Most scholars have rejected that this author wrote the Genesis-inspired narrative poem Joseph and Zuleika. In a poem by this author, a man fights a wolf, lion, and dragon in an attempt to save his sisters from the Brazen Fortress. This poet's biographer Arudi claimed a well-wisher destroyed all but six lines of a satire he wrote about a sultan. In a poem by this author, a character dangles meat above eagles while on a (*) flying throne to reach heaven. Siyâvash rides through a mountain of fire to prove Sudabeh wrong in a poem by this author, in which the cow-headed Fereydun defeats King Zahhak. That epic by this author, in which Zal is raised by the Simurgh, discusses the decline of the Sassanids through the story of Rostam and Sohrab. For 10 points, name this author who wrote the poem Shahnameh, the national epic of Iran. ■END■
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| Sarod Nori | Cornell A | Cornell B | 79 | -5 |
| Jisoo Yoo | Texas A | Oklahoma A | 81 | 10 |
| Daoud Jackson | Broken Hearts | Foucault's Penndulum | 85 | 10 |
| Henry Atkins | Library of Babel School of Continuing Studies | Toronto Weary | 88 | -5 |
| Ben Russell Jones | Four Neg Omelette | Scottish, Irish, Both or Neither | 89 | 10 |
| Jerry Vinokurov | John Jay A | Swarthmore | 89 | 10 |
| Moses Kitakule | Columbia A | UMD A | 100 | 10 |
| Omer Keskin | Betrayed by Rita Izzatdust | 10 Negs that Shook the Quiz | 101 | 10 |
| Munir Siddiqui | UMD B | Pitt | 104 | 10 |
| Micah Colman | Waterloo Miku | Toronto Joy | 104 | 10 |
| Jason Hong | Brown | Tufts | 104 | 10 |
| Eshan Pant | NYU | JHU A | 104 | 10 |
| Ben Beardsley | Old London Town | Edinburgh | 105 | -5 |
| Jim Fan | UNC B | USC B | 110 | 10 |
| Vincent Du | UNC A | Duke A | 117 | 10 |
| Khushi Umarwadia | USC A | UNC C | 117 | 10 |
| Adam Jones | 3HK1MM | Yes, Moderator | 117 | 10 |
| Aum Mundhe | Rutgers | Columbia B | 120 | 10 |
| Eli Issokson | Brandeis | Harvard | 123 | 10 |
| Ian Chow | La Clique du Château | Waterloo Hatsune | 127 | 10 |
| Khanh Nguyen | Florida B | FSU B | 130 | 10 |
| Rahul Kumar | Rice | Texas B | 136 | -5 |
| Raymond Chen | Toronto Rofl | Mixed-Affiliated Contingency, Off the Team & Absent: Wong, Adrian | 140 | 10 |
| Katherine Lei | MIT | Boston College | 141 | -5 |
| Ryan Humphrey | Texas B | Rice | 146 | 10 |
| Nathan Zhang | Cornell B | Cornell A | 146 | 10 |
| Sky Li | Toronto Weary | Library of Babel School of Continuing Studies | 147 | 10 |
| Parth Jagtap | Edinburgh | Old London Town | 147 | 10 |
| Alejandro Valdivia | FSU A | Florida A | 147 | 10 |
| James Mangraviti | Boston College | MIT | 147 | 0 |
| Cade Reinberger | RIT | JHU B | 147 | 0 |
| Jeevika Setzer | JHU B | RIT | 147 | 0 |