Question
While discussing a scene from The Shaughraun where a man kisses a woman’s ribbon and leaves, this character asks a man, “Do you think he will send her a bunch of yellow roses tomorrow morning?” For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this character. In a chapter echoing that scene, this woman stands at the end of a pier while the protagonist secretly watches her for a few minutes before deciding to leave when a boat crosses a lighthouse in the distance.
ANSWER: Countess Ellen Olenska [or Madame Olenska; or Ellen Mingott]
[10e] Newland Archer later decides to not go up into Ellen’s apartment at the end of this author’s novel The Age of Innocence.
ANSWER: Edith Wharton [or Edith Newbold Jones]
[10m] In the opening of the final chapter, Newland returns from this New York location, where he and Ellen had last privately met 26 years earlier. The title object of Donna Tartt’s novel The Goldfinch is stolen after an explosion in this location.
ANSWER: Metropolitan Museum of Art [or the Met]
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Summary
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Berkeley | 01/27/2024 | Y | 3 | 23.33 | 100% | 100% | 33% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Cornell | 01/27/2024 | Y | 3 | 23.33 | 100% | 67% | 67% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ JMU | 01/27/2024 | Y | 8 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Minnesota | 01/27/2024 | Y | 2 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Nebraska | 01/27/2024 | Y | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Rutgers | 01/27/2024 | Y | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Imperial | 01/27/2024 | Y | 1 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
Data
| Iowa State | Arizona State | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Minnesota B | Minnesota C | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |