“Mi último adiós” - 2023 ARCADIA

Question

This poem was legendarily hidden inside an alcohol stove and smuggled out of its author's prison cell the day before his execution. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this poem whose speaker calls their country “my adored Land, region of the sun caressed” and proclaims “to die is to rest” after saying goodbye to their loved ones.

ANSWER: “Mi último adiós” [or “My Last Farewell”]

[10m] “Mi último adiós” was written by this poet who wrote about the “fair hope of my fatherland” in “To the Philippine Youth.” This author wrote about the mestizo Crisóstomo Ibarra in Noli Me Tángere.

ANSWER: José Rizal [or José Protasio Rizal Mercado y Alonso Realonda]

[10e] Rizal is often falsely attributed as the writer of “Sa Aking Mga Kabata,” which calls for the usage of this language of the Philippines. Rizal wrote mostly in Spanish instead of this native language of a namesake ethnic group.

ANSWER: Tagalog [accept Filipino]

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Summary


2023 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley	Premiere	Y	2	20.00	100%	50%	50%
2023 ARCADIA at Carleton University	Premiere	Y	1	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at Claremont Colleges	Premiere	Y	1	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at Duke	Emory, Duke, Yale	Y	2	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at Emory	Emory, Duke, Yale	Y	4	12.50	100%	25%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at Imperial	Imperial	Y	5	16.00	100%	60%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at Indiana	Premiere	Y	4	20.00	100%	75%	25%
2023 ARCADIA at Maryland	Maryland, Online	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at Ohio State	Ohio State, Texas	Y	1	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2023 ARCADIA Online	Maryland, Online	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at RIT	Premiere	Y	1	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at Texas	Ohio State, Texas	Y	2	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at WUSTL	Premiere	Y	3	10.00	100%	0%	0%

Data


Berkeley C	Berkeley B	0	0	10	10
Berkeley A	Stanford A	10	10	10	30
Ottawa B	McDouble West-Carleton	0	0	10	10
I will play anything with a buzzer in front of me	Auxiliary Lofthouse Cookie University	0	10	10	20
South Carolina A	James Madison B	0	10	10	20
North Carolina B	NC State	0	10	10	20
Georgia A	Emory A	0	0	10	10
Georgia B	Georgia Tech A	0	0	10	10
Georgia Tech C	Georgia Tech D	0	10	10	20
Georgia Tech B	Tennessee A	0	0	10	10
Cambridge A	Birmingham	0	10	10	20
Edinburgh	Oxford	0	10	10	20
Durham	Imperial A	0	10	10	20
Cambridge B	Imperial B	0	0	10	10
Bristol	Warwick	0	0	10	10
Chicago A	Vanderbilt	0	10	10	20
Indiana	Chicago B	0	10	10	20
Illinois A	Illinois B	10	10	10	30
Notre Dame B	Purdue A	0	0	10	10
Maryland A	George Washington A	0	0	10	10
Georgetown	Johns Hopkins	0	0	10	10
Kenyon B	Michigan A	0	0	10	10
Texas A	HCC	0	10	10	20
Texas C	TAMU	0	10	10	20
Missouri B	Squidward Community College	0	0	10	10
WUSTL H2O	Missouri A	0	0	10	10
SIUE	WUSTL XYZ	0	0	10	10
Arizona State	Ganon Evans Fan Club	0	0	10	10
Farrellmagnetism	Boston College	0	10	10	20
Cornell MATLAB	Cornell R	0	10	10	20