Romelio Ureta - 2026 ACF Regionals

Question

Description acceptable. This real-life person might be the addressee of a poem that states “You will know our new covenant was a sign of the stars / and, having broken that enormous pact, you had to die.” For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this railroad worker whose suicide inspired a collection of poems that opens with him being lowered into the earth from a “frozen niche” that men placed him in.

ANSWER: Romelio Ureta [accept, but DO NOT REVEAL, descriptions of Gabriela Mistral’s lover]

[10e] The death of Romelio Ureta inspired Sonnets of Death, which is by this Chilean poet.

ANSWER: Gabriela Mistral [or Lucila Godoy Alcayaga]

[10h] The Sonnets of Death were later included in this collection of Mistral’s poetry. A poem from this collection that begins “A son, a son, a son! I wanted a son of yours” was referenced in Mistral’s Nobel citation in 1945.

ANSWER: Desolación [or Desolation or Despair]

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California (North)	Main Site	Y	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%
California (South)	Main Site	Y	4	7.50	50%	25%	0%
Canada	Main Site	Y	12	10.00	58%	42%	0%
Florida	Main Site	Y	3	10.00	67%	33%	0%
Great Lakes	Main Site	Y	5	14.00	80%	60%	0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	Y	9	11.11	78%	33%	0%
Midwest	Main Site	Y	8	8.75	50%	25%	13%
Northeast	Main Site	Y	5	10.00	40%	40%	20%
Overflow	Main Site	Y	3	13.33	67%	67%	0%
South Central	Main Site	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
Southeast	Main Site	Y	8	16.25	75%	50%	38%
UK	Main Site	Y	6	6.67	33%	17%	17%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	Y	9	12.22	89%	33%	0%
Upstate NY	Main Site	Y	4	7.50	50%	25%	0%

Data


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