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Description acceptable. An employee of this place responds “I will do nothing to harm you” after another character cryptically yells “You swear and I swear!” at him. A location in Toronto named for John P. Robarts (10[1]-5[1])likely inspired this place, which contains an object with the “power of a thousand scorpions.” A map of this place (10[1]-5[1])is marked with initials that stand for words like Aegyptus, Gallia, and Yspania. After solving a riddle (10[2])by (10[1])pressing (10[1])the (10[1])first and seventh letters of the (10[1])word “quatuor,” (-5[1])a mirror in this place (10[1])is revealed (10[1])to be a door. After (10[1])sneaking out of this place through the kitchen, a character has sex (10[1])with a peasant girl who leaves him (-5[1])an ox heart. (-5[2])The lovers Malachi and his assistant Berengar (10[1]-5[1])are the only two people who can access this place (-5[1])and its secret room, the finis Africae. For 10 points, name this location where Jorge of Burgos eats a poisoned copy of Aristotle’s Poetics in a novel (10[1])about Italian monks by Umberto (10[1])Eco. (10[2])■END■ (10[2]0[2])

ANSWER: the library from The Name of the Rose [accept the finis Africae until read; accept Il nome della rosa in place of “The Name of the Rose”; prompt on library by asking “from what work of literature?”; prompt on the Aedificium by asking “what location within the Aedificium?”; prompt on the abbey from The Name of the Rose by asking “what location within the abbey?”]
<European Literature>
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2023 ACF Nationals04/22/2023Y2286%0%36%107.26

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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Kevin FanMcGill ARutgers B35-5
Raymond ChenToronto AColumbia B3510
Christopher SimsNorthwestern ACornell B55-5
Justin ChenNYU AStanford A5510
Matt JacksonChicago AVanderbilt A7210
Amogh KulkarniChicago BCornell A7210
Eve FleisigUC Berkeley AIowa State A7310
Caleb KendrickMaryland APenn A7410
Daniel SheinbergYale AColumbia A7510
Aiden DartleyRutgers AMinnesota A8110
Ted GanPenn State AMIT A83-5
Cole TimmerwilkeHarvard AHouston A8810
Tegan KapadiaGeorgia Tech BBrown A9010
Arya KarthikGeorgia Tech AChicago C9510
Mitch McCullarIllinois ADuke A10710
Neal JoshiWUSTL BOhio State A114-5
Matthew LehmannWUSTL APurdue A117-5
Karsten RynearsonYale BIndiana A117-5
Todd MaslykMichigan AFlorida B12410
Jisoo YooTexas AUC Berkeley B124-5
Jonathan ShaufNorth Carolina AVirginia A134-5
Kevin ParkClaremont AMinnesota B16110
Collin AceRutgers BMcGill A16610
Clark SmithOhio State AWUSTL B16710
Justin HawkinsIndiana AYale B16710
Richard NiuCornell BNorthwestern A1680
Anuttam RamjiUC Berkeley BTexas A16810
Ricky LiMIT APenn State A1680
Gio MazzeoVirginia ANorth Carolina A16810