the moon landing - 2026 ACF Regionals

Question

This historical event is the subject of Natasha Trethewey’s poem “Vantage,” which supposes that it occurred on a day when she and her “dark-skinned grandmother” went downtown “without armor.” For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this historical event that titles a spoken word poem on the album Small Talk at 125th and Lenox. That poem contrasts this event with stark realities like “a rat done bit my sister Nell” and “I can’t pay no doctor’s bills.”

ANSWER: the moon landing [or Apollo 11; accept descriptions of walking on the moon or equivalents; accept “Whitey on the Moon”; prompt on the Space Race or the Apollo program] (“Whitey on the Moon” is by Gil Scott-Heron.)

[10m] The New York Times commissioned this poet’s “Voyage to the Moon” to accompany its front page story on the landing. This poet of “You, Andrew Marvell” wrote that “A poem should not mean but be” in “Ars Poetica.”

ANSWER: Archibald MacLeish

[10e] This poet of “Funeral Blues” and “September 1, 1939” mocked the achievement as a “phallic triumph” in his poem “Moon Landing.”

ANSWER: W. H. Auden [or Wystan Hugh Auden]

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Summary


California (North)	Main Site	Y	3	26.67	100%	100%	67%
California (South)	Main Site	Y	4	12.50	100%	25%	0%
Canada	Main Site	Y	12	14.17	92%	25%	25%
Florida	Main Site	Y	3	20.00	100%	33%	67%
Great Lakes	Main Site	Y	5	16.00	100%	40%	20%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	Y	9	12.22	67%	44%	11%
Midwest	Main Site	Y	8	15.00	88%	38%	25%
Overflow	Main Site	Y	4	17.50	100%	25%	50%
South Central	Main Site	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
Southeast	Main Site	Y	7	18.57	100%	57%	29%
UK	Main Site	Y	12	12.50	83%	17%	25%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	Y	8	17.50	75%	50%	50%
Upstate NY	Main Site	Y	4	10.00	75%	25%	0%

Data


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