Question
This character avenges the death of his cousin Eanmund by killing Onela. The work in which this character appears ends by describing him as “the kindest to his people and keenest to win fame.” During a flyting contest with Unferth, this character claims that battling sea monsters caused him to lose a swimming contest with Breca. Wiglaf becomes king after this character is killed by a dragon. This character brings a severed arm to Hrothgar after killing the “demon” that terrorized the mead hall at Heorot. For 10 points, what Geatish warrior titles an Old English poem in which he fights the monster Grendel? ■END■
ANSWER: Beowulf
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Summary
2024 ACF Fall at Cornell | fall | Y | 10 | 100% | 0% | 20% | 70.30 |
2024 ACF Fall at Ohio State | fall | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 54.25 |
2024 ACF Fall at Washington | fall | Y | 1 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 47.00 |
2024 ACF Fall at Georgia | fall | Y | 12 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 57.58 |
2024 ACF Fall at North Carolina | fall | Y | 9 | 100% | 0% | 11% | 57.67 |
2024 ACF Fall at Claremont Colleges | fall | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 54.80 |
2024 ACF Fall at Rutgers | fall | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 52.38 |
2024 ACF Fall at Illinois | fall | Y | 9 | 100% | 0% | 11% | 54.44 |
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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Josh Schmidt | Liberty A | William & Mary | 33 | 10 |
Chase Barrick (DII) | Lehigh A (UG) | Rutgers B | 38 | 10 |
Alec Riso | Cornell D | Binghamton A | 39 | -5 |
Beckett Gilmore (DII) | Jefferson County Scholars (DII) | CWRU A (UG) | 39 | 10 |
Carter Pisocky (DII) | Michigan D (UG) | CWRU C (UG) | 39 | 10 |
Ethan Altshul | Emory A | Georgia Tech C | 39 | 10 |
Jeffery Xu | Georgia Tech D | Vanderbilt A | 39 | 10 |
Sean Jackson | South Carolina A | Auburn A | 39 | 10 |
Sean Jackson | South Carolina A | Auburn A | 39 | 10 |
Ethan Furman (DII) | Penn A (DII) | NYU B | 39 | 10 |
Jacob Puthipiroj | Northwestern A | Notre Dame A | 39 | -5 |
Will Hoover | RIT B | Cornell C | 41 | 10 |
Rachel Fanous (DII) | Michigan A (UG) | West Virginia B (UG) | 41 | 10 |
Olin Bose (DII) | Columbia A (UG) | Fordham A | 41 | 10 |
Noah McRedmond | Notre Dame B | Illinois D | 41 | 10 |
Alex Wyrick | Tennessee A | Alabama A | 42 | 10 |
Ethan Rehder | Duke B | UNC D | 42 | 10 |
Nick Smemoe | UNC B | Liberty C | 42 | 10 |
Abigail Zimmerman | Iowa B | Purdue B | 42 | 10 |
Eric Hu (DII) | Penn B (DII) | Bard A (UG) | 46 | 10 |
Anwitha Vempati | Iowa A | Purdue A | 46 | 10 |
Sonya Bates | UW Wrath | UBC A | 47 | 10 |
Connor Ronan | South Carolina B | Vanderbilt B | 47 | 10 |
Timothy Porter | VCU | Virginia Tech A | 48 | 10 |
Rahul Jogadhenu (DII) | UCLA C | USC | 48 | 10 |
Alan Kappler (DII) | Claremont C | UCLA E | 50 | 10 |
Amelia Dunkin | Chicago B | Notre Dame C | 50 | 10 |
Ben Kantsiper | James Madison B | Virginia Tech B | 52 | 10 |
Zaid Asif (DII) | NYU A (UG) | Lehigh B (DII) | 53 | 10 |
Theodor Martin | WashU B | Indiana | 53 | 10 |
Alex Wong (DII) | Rutgers A (UG) | Columbia J (DII) | 54 | 10 |
Azura Gollamudi | Northwestern B | Illinois C | 54 | 10 |
Danny Cutbill | RIT A | Syracuse | 55 | -5 |
Nayel Tekle | Cornell B | Binghamton B | 55 | 10 |
Cole Polley (UG) | Michigan B (UG) | Ohio State A (UG) | 55 | 10 |
Mac Dixon | Emory Oxford | Tennessee B | 55 | 10 |
Gavin Bramer | Appalachian State B | Duke A | 55 | 10 |
Daniel Tritasavit (DII) | UCLA D | Claremont B | 55 | 10 |
Jerry Xu (DII) | Claremont A | UCLA A | 55 | 10 |
Natalee Vernon (DII) | Miami C (DII) | Michigan State B | 56 | 10 |
Annabelle Ford | Cornell A | Cornell G | 58 | 10 |
Gary Wang | U of Rochester B | Penn State | 58 | 10 |
Gary Wang | U of Rochester B | Penn State | 58 | 10 |
Peter Zeng (DII) | Ohio State B (DII) | Michigan C | 58 | 10 |
Nathan Wodicka (UG) | Miami B (UG) | West Virginia A (UG) | 61 | 10 |
William Foster | Chicago A | WashU A | 61 | 10 |
Aaron Taylor | Mississippi State A | Auburn C | 66 | 10 |
John Gamble | NC State | Liberty B | 66 | -5 |
Cameron Wiliams | Appalachian State A | James Madison A | 66 | 10 |
Jacob Cohen (UG) | UCLA B | UCSD | 66 | 10 |
Anna Kuang | Cornell E | U of Rochester A | 69 | 10 |
Sophia Arnold | SIUE | Purdue C | 69 | 10 |
Daniel Kim (DII) | Maryland B (DII) | Princeton A (UG) | 72 | 10 |
TJ Pickering | Auburn B | Southern | 73 | 10 |
Maya Kvaratskhelia | Notre Dame A | Northwestern A | 74 | 10 |
Andy Yu (DII) | Maryland A (DII) | Columbia B | 76 | 10 |
Rafeed Rahman Turjya | Georgia A | Furman | 78 | 10 |
Shawn Richardson | Clemson B | Belmont | 78 | 10 |
Malachi Ledford | Tusculum | Virginia | 78 | 10 |
Riley Sherman | ESF | RIT C | 83 | 10 |
Elijah O'Sick Johnson | Binghamton C | Cornell F | 85 | 10 |
Anthony Yin (DII) | CWRU B (DII) | Ohio State C (DII) | 85 | 10 |
Alec West | Syracuse | RIT A | 93 | 10 |
Monish Jampala | Georgia Tech B | Clemson A | 96 | 10 |
Giuseppe Piccirilli | Binghamton A | Cornell D | 103 | 10 |
Miller Doerr | Liberty B | NC State | 103 | 10 |