murdering their wife - 2026 ACF Regionals

Question

In a play, Don Lope declares that by doing this action, his honor will be “purified of the alloy basely dulling it.” For 10 points each:

[10h] Describe this action that Gutierre does through Ludovico in The Surgeon of His Honor. This action makes Juan Roca become the titular painter of dishonor in another play.

ANSWER: murdering their wife [accept killing or equivalents in place of “murder”; accept spouse or equivalents in place of “wife”; prompt on murder or synonyms; prompt on descriptions of arson or burning a house by asking “for what purpose is arson committed?”]

[10e] Pedro Calderón de la Barca, who wrote three notable wife-murder plays, was a playwright during this cultural period in Spain. Lope de Vega and Miguel Cervantes were other writers in this cultural period.

ANSWER: Spanish Golden Age [accept Siglo de Oro]

[10m] This title character of a play by Calderón has Don Alvaro killed in order to restore his family’s honor after Alvaro had assaulted his daughter Isabel. King Philip II later approves of this title character’s decision to have Alvaro killed.

ANSWER: Pedro Crespo [or Pedro Crespo; accept The Mayor of Zalamea]

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Summary


California (North)	Main Site	Y	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%
California (South)	Main Site	Y	4	7.50	75%	0%	0%
Canada	Main Site	Y	12	10.00	92%	8%	0%
Florida	Main Site	Y	3	6.67	67%	0%	0%
Great Lakes	Main Site	Y	5	12.00	100%	20%	0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	Y	8	7.50	75%	0%	0%
Midwest	Main Site	Y	8	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Overflow	Main Site	Y	4	12.50	100%	25%	0%
South Central	Main Site	Y	2	15.00	100%	0%	50%
Southeast	Main Site	Y	7	14.29	100%	29%	14%
UK	Main Site	Y	12	11.67	92%	17%	8%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	Y	7	11.43	86%	29%	0%
Upstate NY	Main Site	Y	4	12.50	75%	25%	25%

Data


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