Salem, Massachusetts - 2026 ACF Regionals

Question

A water pump in this town narrates a short, comedic story in which it describes the “manifold duties” it fulfills and urges everyone to stay hydrated. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this town where a man has “no hopeful verse” cast on his tombstone. In that story, a man from this town sees his wife’s pink ribbon in a tree before a dream-like ritual at which he tells her to “resist the Wicked One!”

ANSWER: Salem, Massachusetts [accept Salem Town or Salem Village] (The first story is “A Rill from the Town Pump.”)

[10e] This author, who added a “W” to his surname to distance himself from his Salem ancestry, published his story “Young Goodman Brown” in the collection Mosses from an Old Manse.

ANSWER: Nathaniel Hawthorne

[10h] John Endicott, who is depicted as the leader of Salem in Hawthorne’s story “Endicott and the Red Cross,” also appears in this Hawthorne story in which he orders the title object to be taken down at Edgar and Edith’s wedding.

ANSWER: “The May-Pole of Merry Mount”

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Summary


California (North)	Main Site	Y	3	20.00	100%	100%	0%
California (South)	Main Site	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Canada	Main Site	Y	5	14.00	80%	40%	20%
Great Lakes	Main Site	Y	4	17.50	100%	50%	25%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Midwest	Main Site	Y	4	15.00	100%	25%	25%
Northeast	Main Site	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
Overflow	Main Site	Y	3	23.33	100%	100%	33%
South Central	Main Site	Y	1	30.00	100%	100%	100%
Southeast	Main Site	Y	5	16.00	100%	60%	0%
UK	Main Site	Y	7	7.14	43%	29%	0%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	Y	6	18.33	100%	67%	17%
Upstate NY	Main Site	Y	2	20.00	100%	50%	50%

Data


Stanford A	Berkeley A	10	10	0	20
Berkeley B	Berkeley D	10	10	0	20
Berkeley C	Stanford B	10	10	0	20
Carleton University	Toronto B	0	10	0	10
Waterloo B	Guelph	10	10	0	20
McMaster B	Brock	0	0	0	0
Waterloo A	Ottawa	10	10	10	30
Simon Fraser	Queen's	0	10	0	10
Michigan A	Michigan B	0	10	10	20
Ohio State A	Michigan C	10	10	0	20
CWRU A	Ohio State B	10	10	0	20
CWRU B	Ohio State C	0	10	0	10
North Carolina C	South Carolina B	0	10	0	10
Virginia Tech A	Liberty B	0	10	0	10
Illinois A	Illinois B	10	10	10	30
Purdue B	Indiana A	0	10	0	10
Chicago A	Indiana B	0	10	0	10
Notre Dame B	Chicago D	0	10	0	10
Harvard A	Brandeis B	10	10	0	20
Brown	MIT	0	10	0	10
UCSD A	UCLA B	0	10	0	10
UCSD C	UCSD B	0	10	0	10
Texas A	Murray State A	10	10	10	30
Claremont	Washington A	10	10	0	20
Missouri A	Minnesota A	10	10	0	20
Georgia Tech A	Washington B	10	10	10	30
Alabama A	Bruin	0	10	0	10
Alabama B	Louisville B	0	10	0	10
Georgia Tech C	Kentucky	10	10	0	20
Louisville A	Mississipi State	10	10	0	20
Georgia Tech B	WashU B	10	10	0	20
Manchester	Warwick A	0	0	0	0
Cambridge A	Edinburgh A	0	0	0	0
Imperial A	Bristol	10	0	0	10
LSE	Durham	10	10	0	20
Montpellier	Southampton A	0	0	0	0
Georgetown	Columbia A	10	10	0	20
Columbia C	John Jay	0	10	0	10
Maryland B	Johns Hopkins A	10	10	0	20
NYU B	Maryland C	0	10	0	10
Columbia B	NYU C	10	10	10	30
Swarthmore	Rutgers A	10	10	0	20
Cornell A	Cornell C	0	10	0	10
Penn State	RIT	10	10	10	30
Oxford A	Cambridge B	0	10	0	10
Oxford B	Cambridge C	0	10	0	10