Question
In a story from Sergio Pitol’s (“SAIR-hee-oh pee-TOLL’s”) collection Mephisto’s Waltz, this animal gives the narrator a message of “twelve enlightening words.” For 10 points each:
[10h] A novel by a different author opens with a man’s description of a young woman from the Carpathians painting what type of animal at a zoo?
ANSWER: panthers [accept black panthers; prompt on big cats or felines or Cat People; prompt on black leopards] (The novel is Manuel Puig’s Kiss of the Spider Woman.)
[10e] Pitol’s story “The Panther” is included in Sun, Stone, and Shadows, an anthology of stories from this country. This country is home to the author of the poem “Sunstone.”
ANSWER: Mexico [or United Mexican States; or Estados Unidos Mexicanos; reject “Estados Unidos”] (Octavio Paz wrote “Sunstone.”)
[10m] Sun, Stone, and Shadows also includes this author’s story “Tell Them Not to Kill Me!”, which is part of his collection The Burning Plain. In a novel by this author, the title tyrant lets the town die of hunger out of spite while he is mourning Susana’s death.
ANSWER: Juan Rulfo [or Juan Nepomuceno Carlos Pérez Rulfo Vizcaíno; prompt on Vizcaíno] (The novel is Pedro Páramo.)
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Summary
| 2023 ACF Nationals | 04/22/2023 | Y | 21 | 20.00 | 100% | 62% | 38% |
Data
| UC Berkeley B | Columbia A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Columbia B | Indiana A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| NYU A | Cornell B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Chicago C | Duke A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| UC Berkeley A | Imperial A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Michigan A | Illinois A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Minnesota B | Georgia Tech B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Chicago A | Penn A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Vanderbilt A | Rutgers A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| WUSTL B | Texas A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Yale B | Purdue A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Chicago B | Johns Hopkins A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Florida A | Toronto A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| WUSTL A | South Carolina A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Ohio State A | Yale A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Georgia Tech A | MIT A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Minnesota A | Houston A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Iowa State A | North Carolina A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Brown A | Northwestern A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Virginia A | Cornell A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Maryland A | Harvard A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |