Question
A character created by this author sings an autumn song and complains to a professor about miners digging in the dark. In a play by this author, a boy who talks to a gaffer about the Isle of Parrots doesn’t want to be shut up with books and asks a dairyman to teach him to sell curds. The speaker of a poem by this author describes a place “[w]here the world has not been broken up into fragments” and “the clear stream of reason has not lost its way.” This author wrote about Nandini in Red Oleanders and about the fantasies of the sick Amal in the play The Post Office. The speaker of a poem by this author compares himself to “This frail vessel thou emptiest again and again” and declares “Thou hast made me endless, such is thy pleasure.” For 10 points, name this Bengali author of Gitanjali. ■END■
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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William Orr | Yale A | Columbia B | 73 | 10 |
Nathan Zhang | Cornell C | Rutgers A | 76 | 10 |
Eshan Pant | NYU A | Columbia A | 85 | 10 |
Alex Moon | Penn A | Princeton A | 100 | -5 |
Ethan Furman | Haverford | Yale B | 140 | -5 |
Jupiter Ding | Princeton B | NYU B | 150 | 0 |
Austin Guo | Princeton A | Penn A | 150 | 10 |
Andrew Minagar | Yale B | Haverford | 150 | 10 |