Question
Three men known as the Bachelors fly around this location searching for love, sending down a shower of hats wherever they go. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this location, which is primarily depicted in dialogue between Hans Vollman and Roger Bevins III. In a 2017 novel, a man appears in this location to visit his young son Willie.
ANSWER: the Bardo [prompt on the afterlife; prompt on Oak Hill Cemetery; prompt on cemetery or graveyard or churchyard or burial site; reject “heaven” or “purgatory” or any other specific visions of the afterlife]
[10m] This man visits the Bardo in a George Saunders novel. This historical figure is described as a “bronzed, lank man” in a Vachel Lindsay poem titled “[this man] Walks at Midnight.”
ANSWER: Abraham Lincoln [or Abraham; accept Lincoln in the Bardo; accept “Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight”]
[10e] In a Saunders short story, Samuel kills a teenager for stealing candy at an amusement park themed on this conflict. This conflict is central to the Ambrose Bierce essay “What I Saw of Shiloh.”
ANSWER: American Civil War [or United States Civil War] (The Saunders story is “CivilWarLand is in Bad Decline.”)
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Summary
| 2024 ACF Fall at Ohio State | fall | Y | 2 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Washington | fall | Y | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Georgia | fall | Y | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Fall at North Carolina | fall | Y | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Illinois | fall | Y | 10 | 15.00 | 90% | 60% | 0% |
Data
| Chicago A | Purdue B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Chicago B | SIUE | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Illinois A | Iowa A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Northwestern B | Illinois B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Illinois C | Iowa B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Northwestern A | Illinois D | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Notre Dame C | Notre Dame B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Notre Dame A | Purdue A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| WashU B | Purdue C | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| WashU A | Indiana | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |