Question
The speaker of a poem meets one of these animals which sets its “traps / In the midst of dreams" and is a "Prince" named Berserk. In another poem, the shadow of one of these animals crosses "barbaric glass" and traces an "indecipherable cause." A “bronze rain . . . marks the death of summer” in a poem which is an “Invective Against” these animals. The speaker knows “noble accents / and lucid, inescapable rhythms” in a poem titled for these animals which compares the “beauty of (*) inflections” and “innuendoes.” In that poem, the ■END■
ANSWER: birds [or blackbirds; or peacocks; or swans; accept "Anecdote of the Prince of Peacocks" or "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird" or “Invective Against Swans”; reject other specific types of birds]
<Yingzhi Nyang, Literature - American - Poetry> ~26020~ <Editor: Chandler West>
= Average correct buzz position
Summary
| 2023 PACE NSC | 06/10/2023 | Y | 34 | 94% | 26% | 0% | 98.03 |
Buzzes
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chris Yoo | Thomas Jefferson B | Washington | 30 | 0 |
| Cindy Gao | Belmont | Canyon Crest | 40 | 20 |
| Monit Karmaker | Stevenson A | Moberly | 41 | 0 |
| Rachel Ezrielev | Richard Montgomery | Northmont A | 41 | 20 |
| Elliott Lee | Thomas Jefferson A | Woodland | 42 | 20 |
| Omkar Marathe | William Fremd | Hunter B | 43 | 20 |
| Dominic Apap | Detroit Catholic Central B | John Adams B | 43 | 20 |
| Camden Williams | Mexico | Lincoln-Way East | 43 | 0 |
| Sinecio Morales | Rockford Auburn A | Maggie Walker A | 62 | 20 |
| Braden Booth | Dallas County | Johns Creek B | 64 | 20 |
| Ali Hamzeh | Kinkaid | Choate Rosemary Hall | 73 | 20 |
| Kyunghwan Lim | Chattahoochee A | West Point | 73 | 20 |
| Kaiwen Xiao | Irvington A | Hunter A | 87 | 0 |
| Riona Duncan | Walter Payton | Northmont B | 87 | 10 |
| Arjun Kala | University Lab | Heights | 89 | 10 |
| Krish Chinta | Innovation Academy A | St. Mark's | 89 | 0 |
| Ella Sheffield | Mercer County | Stevenson B | 89 | 10 |
| Nathan Wu | Plymouth | Thomas Jefferson C | 89 | 10 |
| Rohan Kher | Barrington A | Dunbar | 89 | 10 |
| Owen Arneson | Parkway West | Detroit Country Day | 89 | 0 |
| Sean Lee | Chattahoochee B | Detroit Catholic Central C | 89 | 0 |
| Rohan Navaneetha | Solon | Maggie Walker B | 97 | 10 |
| Tanay Bodducherla | Mira Loma | Thomas Jefferson D | 97 | 0 |
| Sam Asplund | Winnebago | Johns Creek A | 100 | 10 |
| Yashwanth Bajji | Troy | Innovation Academy B | 100 | 10 |
| Alvin Guo | Winston Churchill A | Rockford Auburn B | 101 | 10 |
| Waverly O'Malley | Carl Sandburg | Maggie Walker C | 102 | 10 |
| Eleanor Heydt | Midtown | Carbondale | 112 | 10 |
| Arthur Gayden | Detroit Country Day | Parkway West | 114 | 10 |
| Will Carstens | Detroit Catholic Central A | Belvidere | 118 | 10 |
| Clete Reinberger | Cincinnati Hills Christian | Winston Churchill B | 129 | 10 |
| Kaitlyn Leonard | Barrington B | Norman | 135 | 10 |
| Jiming Chen | Hinsdale Central | Waukee | 135 | 10 |
| Joseph Harrison | Detroit Catholic Central C | Chattahoochee B | 138 | 10 |
| Chris Goff | Moberly | Stevenson A | 138 | 0 |
| Felix Sacks | Lincoln-Way East | Mexico | 138 | 10 |
| C. Schenkel | Washington | Thomas Jefferson B | 138 | 10 |
| Michael Camilleri | John Adams A | Norris | 139 | 0 |
| Jacob Hardin-Bernhardt | Hunter A | Irvington A | 139 | 10 |
| Aditya Shivaswamy | St. Mark's | Innovation Academy A | 139 | 10 |
| Thomas Colgan | Norris | John Adams A | 139 | 10 |
| Isaac McCollum | Hoover B | Saint Joseph | 139 | 10 |