Question
This book juxtaposes a human-faced sculpture of a caribou with a prose poem about a therapist who forgot about her appointment with the speaker. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this book, a poem from which describes the “dissolving blues of metaphor” and says that “each body is a strange beach.” Claudia Rankine (“RANK-in”) explores race in this “American Lyric.”
ANSWER: Citizen [or Citizen: An American Lyric]
[10e] Citizen discusses a photo of a player in this sport stuffing her outfit with towels. An academy for this sport in Enfield appears in David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest.
ANSWER: tennis [accept Enfield Tennis Academy]
[10h] Citizen examines Zinedine Zidane’s (“zee-DAHN’s”) headbutt of Marco Materazzi in a section titled for three words, which also appear as a stenciled watermark. Give any of those words, which describe the French national soccer team.
ANSWER: “Black-Blanc-Beur” [or “Black-Blanc-Beur”; or “Black-Blanc-Beur”] (The words are taken from a slogan for French ethnic diversity, with “beur” referring to French Arabs in verlan slang.)
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Summary
| 2024 ACF Nationals | 2024-04-21 | Y | 23 | 19.13 | 100% | 74% | 17% |
Data
| Arizona State | Florida | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Berkeley A | Northwestern | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Chicago B | Columbia A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Chicago C | Truman State | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Chicago D | Berkeley B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Duke | Claremont Colleges | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Stanford | Cornell A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Cornell B | Harvard | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Waterloo | Indiana | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Iowa State | Georgia Tech | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Brown | Maryland | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| McGill | Minnesota B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| NYU | Illinois | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Minnesota A | Purdue | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Rutgers | WUSTL B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Kentucky | South Carolina | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| North Carolina A | Texas | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Toronto A | Michigan | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| North Carolina B | Vanderbilt | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Toronto B | Virginia | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| WUSTL A | Chicago A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Johns Hopkins | Yale A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Yale B | Ottawa | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |