Columbia C	0	10	10	20
Johns Hopkins A	Maryland B	0	10	10	20
Vassar	Johns Hopkins B	0	0	0	0
NYU A	Rutgers B	0	10	10	20
NYU B	Maryland C	0	10	10	20
Columbia B	NYU C	0	10	10	20
Swarthmore	Rutgers A	0	10	0	10
RIT	Penn State	0	10	10	20
Rochester	Cornell B	0	10	0	10
Binghamton A	Binghamton B	0	0	0	0
Cornell A	Cornell C	0	10	10	20