The Year of Magical Thinking - 2024 ACF Regionals @ Imperial

Question

This book emphasizes how “life changes fast” with the recurring sentence, “You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends.” For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this 2005 book largely set at Beth Israel Medical Center whose third chapter ends with the author wondering, “How could he come back if they took his organs, how could he come back if he had no shoes?”

ANSWER: The Year of Magical Thinking

[10m] This author’s grief after her husband’s death while their daughter was hospitalized is discussed in the memoir The Year of Magical Thinking. This author began one essay with the sentence “We tell ourselves stories in order to live.”

ANSWER: Joan Didion (The essay is “The White Album.”)

[10e] Didion repeatedly quotes the line “I tell you that I shall not live two days,” which is said by this man in the Vulgate Mort Artu. In a Middle English poem, this knight gets into a beheading contest with the Green Knight.

ANSWER: Sir Gawain

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Summary


2024 ACF Regionals @ Cornell	01/27/2024	Y	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%
2024 ACF Regionals @ JMU	01/27/2024	Y	10	10.00	70%	30%	0%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Minnesota	01/27/2024	Y	2	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Nebraska	01/27/2024	Y	6	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Ohio State	01/27/2024	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Rutgers	01/27/2024	Y	5	22.00	100%	80%	40%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Imperial	01/27/2024	Y	8	16.25	100%	50%	13%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Vanderbilt	01/27/2024	Y	5	14.00	80%	60%	0%

Data


Durham B	Bristol	0	0	10	10
Durham A	Cambridge A	0	10	10	20
Edinburgh	Cambridge B	10	10	10	30
Warwick	Imperial A	0	10	10	20
Cambridge C	Imperial B	0	0	10	10
Kiel	KCL	0	0	10	10
Oxford A	Oxford B	0	10	10	20
Sheffield	Oxford C	0	0	10	10