Question
One of this author’s title characters holds on to the beard of a dwarf for three days in a bid to rescue his bride, who was abducted on their wedding night. Another of this author’s characters goes mad when Parasha’s home is destroyed in a flood, causing him to curse a statue. Vikram Seth’s novel The Golden Gate uses a type of stanza that this poet developed for a work whose title character rejects a love letter by a girl who later marries Prince Gremin. This poet of Ruslan and Ludmila used himself as a model for the character Lensky, who is killed in a duel by Tatiana’s love interest. For 10 points, name this Russian poet of “The Bronze Horseman” and Eugene Onegin. ■END■
ANSWER: Alexander Pushkin [or Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin]
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Summary
| 2024 ACF Fall at Cornell | fall | Y | 9 | 78% | 0% | 11% | 112.86 |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Ohio State | fall | Y | 7 | 86% | 0% | 29% | 96.17 |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Washington | fall | Y | 1 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 63.00 |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Georgia | fall | Y | 12 | 75% | 0% | 0% | 89.11 |
| 2024 ACF Fall at North Carolina | fall | Y | 7 | 57% | 0% | 29% | 98.00 |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Claremont Colleges | fall | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 88.80 |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Rutgers | fall | Y | 8 | 75% | 0% | 0% | 110.00 |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Illinois | fall | Y | 9 | 89% | 0% | 11% | 101.88 |
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| Jeffery Xu | Georgia Tech D | Vanderbilt A | 33 | 10 |
| Beckett Gilmore (DII) | Jefferson County Scholars (DII) | CWRU A (UG) | 52 | 10 |
| Kevin Zheng (UG) | Michigan A (UG) | West Virginia B (UG) | 52 | 10 |
| Josh Schmidt | Liberty A | William & Mary | 52 | 10 |
| Karthik Krishnamurthy (DII) | USC | UCLA C | 56 | 10 |
| Ivan Karp (UG) | UCLA B | UCSD | 62 | 10 |
| Tai Belke | UBC A | UW Wrath | 63 | 10 |
| Henry Bylinowski | Auburn A | South Carolina A | 65 | 10 |
| Henry Bylinowski | Auburn A | South Carolina A | 65 | 10 |
| David Mathew | Purdue A | Iowa A | 66 | 10 |
| Parker McCoig | Tennessee A | Alabama A | 76 | 10 |
| Ethan Altshul | Emory A | Georgia Tech C | 76 | 10 |
| Maya Kvaratskhelia | Notre Dame A | Northwestern A | 79 | 10 |
| Victor Bender | Penn State | U of Rochester B | 92 | 10 |
| Victor Bender | Penn State | U of Rochester B | 92 | 10 |
| Conner Yamnitz | WashU A | Chicago A | 92 | 10 |
| Karl Wang (DII) | UCLA A | Claremont A | 93 | 10 |
| Thomas Chen | Michigan C | Ohio State B (DII) | 98 | -5 |
| Jason Qin (DII) | Columbia J (DII) | Rutgers A (UG) | 98 | 10 |
| Andy Yu (DII) | Maryland A (DII) | Columbia B | 99 | 10 |
| Carter Pisocky (DII) | Michigan D (UG) | CWRU C (UG) | 105 | 10 |
| Sophia Madrazo | Purdue B | Iowa B | 105 | 10 |
| Yuki Brown (DII) | Miami B (UG) | West Virginia A (UG) | 107 | -5 |
| Timothy Porter | VCU | Virginia Tech A | 107 | 10 |
| Olin Bose (DII) | Columbia A (UG) | Fordham A | 107 | 10 |
| Elizabeth Bowling | Indiana | WashU B | 107 | -5 |
| Emmett Cho | Chicago B | Notre Dame C | 108 | 10 |
| Alec Riso | Cornell D | Binghamton A | 109 | -5 |
| Malachi Ledford | Tusculum | Virginia | 109 | 10 |
| Andrew Nucci (DII) | UCLA E | Claremont C | 109 | 10 |
| Ethan Furman (DII) | Penn A (DII) | NYU B | 109 | 10 |
| Alec West | Syracuse | RIT A | 112 | 10 |
| Samuel Miller | Liberty B | NC State | 115 | -5 |
| Alina Moore | Tennessee B | Emory Oxford | 116 | 10 |
| Matthew Lam (DII) | Ohio State A (UG) | Michigan B (UG) | 120 | 10 |
| Michael Eng | UNC D | Duke B | 120 | -5 |
| Davis Johnson | Purdue C | SIUE | 120 | 10 |
| Quinn Whitlow | Illinois D | Notre Dame B | 121 | 10 |
| Giuseppe Piccirilli | Binghamton A | Cornell D | 123 | 10 |
| Pranaav Senthilkumar | Cornell C | RIT B | 123 | 10 |
| Sawyer Smith | Mississippi State A | Auburn C | 123 | 10 |
| Greta Hong (DII) | Bard A (UG) | Penn B (DII) | 123 | 10 |
| Iris Liang | Cornell G | Cornell A | 124 | 0 |
| Anna Kuang | Cornell E | U of Rochester A | 124 | 10 |
| Bianca Van Zile | Binghamton B | Cornell B | 124 | 10 |
| Elijah O'Sick Johnson | Binghamton C | Cornell F | 124 | 0 |
| Kritanu Saha | Cornell A | Cornell G | 124 | 0 |
| Jonathan Zhang | Cornell F | Binghamton C | 124 | 0 |
| Brian Hoff | Cornell B | Binghamton B | 124 | 0 |
| Peter Zeng (DII) | Ohio State B (DII) | Michigan C | 124 | 10 |
| Caleb Thomas (DII) | Miami C (DII) | Michigan State B | 124 | 10 |
| Venkat Das (DII) | West Virginia A (UG) | Miami B (UG) | 124 | 0 |
| Justin Hetrick | Belmont | Clemson B | 124 | 0 |
| Hayes Brown | Furman | Georgia A | 124 | 10 |
| Akajiugo Amucheazi | Southern | Auburn B | 124 | 10 |
| Asheton Wilbanks | Clemson A | Georgia Tech B | 124 | 0 |
| James Zhao | Vanderbilt B | South Carolina B | 124 | 0 |
| Anna Hinkle | Georgia Tech B | Clemson A | 124 | 0 |
| John Mcqueen | South Carolina B | Vanderbilt B | 124 | 0 |
| John Shields | Clemson B | Belmont | 124 | 0 |
| John Gamble | NC State | Liberty B | 124 | 0 |
| Cameron Wiliams | Appalachian State A | James Madison A | 124 | 0 |
| Alexandra Knight | Liberty C | UNC B | 124 | 0 |
| Nick Smemoe | UNC B | Liberty C | 124 | 0 |
| Carly Hemani | James Madison A | Appalachian State A | 124 | 10 |
| Daniel Tritasavit (DII) | UCLA D | Claremont B | 124 | 10 |
| Rohit Chintala (DII) | Maryland B (DII) | Princeton A (UG) | 124 | 10 |
| Jack Stuhlman (DII) | Lehigh B (DII) | NYU A (UG) | 124 | 0 |
| Rishi Swaminathan (DII) | NYU A (UG) | Lehigh B (DII) | 124 | 0 |
| Jaden Bandy (DII) | Rutgers B | Lehigh A (UG) | 124 | 0 |
| Samay Math | WashU B | Indiana | 124 | 0 |
| Vikas Kothari | Northwestern B | Illinois C | 124 | 10 |
| Jack Piros | Illinois C | Northwestern B | 124 | 0 |