Question

The speaker of this poem declares, “Virgins have written some resplendent books” while trying to convince himself that a girl “may not be a beauty, but she’s cute.” (10[1])A dialogue between this poem’s speaker and his wife about the sound of the wind as they play chess is followed by (10[1])a Goethe reference in the line, “Who rides so late in the night and the wind? (10[1])/ It is the writer’s grief.” The speaker of this poem is raised by his Aunt Maud and falls in love with his future wife (10[1])on a high school field trip. After being abandoned on a blind date arranged by the typist Jane Dean, (10[1])the daughter (10[1])of this poem’s speaker drowns (10[1])in an icy (10[2])lake (10[1])in (10[1])a possible suicide. This poem was written in New Wye on 80 index cards and begins, (10[1])“I (10[1])was the shadow (10[1])of the (10[1])waxwing slain.” (10[3])For 10 (10[1])points, the fictional scholar Charles Kinbote (10[2])wrote a commentary (10[1])on what 999-line poem by John Shade that titles a novel by Vladimir Nabokov? ■END■

ANSWER: Pale Fire
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Summary

2023 ACF Nationals04/22/2023Y22100%0%0%120.41

Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Alana DickeyVirginia AIowa State A2710
Michał GerasimiukYale ATexas A4910
Eric WolfsbergStanford ABrown A6510
Darren PetrosinoRutgers AHouston A9010
Justin ChenNYU AClaremont A10910
Grace LiuMIT ADuke A11110
Henry CafaroChicago CFlorida B11610
Anuttam RamjiUC Berkeley BRutgers B11910
Amogh KulkarniChicago BUC Berkeley A11910
Wenying WuToronto AWUSTL A12010
William OrrYale BSouth Carolina A12110
Caleb KendrickMaryland AMinnesota A13710
Justin HawkinsIndiana APurdue A13810
Raymond WangCornell AJohns Hopkins A14110
Ned TagtmeierChicago AHarvard A14310
Jim FanNorth Carolina AImperial A14510
Aidan FeinVanderbilt APenn A14510
Todd MaslykMichigan APenn State A14510
Clark SmithOhio State AMcGill A14710
Tracy MirkinFlorida AColumbia B15310
Noah SheidlowerColumbia AWUSTL B15310
Morgan BozemanMinnesota BNorthwestern A15610