Question
Despite having a royal flush, the speaker of one poem surprisingly loses a game of poker to this figure who “holds five aces.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Identify this figure who resides on an island in a poetry collection by Anne Sexton titled for “The Awful Rowing Toward” this figure. The speaker of the poem “Ariel” refers to Ariel as this figure’s “lioness.”
ANSWER: God [reject “Jesus”]
[10e] “Ariel” is the title poem of a collection by this author and friend of Sexton who compared her father to “Not God but a swastika” in the poem “Daddy.”
ANSWER: Sylvia Plath
[10h] This author of the mountain climbing book Feeding the Rat wrote about the days leading up to Sylvia Plath’s death in the book The Savage God.
ANSWER: Al Alvarez [or Alfred Alvarez; or A. Alvarez]
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Summary
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Berkeley | 01/27/2024 | Y | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 67% | 33% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ JMU | 01/27/2024 | Y | 8 | 11.25 | 100% | 13% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Minnesota | 01/27/2024 | Y | 2 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Nebraska | 01/27/2024 | Y | 6 | 11.67 | 100% | 17% | 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 | 16.00 | 100% | 60% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Imperial | 01/27/2024 | Y | 8 | 13.75 | 100% | 25% | 13% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Vanderbilt | 01/27/2024 | Y | 5 | 14.00 | 100% | 40% | 0% |
Data
| GWU A (UG) | Duke A (UG) | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Liberty B (DII) | Virginia C (UG) | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Maryland A (Grad) | Virginia B (UG) | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Virginia A (UG) | Maryland B (UG) | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Maryland C (DII) | Liberty C (DII) | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| UNC A (Grad) | Roanoke College A (DII) | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| UNC B (UG) | Liberty A (Grad) | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| UNC C (UG) | William & Mary A (UG) | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |