Question
In “The Rhodora” (“roh-DOR-uh”), Ralph Waldo Emerson stated that “beauty is its own excuse for” this specific action. The last stanza of Archibald MacLeish’s poem “Ars Poetica” claims that poems “should not mean, but” do this action. In “The Emperor of Ice Cream,” Wallace Stevens asks to allow this action to act as “finale of seem.” This verb occurs in the usual title of a passage that mentions “the (*) undiscovered country, from whose bourn no traveller returns.” In that speech whose usual title contains this verb, the speaker wonders if keeping his “mortal coil” is worth suffering “the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune.” For 10 points, name this short verb which the protagonist ponders whether to do or not to do in Hamlet. ■END■
ANSWER: be [or being or to be; accept “To be or not to be”; reject other word forms like "am" or "is" or "are"]
<Chauncey Lo, Literature - World and Miscellaneous> ~21086~ <Editor: Joseph Krol>
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Summary
2023 PACE NSC | 06/10/2023 | Y | 35 | 100% | 40% | 0% | 81.09 |
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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Isaac McCollum | Hoover B | Moberly | 16 | 20 |
Arthur Gayden | Detroit Country Day | Mira Loma | 16 | 20 |
Cindy Gao | Belmont | Winston Churchill A | 16 | 20 |
Nathan Wu | Plymouth | Woodland | 16 | 20 |
Charles Young | Barrington A | Detroit Catholic Central A | 21 | 20 |
Puna Ekka | New Brighton | Parkway West | 26 | 20 |
Sam Asplund | Winnebago | Midtown | 32 | 20 |
Rachel Ezrielev | Richard Montgomery | Rockford Auburn A | 32 | 20 |
Omkar Marathe | William Fremd | Johns Creek A | 33 | 20 |
Braden Booth | Dallas County | Thomas Jefferson B | 35 | 20 |
Matthew Kohn | Hunter A | Solon | 54 | 20 |
Joy An | Choate Rosemary Hall | Maggie Walker C | 56 | 20 |
Krish Chinta | Innovation Academy A | Hinsdale Central | 57 | 0 |
Ella Sheffield | Mercer County | Detroit Catholic Central C | 60 | 20 |
Russell Dillak | Northmont B | Saint Joseph | 67 | 20 |
Aditya Shivaswamy | St. Mark's | Dunbar | 95 | 10 |
Ali Hamzeh | Kinkaid | Troy | 95 | 10 |
Riona Duncan | Walter Payton | Northmont A | 97 | 10 |
Elliott Lee | Thomas Jefferson A | Canyon Crest | 99 | 10 |
Moxie Strom | Hunter B | Norman | 105 | 10 |
Stella Broome | Maggie Walker B | Innovation Academy B | 105 | 10 |
Aryan Pathak | Lake Highland | Norris | 107 | 10 |
Timothy Porter | Maggie Walker A | University Lab | 107 | 10 |
Kaiwen Xiao | Irvington A | Chattahoochee B | 113 | 10 |
Owen Gibbs | Heights | Carbondale | 116 | 0 |
Camden Williams | Mexico | Winston Churchill B | 116 | 10 |
Brandon Torres | Carl Sandburg | Stevenson A | 116 | 10 |
Jiming Chen | Hinsdale Central | Innovation Academy A | 116 | 10 |
Alan Fan | Thomas Jefferson D | Thomas Jefferson C | 118 | 10 |
Brodie Henry | West Point | Rockford Auburn B | 118 | 10 |
Lucas Jraiche | Detroit Catholic Central B | Belvidere | 120 | 10 |
Adam Hartz | John Adams B | Elkhorn North | 120 | 10 |
Clete Reinberger | Cincinnati Hills Christian | Washington | 121 | 10 |
Rohan Dalal | Johns Creek B | Barrington B | 122 | 10 |
Felix Sacks | Lincoln-Way East | Chattahoochee A | 122 | 10 |
Johnathon Franke Gordon | Stevenson B | John Adams A | 122 | 0 |
Tony Han | Carbondale | Heights | 123 | 10 |
Max Kolda | John Adams A | Stevenson B | 123 | 10 |