Question
In imitation of the heroine of Madeleine de Scudéry’s Clélie, a woman with this name jumps into the Thames to flee from horsemen she perceives to be “ravishers,” only to fall ill. For 10 points each:
[10m] Give this name of a young woman whose romantic delusions are dispelled in Charlotte Lennox’s The Female Quixote. The Rape of the Lock was based on an incident involving a woman with this first name.
ANSWER: Arabella [accept Arabella Fermor]
[10e] Arabella Wilmot’s marriage is canceled after her fiancée’s father is bankrupted in this Oliver Goldsmith novel, which features the villainous Squire Thornhill.
ANSWER: The Vicar of Wakefield
[10h] The protagonist of this author’s 1949 novel Arabella pretends to be an heiress so that she can marry rich. This prolific novelist established the Regency romance genre and was known for meticulous background research.
ANSWER: Georgette Heyer
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Summary
| 2024 ACF Nationals | 2024-04-21 | Y | 24 | 9.58 | 75% | 17% | 4% |
Data
| Berkeley A | Northwestern | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Columbia A | Chicago B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Chicago C | Truman State | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Chicago D | Berkeley B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Duke | Claremont Colleges | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Penn | Columbia B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Cornell A | Stanford | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Harvard | Cornell B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Indiana | Waterloo | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Iowa State | Georgia Tech | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Maryland | Brown | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Minnesota B | McGill | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| NYU | Illinois | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Purdue | Minnesota A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Rutgers | WUSTL B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kentucky | South Carolina | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Texas | North Carolina A | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Toronto A | Michigan | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| North Carolina B | Vanderbilt | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Virginia | Toronto B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| WUSTL A | Chicago A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Yale A | Johns Hopkins | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Yale B | Ottawa | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Florida | Arizona State | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |