Dame Rebecca West - 2023 ACF Nationals

Question

In her youth, this author trained to be an actress, which inspired her use of the name of an Ibsen character as a pseudonym. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this author who wrote a nearly 1,200-page travel book detailing her 1937 trip to Yugoslavia, called Black Lamb and Grey Falcon.

ANSWER: Dame Rebecca West [or Dame Cicily Isabel Fairfield]

[10e] Despite calling him “the Old Maid of novelists” in a review of his novel Marriage, West later had a torrid affair with this author of The War of the Worlds.

ANSWER: H. G. Wells [or Herbert George Wells]

[10h] West’s book The Strange Necessity concludes that “though [this novel] is ugly and incompetent, it is a work of art.” Virginia Woolf called this book a novel “of the utmost sincerity” whose author understands that “life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged.”

ANSWER: Ulysses (by James Joyce)

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Summary


2023 ACF Nationals	04/22/2023	Y	24	15.42	100%	46%	8%

Data


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