Question
This woman is called “the Allmaziful, the Everling” in a chapter that describes a “mamafesta” she wrote to defend her husband, but which was never properly delivered. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this mother of Shem and Shaun. She imagines herself as the River Liffey in a monologue that begins, “Soft morning, city!” and ends the novel in which she appears by wrapping back to its first word, “riverrun.”
ANSWER: Anna Livia Plurabelle [or ALP; or Anna Livia Plurabelle; accept Alma Luvia, Pollabella or Alma Luvia, Pollabella]
[10e] Anna Livia Plurabelle appears as the wife of Humphrey Chimpden Earwicker in this famously difficult final novel by James Joyce.
ANSWER: Finnegans Wake
[10h] In this story by another author, Cynthia realizes that the name of the river Alph from “Kubla Khan” is linked to Anna Livia Plurabelle’s initials. This story’s narrator is fascinated by “a family of brilliant icicles.”
ANSWER: “The Vane Sisters” (by Vladimir Nabokov)
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Summary
| 2024 ACF Nationals | 2024-04-21 | Y | 20 | 11.00 | 95% | 5% | 10% |
Data
| Illinois | Brown | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Chicago D | North Carolina B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Claremont Colleges | McGill | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Berkeley A | Columbia B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Waterloo | Cornell A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Cornell B | South Carolina | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Texas | Georgia Tech | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Indiana | Virginia | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Berkeley B | Iowa State | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Chicago B | Johns Hopkins | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Kentucky | North Carolina A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Vanderbilt | Maryland | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Minnesota A | Columbia A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Harvard | Minnesota B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Northwestern | Penn | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Florida | Toronto A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Michigan | Toronto B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Yale B | Truman State | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| WUSTL A | Rutgers | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Yale A | Arizona State | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |