Question
In 2021, a Cervantes-Prize-winning author and former vice president from this country fled after his mystery novel Dead Men Cast No Shadows was censored. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this home country of Sergio Ramírez. Another author from this country described the sea as a “vast silvered mirror” in the poem “Symphony in Gray Major” and wrote the collection Azul….
ANSWER: Nicaragua
[10e] An old man fools corrupt colonial bureaucrats in the 16th-century Nicaraguan play El Güegüense (“el gweh-GWEN-say”), in which actors wear these objects. A smiling and frowning pair of these objects symbolizes comedy and tragedy.
ANSWER: masks
[10h] Like Ramírez, this Nicaraguan author and liberation theologian drew on his involvement with the Sandinistas in his writing. The speaker repeats, “Watchman! What hour is it of the night?” in this author’s poem “Zero Hour.”
ANSWER: Ernesto Cardenal
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Summary
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Berkeley | 01/27/2024 | Y | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 67% | 33% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Cornell | 01/27/2024 | Y | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 67% | 33% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ JMU | 01/27/2024 | Y | 11 | 15.45 | 100% | 46% | 9% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Minnesota | 01/27/2024 | Y | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Nebraska | 01/27/2024 | Y | 6 | 18.33 | 100% | 67% | 17% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Ohio State | 01/27/2024 | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Rutgers | 01/27/2024 | Y | 5 | 16.00 | 100% | 60% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Imperial | 01/27/2024 | Y | 4 | 15.00 | 100% | 25% | 25% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Vanderbilt | 01/27/2024 | Y | 5 | 18.00 | 100% | 60% | 20% |
Data
| Claremont A | Iowa A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| UBC A | Michigan State A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Texas A | Rice A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Sorbonne | Iowa B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| UW A | Texas A&M A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Appalachian State | Texas A&M B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |