Yeah, I was surprised to read this as well. According to NAQT's rules, leading articles can be added where confusion does not result between two similar titles. i.e. "The Invisible Man" can't be accepted for "Invisible Man". And according to their rules, "The Twelfth Night" and "A Twelfth Night" would be acceptable for "Twelfth Night", but "The Hamlet" would not be acceptable for "Hamlet" as the former is a Faulkner work. Is this a correct interpretation? I assume that "A Hamlet" would be ok for "Hamlet", but I'm not sure. (And this is kind of confusing too, because for one it's a guy's name and the other it's a town, I think.) I'm not sure what the exact ACF rules are regarding this as I couldn't find specific examples, but I would think that "The Twelfth Night" and "A Twelfth Night" would both be unacceptable for "Twelfth Night". As for translated titles from foreign languages that don't contain articles such as Russian, Japanese et al., I think that answers such as "An Overcoat", "A/The Woman of the Dunes" should be acceptable. However, would "The War And The Peace" be acceptable? Hmmmmm. Also, NAQT only allows 2 seconds at the end of a TU to buzz in and only 2 seconds after you buzz in to begin your answer. Didn't this used to be 3 seconds? Why the change? 2 seconds isn't very long if you ask me. -Roger
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