Pablo Picasso - 2026 ACF Regionals

Question

In a poem whose title mentions this artist, the speaker permutes words in lines like “Would he like it if Napoleon” and “At first exactly,” and ends by claiming that “History teaches.” For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this artist. Another poem focused on a work by this artist talks about “the great capital letter of Being” and begins by asking, “But who are they, tell me, these Travellers…?”

ANSWER: Pablo Picasso [or Pablo Ruiz Picasso] (The poem in the lead-in is by Gertrude Stein.)

[10m] A poem addressing Picasso’s Famille des Saltimbanques (“fa-MEE day sall-tam-BONK”) appears in this collection. The first poem in this collection claims that “beauty is nothing but / the beginning of terror.”

ANSWER: Duino Elegies [or Duineser Elegien] (The first poem is the 5th Elegy.)

[10e] This German author asked “Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the Angelic Orders?” in his Duino Elegies.

ANSWER: Rainer Maria Rilke

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Summary


California (North)	Main Site	Y	2	25.00	100%	100%	50%
California (South)	Main Site	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
Canada	Main Site	Y	7	14.29	86%	43%	14%
Florida	Main Site	Y	2	10.00	50%	50%	0%
Great Lakes	Main Site	Y	4	17.50	100%	75%	0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	Y	4	15.00	75%	75%	0%
Midwest	Main Site	Y	5	20.00	100%	80%	20%
Northeast	Main Site	Y	4	25.00	100%	100%	50%
Overflow	Main Site	Y	4	15.00	100%	50%	0%
South Central	Main Site	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
Southeast	Main Site	Y	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%
UK	Main Site	Y	8	13.75	100%	38%	0%
Upstate NY	Main Site	Y	1	20.00	100%	100%	0%

Data


Berkeley A	Berkeley C	0	10	10	20
UC Santa Barbara	UCLA A	0	0	10	10
UCLA B	UCSD B	0	10	10	20
Carleton University	Simon Fraser	10	10	10	30
Guelph	Toronto F	0	10	10	20
McGill A	Ottawa	0	0	10	10
Western B	Queen's	0	0	0	0
Toronto Metropolitan	Toronto B	0	0	10	10
Western C	UBC A	0	0	10	10
UBC B	Waterloo A	0	10	10	20
Michigan B	CWRU B	0	10	10	20
Michigan C	Michigan A	0	10	10	20
Ohio State A	Pittsburgh	0	10	10	20
Ohio State C	CWRU A	0	0	10	10
Liberty A	Virginia	0	10	10	20
North Carolina A	James Madison B	0	10	10	20
Liberty C	Virginia Tech B	0	0	0	0
William and Mary	North Carolina C	0	10	10	20
Central Florida A	Central Florida C	0	10	10	20
Florida B	Central Florida B	0	0	0	0
Berkeley B	Stanford A	10	10	10	30
Chicago B	Illinois C	0	10	10	20
Illinois B	Chicago D	10	10	10	30
Indiana A	Chicago A	0	10	10	20
Northwestern C	Chicago C	0	0	10	10
Purdue A	Illinois A	0	10	10	20
Brown	Brandeis A	0	10	10	20
MIT	Dartmouth B	10	10	10	30
Harvard A	Harvard B	0	10	10	20
Yale	Southern Connecticut State	10	10	10	30
Georgia Tech A	Iowa State	0	0	10	10
Minnesota A	Carleton College	0	0	10	10
Missouri A	Missouri B	0	10	10	20
Washington A	Washington B	0	10	10	20
Texas A&M A	Texas A	0	0	10	10
Murray State A	Texas B	0	10	10	20
Bruin	Tennessee A	0	10	10	20
WashU A	Georgia Tech D	0	0	10	10
Georgia Tech B	Louisville B	0	10	10	20
Edinburgh B	Birmingham	0	10	10	20
Bristol	Warwick A	0	10	10	20
Cambridge B	Edinburgh A	0	0	10	10
Southampton A	Durham	0	0	10	10
Imperial A	Manchester	0	0	10	10
LSE	Montpellier	0	10	10	20
Cambridge A	Oxford A	0	0	10	10
Warwick B	Cambridge C	0	0	10	10
Penn State	Binghamton A	0	10	10	20