Question

A poet writing in this city described how a man’s sorrows press upon him “more lightly” when “to a friend or fellow traveler he tells his grief.” A group of seven poets from this city inspired the name of the French Pléiade (“pleh-yahd”). A poet from this city was described as standing “at a slight angle to the universe” (10[4])by an author working with the Red Cross. E.M. Forster corresponded with that poet (10[1])from (-5[1])this city and helped popularize (10[1])his largely (10[1])homoerotic (10[2])poetry. (10[1])A poet who worked in this city authored the Aetia (10[1])(“EYE-tee-yuh”) and a now-lost bibliographic work called the Pinakes (10[1])(“pih-nah-kees”); “shades” (10[1])of that poet are mentioned in the opening of an Ezra (10[1])Pound poem. Callimachus (“cal-ih-mah-kus”) was employed in this city, where Constantine Cavafy wrote “say (10[1])goodbye (10[1])to (-5[1])her, (10[1])the (10[1]-5[1])[this city] you are losing” in “The God Abandons Antony.” For 10 points, thousands of scrolls were lost in the 48 BCE burning of what Egyptian city’s library? (10[1])■END■ (10[2])

ANSWER: Alexandria [accept Library of Alexandria; accept Alexandrian Pleiad]
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Summary

2023 ACF Nationals04/22/2023Y21100%0%14%98.62

Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Raymond WangCornell AVirginia A5710
Arya KarthikGeorgia Tech AMIT A5710
Eve FleisigUC Berkeley AImperial A5710
Clark SmithOhio State AYale A5710
Anuttam RamjiUC Berkeley BColumbia A7110
Andrew HannaVanderbilt ARutgers A72-5
Justin ChenNYU ACornell B7710
Mitch McCullarIllinois AMichigan A7910
Walter ZhangBrown ANorthwestern A8010
Ned TagtmeierChicago APenn A8010
Ethan AshbrookMinnesota AHouston A8110
Tracy MirkinFlorida AToronto A9110
Matthew LehmannWUSTL ASouth Carolina A9910
Justin HawkinsIndiana AColumbia B10010
Caleb KendrickMaryland AHarvard A11110
Karsten RynearsonYale BPurdue A12410
Jerry LinDuke AChicago C12510
Morgan BozemanMinnesota BGeorgia Tech B126-5
Neal JoshiWUSTL BTexas A12710
Amogh KulkarniChicago BJohns Hopkins A12810
Jim FanNorth Carolina AIowa State A128-5
Guy IndoranteIowa State ANorth Carolina A15610
Darren PetrosinoRutgers AVanderbilt A15710
Tegan KapadiaGeorgia Tech BMinnesota B15710