Wisława Szymborska - 2026 ACF Regionals

Question

This poet describes, “Naked truth, busy ransacking/the earth’s wardrobe” and the dissatisfaction of the “Ideal Being” in “Plato, or Why.” For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this poet, who in one poem described the work that “someone” has to do after “all the cameras have left for another war.”

ANSWER: Wisława Szymborska (“vee-SWAH-vah shim-BOR-skah”)

[10e] Szymborska was a poet in this language, whose Three Bards are Zygmunt Krasiński (“ZIG-moont kra-SHIN-skee”), Juliusz Słowacki (“YOOL-yoosh swo-VAHT-skee”) and Adam Mickiewicz (“meets-K’YEH-veech”).

ANSWER: Polish

[10m] In memory of this event, Szymborska wrote a poem about a photograph that “halted” people “in life” and kept them “above the earth toward the earth.” A controversial poem written about this event asks a sequence of accusatory “who” statements.

ANSWER: September 11th attacks [accept 9/11]

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Summary


California (North)	Main Site	Y	3	20.00	100%	33%	67%
California (South)	Main Site	Y	4	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Canada	Main Site	Y	12	14.17	83%	42%	17%
Florida	Main Site	Y	3	10.00	67%	33%	0%
Great Lakes	Main Site	Y	5	14.00	100%	20%	20%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	Y	9	17.78	100%	33%	44%
Midwest	Main Site	Y	8	13.75	88%	38%	13%
Northeast	Main Site	Y	5	14.00	100%	20%	20%
Overflow	Main Site	Y	3	10.00	67%	0%	33%
South Central	Main Site	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
Southeast	Main Site	Y	8	11.25	75%	38%	0%
UK	Main Site	Y	6	11.67	100%	17%	0%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	Y	9	8.89	78%	11%	0%
Upstate NY	Main Site	Y	4	7.50	25%	25%	25%

Data


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