Question
In 2021, Jackie Kay was succeeded by Kathleen Jamie as the holder of a national title of this name. For 10 points each:
[10h] A “lament” by William Dunbar lists many fellow examples, including Robert Henryson and Blind Harry, of what traditional bards or poets?
ANSWER: makars (MAH-kur(s)) [accept makaris or "The Lament for the Makaris"]
[10e] The first “makar” lamented by Dunbar is this non-Scottish poet, the extremely influential Middle English author of the Canterbury Tales.
ANSWER: Geoffrey Chaucer
[10m] Edinburgh's Makars’ Court is paved with slabs displaying dozens of quotations from Scottish poets, including a couplet beginning “drums in the Walligate, pipes in the air” from this long poem by Hugh MacDiarmid.
ANSWER: “A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle”
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Summary
2023 BHSU @ Berkeley | 03/18/2023 | Y | 3 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
2023 BHSU @ Maryland | 03/11/2023 | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 33% | 33% |
2023 BHSU @ Northwestern | 02/25/2023 | Y | 6 | 15.00 | 100% | 33% | 17% |
2023 BHSU Online | 04/15/2023 | Y | 4 | 17.50 | 100% | 25% | 50% |
2023 BHSU @ Sheffield | 04/15/2023 | Y | 2 | 20.00 | 100% | 0% | 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% |
Data
Berkeley B | [Insert Lawyer Joke Here] | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
It's Joever | Berkeley A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Stanford A | Stanford B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Fan-tastic Negs and Where to Find Them | Glass Onyen: A Knives Out Mystery | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Maryland A | Rutgers Diaspora | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Maryland B+ | The Perfection of Wisdom in 8,000 Negs | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
WUSTL | Chicago A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Chicago B | Maryland B- | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Amartya Senpai Notice Me | Epic Games | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
Illinois A+ | Michigan | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
OSU | Mojo Shojo | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
Purdue | Northwestern | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Hutto Hippos | Cornell C++ | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Rollin in from Sturgis, The Cheyne Gang | Hutto Hippos | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
The Enrique Trastamara Military Academy B | Cornell B- | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
What is BH! And you are asking me? BHSU | Rollin in from Sturgis, The Cheyne Gang | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
Oxford Hornets | Broken Imperial Nomads | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
Magisters Ludi | Buzzers Karamazov | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
The Passion According to C.H. | Cameron et al. | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Neg 5! Playing Quizbowl, Liddy Style | The Vulture's Guide to Buzz | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Milan et al. | Parth et al. | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
meet the new weird, same as the old weird | Columbia B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
nats is supposed to mean you all have gone soft | UG Championship Players (and Mazin) | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
Olmo (Bonus) Bagelry | Watching Arthur Delot-Vilain at Chicago Open Made Me Like French People Again | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |