Johann Peter Hebel  - 2024 ACF Nationals

Question

Kafka and Ernst Bloch thought the most beautiful story ever written was a short piece by this author that captures the passage of 50 years by listing events like the Lisbon earthquake. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this 19th-century German author whose story “Unexpected Reunion” is excerpted in the essay “The Storyteller.” This author wrote “calendar stories” and a Treasure Chest of Rhenish tales.

ANSWER: Johann Peter Hebel (“HAY-bell”)

[10e] This author of “The Storyteller” praised Hebel for embedding the passage of time “in natural history.” This critic’s death interrupted his Arcades Project.

ANSWER: Walter Benjamin [or Walter Bendix Schönflies Benjamin]

[10m] Both “Unexpected Reunion” and a story by E. T. A. Hoffmann depict the discovery of Fet-Mats in one of these places. Stendhal’s theory of love was inspired by these places, which Novalis inspected for his day job.

ANSWER: mines [accept copper mines, salt mines, Salzbergwerk, or Kupfermine; prompt on caves, caverns, underground areas, pits, shafts, quarries, or synonyms of any] (The Hoffmann story is “The Mines of Falun.”)

Back to bonuses

Summary


2024 ACF Nationals	2024-04-21	Y	24	7.92	63%	17%	0%

Data


Claremont Colleges	Arizona State	10	0	10
Chicago C	Vanderbilt	10	0	10
Chicago A	Cornell A	10	10	20
Illinois	Georgia Tech	10	0	10
Kentucky	Harvard	10	0	10
Iowa State	Johns Hopkins	0	0	0
Toronto A	Maryland	10	0	10
Chicago D	Minnesota B	0	0	0
Michigan	NYU	10	10	20
North Carolina B	Cornell B	0	10	10
Brown	Northwestern	0	0	0
Penn	Ottawa	10	0	10
Purdue	Indiana	10	0	10
Rutgers	Florida	10	0	10
McGill	South Carolina	0	0	0
Minnesota A	Stanford	10	0	10
Columbia A	Texas	10	0	10
Toronto B	Duke	0	0	0
Truman State	Berkeley B	10	0	10
Virginia	Yale B	0	0	0
North Carolina A	WUSTL A	10	10	20
WUSTL B	Columbia B	0	0	0
Waterloo	Chicago B	0	0	0
Yale A	Berkeley A	10	0	10