Proust Questionnaire - 2026 ACF Regionals

Question

This is likely the most famous entry in a genre of 19th- and 20th-century parlor game called a confession album, in which participants filled in answers to prompts like “your favorite virtue.” For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this set of statements whose originator wrote “feminine charm” in response to the prompt “your favorite qualities in a man.” It is named for an author who first answered it at age fourteen for the daughter of Félix Faure (“for”).

ANSWER: Proust Questionnaire [prompt on Marcel Proust]

[10m] James Lipton used a variant of the Proust Questionnaire in interviews as the host of a Bravo show titled for going “Inside” this organization. Elia Kazan co-founded this organization where Lee Strasberg taught the “Method.”

ANSWER: the Actors Studio [accept Inside the Actors Studio]

[10e] This magazine features a Proust Questionnaire on the back page of each monthly issue. This pop culture magazine shares its name with an 1847 novel about Becky Sharp by William Makepeace Thackeray.

ANSWER: Vanity Fair

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Summary


California (North)	Main Site	Y	3	20.00	100%	67%	33%
California (South)	Main Site	Y	4	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Florida	Main Site	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
Great Lakes	Main Site	Y	4	12.50	100%	25%	0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	Y	9	8.89	78%	11%	0%
Midwest	Main Site	Y	9	13.33	100%	22%	11%
Northeast	Main Site	Y	6	13.33	100%	0%	33%
Overflow	Main Site	Y	4	12.50	100%	0%	25%
South Central	Main Site	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Southeast	Main Site	Y	7	12.86	100%	29%	0%
UK	Main Site	Y	6	11.67	100%	0%	17%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	Y	8	10.00	88%	13%	0%
Upstate NY	Main Site	Y	4	15.00	100%	25%	25%

Data


Berkeley A	Berkeley B	0	10	10	20
UCLA A	UCSD B	0	0	10	10
UCLA B	UC Santa Barbara	0	0	10	10
UCSD A	UC Irvine	0	0	10	10
UCSD C	Arizona State	0	0	10	10
Stanford A	Stanford B	10	10	10	30
Ohio State A	Michigan B	0	10	10	20
Ohio State C	Michigan State	0	0	10	10
Central Florida C	Central Florida B	0	10	10	20
Florida B	Florida A	0	0	10	10
Central Florida A	Florida C	0	0	10	10
Pittsburgh	Michigan A	0	0	10	10
Michigan C	Ohio State B	0	0	10	10
Duke	James Madison B	0	0	10	10
NC State B	James Madison A	0	0	10	10
Liberty A	Virginia Tech B	0	0	10	10
Liberty B	North Carolina A	0	0	10	10
South Carolina B	Virginia Tech A	0	0	0	0
North Carolina C	VCU	0	10	10	20
North Carolina B	Virginia	0	0	10	10
Wake Forest	Liberty C	0	0	0	0
NC State A	William and Mary	0	0	10	10
Northwestern B	Chicago B	0	10	10	20
Illinois A	Chicago C	0	0	10	10
Notre Dame A	Chicago D	0	0	10	10
Northwestern D	Chicago E	0	0	10	10
Chicago A	Illinois B	0	0	10	10
Indiana B	Indiana C	0	0	10	10
Northwestern C	Notre Dame B	0	0	10	10
Indiana A	Purdue A	10	10	10	30
Purdue B	Illinois C	0	0	10	10
MIT	Bowdoin A	0	0	10	10
Harvard A	Bowdoin B	10	0	10	20
Brandeis B	Brandeis A	0	0	10	10
Brown	Southern Connecticut State	0	0	10	10
Harvard B	Dartmouth A	0	0	10	10
Yale	Dartmouth B	10	0	10	20
Iowa State	Carleton College	0	0	10	10
Claremont	Missouri A	0	0	10	10
Washington A	Minnesota A	0	0	10	10
Washington B	Missouri B	10	0	10	20
Texas A&M A	Texas A	0	0	10	10
Murray State A	Texas B	0	0	10	10
Tennessee A	Alabama B	0	0	10	10
Bruin	Tennessee B	0	0	10	10
Georgia Tech C	Louisville B	0	0	10	10
Georgia Tech B	Georgia Tech D	0	0	10	10
Louisville A	WashU B	0	0	10	10
Alabama A	Mississipi State	0	10	10	20
WashU A	Sewanee	0	10	10	20
Oxford C	Birmingham	0	0	10	10
Southampton B	Cambridge A	0	0	10	10
Edinburgh A	Cardiff	10	0	10	20
Imperial B	Montpellier	0	0	10	10
Southampton A	Warwick A	0	0	10	10
Warwick B	Manchester	0	0	10	10
Columbia A	Catholic	0	0	10	10
Columbia B	John Jay	0	10	10	20
Rutgers A	Johns Hopkins A	0	0	10	10
Maryland B	Swarthmore	0	0	10	10
NYU B	NYU A	0	0	10	10
Maryland A	NYU C	0	0	10	10
Rutgers B	Maryland C	0	0	10	10
Vassar	Georgetown	0	0	0	0
Penn State	Binghamton B	10	10	10	30
Cornell C	Cornell B	0	0	10	10
RIT	Binghamton A	0	0	10	10
Cornell A	Rochester	0	0	10	10
Berkeley C	Berkeley D	0	0	10	10