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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