Beirut - 2026 ACF Regionals

Packet B: Bonus 1

Zeina watches her neighbors act out a scene from Cyrano de Bergerac in a bombed-out house in this city in the graphic novel A Game for Swallows. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this city that is “remembered” in a graphic novel by Zeina Abirached (“ah-bee-RAH-shed”). This is the birth city of Amin Maalouf, who wrote a nonfiction history of the Crusades via the perspective of the Arabs.

ANSWER: Beirut [accept I Remember Beirut]

[10h] Like the rest of his novels, Amin Maalouf wrote this novel in French since both he and Abirached moved to France. In this novel, the historian Gebrayel tells the legend of an object shaped like the seat of a throne.

ANSWER: The Rock of Tanios

[10e] In this autobiographical graphic novel by French émigré Marjane Satrapi, she secretly listens to rock music while growing up in Tehran during the Iranian revolution.

ANSWER: Persepolis

<City St Georges A, World Literature> | Packet B - Queens A, UCLA B, Edinburgh B, St. Georges A

Heard	PPB	E %	M %	H %
74	12.03	97%	20%	3%

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Conversion

Team	Opponent	Part 1	Part 2	Part 3	Total	Parts
Alabama B	Vanderbilt B	0	0	10	10	E
Berkeley B	Stanford A	0	0	10	10	E
Berkeley C	Berkeley A	0	10	10	20	HE
Binghamton A	Cornell B	0	0	10	10	E
Brandeis A	Bowdoin B	0	0	10	10	E
Brown	Bowdoin A	10	0	10	20	ME
CWRU A	Michigan B	0	0	10	10	E
Cambridge A	Manchester	0	0	10	10	E
Catholic	Georgetown	0	0	10	10	E
Central Florida A	Central Florida C	0	0	10	10	E
Central Florida B	Florida B	0	0	0	0
Chicago A	Notre Dame A	0	0	10	10	E
Chicago D	Indiana C	0	0	10	10	E
Chicago E	Northwestern B	0	0	10	10	E
Claremont	Carleton College	0	0	10	10	E
Columbia C	Rutgers A	0	0	10	10	E
Dartmouth B	Brandeis B	10	0	10	20	ME
Edinburgh A	Birmingham	10	0	10	20	ME
Florida C	Florida A	0	0	10	10	E
Georgia Tech A	Washington A	10	0	10	20	ME
Georgia Tech B	Bruin	0	0	10	10	E
Georgia Tech C	WashU A	0	0	10	10	E
Georgia Tech D	Alabama A	0	0	10	10	E
Harvard A	Yale	0	0	10	10	E
Illinois B	Chicago B	0	0	10	10	E
Illinois C	Notre Dame B	0	0	10	10	E
Indiana A	Chicago C	10	0	10	20	ME
Johns Hopkins A	John Jay	0	0	10	10	E
Kentucky	Tennessee A	0	0	10	10	E
Louisville A	Tennessee B	0	0	10	10	E
MIT	Dartmouth A	0	0	10	10	E
Maryland B	Maryland A	0	0	10	10	E
Maryland C	Vassar	0	0	10	10	E
McGill A	McMaster B	0	0	10	10	E
McMaster A	McGill B	10	0	10	20	ME
Michigan A	Michigan State	0	0	10	10	E
Minnesota A	Missouri B	0	0	10	10	E
Montpellier	Southampton B	0	0	10	10	E
NC State A	South Carolina B	0	0	10	10	E
NYU A	Columbia A	10	0	10	20	ME
North Carolina A	VCU	0	0	10	10	E
North Carolina B	Liberty C	0	0	10	10	E
North Carolina C	Duke	0	0	10	10	E
Northwestern C	Indiana B	0	0	10	10	E
Northwestern D	Purdue A	0	0	10	10	E
Ohio State A	CWRU B	0	0	10	10	E
Ohio State C	Michigan C	0	0	10	10	E
Penn State	Cornell A	10	10	10	30	MHE
Pittsburgh	Ohio State B	0	0	10	10	E
RIT	Cornell C	0	0	0	0
Rochester	Binghamton B	0	0	10	10	E
Rutgers B	Johns Hopkins B	0	0	10	10	E
Simon Fraser	Toronto Metropolitan	0	0	10	10	E
Southampton A	Oxford C	0	0	10	10	E
Stanford B	Berkeley D	0	0	10	10	E
Swarthmore	Columbia B	10	0	10	20	ME
Texas A	Texas B	0	0	10	10	E
Texas A&M A	Murray State A	10	0	10	20	ME
Toronto D	UBC B	0	0	10	10	E
Toronto E	Carleton University	10	0	10	20	ME
Toronto F	Western C	0	0	10	10	E
Toronto G	Toronto B	0	0	10	10	E
UBC A	Guelph	0	0	10	10	E
Virginia	South Carolina A	0	0	10	10	E
Virginia Tech A	James Madison B	10	0	10	20	ME
Virginia Tech B	NC State B	0	0	10	10	E
Wake Forest	James Madison A	0	0	10	10	E
Warwick A	Cardiff	10	0	10	20	ME
Warwick B	Imperial B	0	0	10	10	E
WashU B	Mississipi State	0	0	10	10	E
Washington B	Missouri A	0	0	10	10	E
Waterloo A	Toronto C	10	0	10	20	ME
Waterloo B	Western A	0	0	10	10	E
William and Mary	Liberty B	10	0	10	20	ME

Summary

Tournament	Edition	Match	Heard	PPB	E %	M %	H %
California (North)	Main Site	✓	3	13.33	100%	0%	33%
Canada	Main Site	✓	10	13.00	100%	30%	0%
Florida	Main Site	✓	3	6.67	67%	0%	0%
Great Lakes	Main Site	✓	5	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	✓	9	12.22	100%	22%	0%
Midwest	Main Site	✓	8	11.25	100%	13%	0%
Northeast	Main Site	✓	5	14.00	100%	40%	0%
Overflow	Main Site	✓	4	12.50	100%	25%	0%
South Central	Main Site	✓	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
Southeast	Main Site	✓	7	10.00	100%	0%	0%
UK	Main Site	✓	6	13.33	100%	33%	0%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	✓	8	12.50	100%	25%	0%
Upstate NY	Main Site	✓	4	12.50	75%	25%	25%