Question
In a novel set in the 1970s, the author of this poem sells his father’s corpse as fertilizer to a botanist raising carnivorous tulips. In an embedded story from this poem, the “Twelve of England” defend the honor of twelve ladies in a joust. This poem describes a cosmological system in which eleven concentric spheres surround the four elements, the “machine of the world.” In this poem, a trick played by the nymph Doris is recounted by a (*) stony monster that materializes out of a cloud. Venus prepares the “Isle of Love” to reward the protagonists of this poem, who escape the dangers posed by the jealous god Bacchus and the storm giant Adamastor. For 10 points, name this epic poem about the voyage of Vasco da Gama, a Portuguese national epic written by Luís de Camöes (ka-MOH-ezh). ■END■
Summary
2023 BHSU @ Northwestern | 02/25/2023 | Y | 6 | 100% | 17% | 0% | 90.83 |
2023 BHSU @ Maryland | 03/11/2023 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 103.67 |
2023 BHSU @ Berkeley | 03/18/2023 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 109.67 |
2023 BHSU @ Yale | 04/08/2023 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 89.00 |
2023 BHSU @ Waterloo | 04/15/2023 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 111.67 |
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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Ned Tagtmeier | Chicago A | Epic Games | 63 | 15 |
Jordan Brownstein | Maryland B- | Illinois A+ | 85 | 10 |
Clark Smith | OSU | WUSTL | 85 | 10 |
Rahul Keyal | Watching Arthur Delot-Vilain at Chicago Open Made Me Like French People Again | meet the new weird, same as the old weird | 85 | 10 |
Stephen Liu | [Insert Lawyer Joke Here] | Berkeley A | 86 | 10 |
Caleb Kendrick | Maryland A | Fan-tastic Negs and Where to Find Them | 91 | 10 |
Will Alston | Amartya Senpai Notice Me | Chicago B+ | 91 | 10 |
Taylor Harvey | Mojo Shojo | Northwestern | 91 | 10 |
Daniel Sheinberg | UG Championship Players (and Mazin) | Columbia B | 91 | 10 |
Adam Silverman | nats is supposed to mean you all have gone soft | Olmo (Bonus) Bagelry | 91 | 10 |
Tony Chen | The Passion According to C.H. | Neg 5! Playing Quizbowl, Liddy Style | 95 | 10 |
Ashish Subramanian | Glass Onyen: A Knives Out Mystery | The Perfection of Wisdom in 8,000 Negs | 110 | 10 |
Collin Ace | Rutgers Diaspora | Maryland B+ | 110 | 10 |
Anuttam Ramji | Berkeley B | Stanford B | 113 | 10 |
Ian Chow | Milan et al. | Cameron et al. | 113 | 10 |
Mattias Ehatamm | The Vulture's Guide to Buzz | Parth et al. | 127 | 10 |
Eric Wolfsberg | It's Joever | Stanford A | 130 | 10 |
Nolan Jones | Purdue | Maryland B- | 130 | 10 |