Home Fire - 2026 ACF Regionals

Packet B: Bonus 4

A family in this novel is rejected by a politician who refuses to disclose the fate of their jihadi father who died in transport to Guantánamo Bay. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this novel in which that politician’s son Eamonn (“AY-mun”) falls in love with the jihadi’s daughter Aneeka. At the end of this 2017 novel by Kamila Shamsie, Eamonn and Aneeka die in Karachi with her brother’s body.

ANSWER: Home Fire

[10e] Home Fire is mostly set in this country, to which its Pakistani author Shamsie immigrated. Zadie Smith, an author from this country, deals with this country’s cultural and class tensions in White Teeth.

ANSWER: United Kingdom [or Great Britain; or UK; accept England]

[10m] This other British-Pakistani author wrote of the couple Nadia and Saeed who travel through magical doors to work in London in his novel Exit West. This author grew up in Lahore, where his novel The Reluctant Fundamentalist is set.

ANSWER: Mohsin Hamid

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

Heard	PPB	E %	M %	H %
74	15.41	91%	51%	12%

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Conversion

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

Summary

Tournament	Edition	Match	Heard	PPB	E %	M %	H %
California (North)	Main Site	✓	3	20.00	100%	67%	33%
Canada	Main Site	✓	10	16.00	90%	50%	20%
Florida	Main Site	✓	3	10.00	67%	33%	0%
Great Lakes	Main Site	✓	5	16.00	100%	60%	0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	✓	9	13.33	89%	44%	0%
Midwest	Main Site	✓	8	11.25	75%	38%	0%
Northeast	Main Site	✓	5	16.00	100%	40%	20%
Overflow	Main Site	✓	4	20.00	100%	50%	50%
South Central	Main Site	✓	2	20.00	100%	100%	0%
Southeast	Main Site	✓	7	11.43	71%	43%	0%
UK	Main Site	✓	6	18.33	100%	67%	17%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	✓	8	18.75	100%	63%	25%
Upstate NY	Main Site	✓	4	15.00	100%	50%	0%