Krishna - 2023 BHSU - Buzzpoints App

Question

The speaker laments that this deity “has left me behind, he’s never returned, he’s never sent me a single word,” in a mystical poem addressed to him by the bhakti (“buck”-tee) poet Mirabai. For 10 points each:

[10e] Name this deity, who converses with Arjuna in the Bhagavad Gita (BHUH-guh-vudd GEE-tah).

ANSWER: Krishna [prompt on Vishnu]

[10h] The speaker of this Bengali poem claims to be “the flute in the hands of Krishna” and “the ruthless axe” of Parashurama (PUH-ruh-shoo-rah-muh). Written in 1921, this poem ends as the speaker raises his head “high, ever erect and alone!”

ANSWER: “The Rebel” [or “Bidrohi”] (by Kazi Nazrul Islam)

[10m] Laila undertakes a spiritual journey after seeing a “Krishna Lila” in Journey to Ithaca, a novel by this author of Clear Light of Day and Fasting, Feasting.

ANSWER: Anita Desai [prompt on Desai]

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Summary


2023 BHSU @ Berkeley	03/18/2023	Y	3	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2023 BHSU @ Maryland	03/11/2023	Y	3	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2023 BHSU @ Northwestern	02/25/2023	Y	6	21.67	100%	67%	50%
2023 BHSU Online	04/15/2023	Y	4	20.00	100%	50%	50%
2023 BHSU @ Sheffield	04/15/2023	Y	2	25.00	100%	50%	100%
2023 BHSU @ Waterloo	04/15/2023	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
2023 BHSU @ Yale	04/08/2023	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at Duke	Emory, Duke, Yale	N	4	12.50	100%	25%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at Emory	Emory, Duke, Yale	N	4	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at Imperial	Imperial	N	5	14.00	80%	40%	20%
2023 ARCADIA at Maryland	Maryland, Online	N	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at Ohio State	Ohio State, Texas	N	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%
2023 ARCADIA Online	Maryland, Online	N	3	23.33	100%	67%	67%
2023 ARCADIA at Texas	Ohio State, Texas	N	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
2023 BHSU @ Northwestern	02/25/2023	N	6	11.67	50%	50%	17%

Data


Berkeley A	Berkeley B	10	0	10	20
Stanford A	[Insert Lawyer Joke Here]	10	0	10	20
It's Joever	Stanford B	10	0	10	20
Rutgers Diaspora	Fan-tastic Negs and Where to Find Them	10	0	10	20
Glass Onyen: A Knives Out Mystery	Maryland B+	10	0	10	20
The Perfection of Wisdom in 8,000 Negs	Maryland A	10	0	10	20
Amartya Senpai Notice Me	Purdue	10	0	10	20
Michigan	Chicago A	10	10	0	20
Epic Games	Maryland B-	10	0	10	20
Mojo Shojo	Illinois	10	10	10	30
OSU	Northwestern	10	10	10	30
Chicago B	WUSTL	10	0	0	10
Cornell C++	What is BH! And you are asking me? BHSU	10	10	10	30
Houston and Friends	Cornell B-	10	0	0	10
Hutto Hippos	Rollin in from Sturgis, The Cheyne Gang	10	10	10	30
Dr. Christopher Manners, MD – Samarra, Iraq	The Enrique Trastamara Military Academy B	10	0	0	10
Broken Imperial Nomads	Magisters Ludi	10	10	10	30
Buzzers Karamazov	Oxford Hornets	10	10	0	20
Cameron et al.	Neg 5! Playing Quizbowl, Liddy Style	10	0	0	10
The Passion According to C.H.	Parth et al.	10	0	10	20
The Vulture's Guide to Buzz	Milan et al.	10	0	0	10
UG Championship Players (and Mazin)	Watching Arthur Delot-Vilain at Chicago Open Made Me Like French People Again	10	0	0	10
meet the new weird, same as the old weird	Olmo Bagelry	10	0	0	10
nats is supposed to mean you all have gone soft	Columbia B	10	0	10	20