Question
A poet from this country described cheerfully confronting Charon on the River Styx “like a scandal” in one poem and wrote the collection Tongues of Diamond. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this home country of Juana de Ibarbourou. The author of The Truce and the verse novel Juan Ángel’s Birthday, Mario Benedetti, is also from this country.
ANSWER: Uruguay [or Oriental Republic of Uruguay; or Eastern Republic of Uruguay; or República Oriental del Uruguay]
[10e] After contracting phlebitis in Mexico, this author of Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair briefly moved to Uruguay with his nurse Matilde Urrutia.
ANSWER: Pablo Neruda [or Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto]
[10m] This Uruguayan-born author of Jungle Tales wrote about four brothers who kill their sister in the story “The Decapitated Chicken,” and a story in which Alicia is killed by the title bloodsucking “Feather Pillow.”
ANSWER: Horacio Quiroga [or Horacio Silvestre Quiroga Forteza]
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Summary
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Berkeley | 01/27/2024 | Y | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Cornell | 01/27/2024 | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ JMU | 01/27/2024 | Y | 9 | 13.33 | 89% | 33% | 11% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Minnesota | 01/27/2024 | Y | 2 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 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 | 18.00 | 100% | 60% | 20% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Imperial | 01/27/2024 | Y | 8 | 13.75 | 100% | 25% | 13% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Vanderbilt | 01/27/2024 | Y | 5 | 20.00 | 100% | 80% | 20% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ MIT | 01/27/2024 | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 33% | 33% |
Data
| MTSU | Alabama | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Geodesic | Georgia Tech B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Vanderbilt A | Harding | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| South Carolina | Tennessee | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Georgia Tech A | Vanderbilt B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |