Vichy France - 2023 ACF Nationals

Question

Irène Némirovsky condemned the citizens that worked with this government in her most famous book before she was executed. For 10 points each:

[10e] The anti-Semitic author Louis-Ferdinand Céline was put on trial for collaborating with what short-lived regime before its 1944 collapse?

ANSWER: Vichy France [or Vichy government or Vichy regime or Régime de Vichy; or État français or French State; prompt on France; reject “French Republic” or “République française”]

[10m] While scholars debate whether the writer Georges Simenon was a Nazi collaborator, he sold the film rights to this character, a pipe-wielding French police detective, to a German studio.

ANSWER: Inspector Maigret [or Jules Maigret; or Chief Inspector Jules Amédée François Maigret]

[10h] Under Nazi occupation, this author worked for the newspaper Le Soir. He included a caricature of a Jewish banker in The Shooting Star and drew on both Hitler and Mussolini for the unseen character Müsstler, the leader of the Syldavian Iron Guard.

ANSWER: Hergé (“air-ZHAY”) [or Georges Prosper Remi] (He created the character of Tintin.)

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Summary


2023 ACF Nationals	04/22/2023	Y	24	14.17	92%	25%	25%

Data


Minnesota A	Chicago C	10	0	0	10
Cornell B	North Carolina A	10	0	0	10
Chicago A	Yale A	10	10	10	30
Florida B	Houston A	10	0	0	10
Michigan A	Imperial A	10	10	0	20
Johns Hopkins A	Minnesota B	10	10	0	20
MIT A	UC Berkeley A	10	0	0	10
McGill A	Rutgers A	10	0	10	20
WUSTL A	Ohio State A	10	0	0	10
Penn State A	Penn A	10	10	0	20
Claremont A	South Carolina A	10	0	0	10
Columbia A	Toronto A	10	0	0	10
Virginia A	Georgia Tech B	10	0	10	20
Texas A	Harvard A	0	0	0	0
Iowa State A	Illinois A	10	0	10	20
NYU A	Columbia B	10	0	0	10
Northwestern A	Indiana A	10	0	0	10
Rutgers B	Vanderbilt A	10	0	0	10
Florida A	Stanford A	10	10	0	20
Purdue A	UC Berkeley B	10	0	0	10
Cornell A	Georgia Tech A	0	0	10	10
WUSTL B	Yale B	10	0	0	10
Chicago B	Brown A	10	0	10	20
Maryland A	Duke A	10	10	0	20