Question
A poem describes how these animals “sink downward to darkness” after a woman gets a vision of Christ in Palestine. A poem titled for these animals describes these animals “giving their bland motions to the air.” In addition to that “Invective Against [these animals],” a poem describes how “the only moving thing was the eye” of one of these animals. One of these general animals titles an autobiography about growing up in Stamps, Arkansas. For 10 points, a Wallace Stevens poem describes “Thirteen Ways of Looking” at what animals, another of which is “caged” and “sings” in the title of a Maya Angelou autobiography? ■END■
ANSWER: birds [accept blackbirds or swans or pigeons; accept “Invective Against Swans”; accept “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird”] (The poem in the first line is “Sunday Morning”.)
<American Literature>
= Average correct buzz position
Summary
| 2024 ACF Fall at Cornell | fall | Y | 9 | 100% | 0% | 22% | 88.33 |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Ohio State | fall | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 66.63 |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Washington | fall | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 74.83 |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Georgia | fall | Y | 12 | 100% | 0% | 8% | 65.58 |
| 2024 ACF Fall at North Carolina | fall | Y | 9 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 80.67 |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Claremont Colleges | fall | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 74.00 |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Rutgers | fall | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 13% | 79.38 |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Illinois | fall | Y | 9 | 100% | 0% | 22% | 82.67 |
Buzzes
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Henry Bylinowski | Auburn A | Tennessee B | 19 | 10 |
| Amelia Dunkin | Chicago B | Illinois A | 19 | -5 |
| Beckett Gilmore (DII) | Jefferson County Scholars (DII) | Miami C (DII) | 26 | 10 |
| Anne Fjeld | Alberta | Boise State | 26 | 10 |
| Mac Dixon | Emory Oxford | Belmont | 28 | 10 |
| Jason Qin (DII) | Columbia J (DII) | NYU A (UG) | 52 | 10 |
| Braeden Laroche | South Carolina A | Clemson B | 54 | 10 |
| Brielle Rach | Iowa A | Illinois D | 54 | 10 |
| Andrew Nucci (DII) | UCLA E | USC | 55 | 10 |
| Jeffery Xu | Georgia Tech D | South Carolina B | 56 | 10 |
| Orion Keller | Virginia Tech A | Liberty C | 56 | 10 |
| Anna Kuang | Cornell E | Cornell B | 57 | 10 |
| Peter Zeng (DII) | Ohio State B (DII) | Michigan State A | 57 | 10 |
| Ethan Furman (DII) | Penn A (DII) | Maryland A (DII) | 57 | 10 |
| Pranav Johti | Georgia Tech A | Clemson A | 58 | 10 |
| Lucas Gagen (DII) | Miami A (UG) | CWRU C (UG) | 59 | 10 |
| Rahul Jogadhenu (DII) | UCLA C | Claremont A | 59 | 10 |
| Azura Gollamudi | Northwestern B | WashU A | 59 | -5 |
| Towery McNeil | Mississippi State A | Furman | 70 | 10 |
| Towery McNeil | Mississippi State A | Furman | 70 | 10 |
| Alec Riso | Cornell D | Cornell G | 72 | -5 |
| Matthew Kelley (DII) | Michigan D (UG) | Ohio State A (UG) | 72 | 10 |
| Cameron Wiliams | Appalachian State A | NC State | 73 | 10 |
| Alex Wong (DII) | Rutgers A (UG) | Rowan A (DII) | 73 | 10 |
| Trenton Burgess | Indiana | Notre Dame C | 73 | 10 |
| Maya Kvaratskhelia | Notre Dame A | WashU B | 73 | 10 |
| Mac Dixon | Emory Oxford | Georgia Tech C | 74 | 10 |
| Cara Monroe (DII) | Miami B (UG) | Michigan C | 76 | 10 |
| Simarya Ahuja | UW Pride | Arizona State A | 76 | 10 |
| Tai Belke | UBC A | Arizona State B | 76 | 10 |
| Arhith Dharanendra | Georgia Tech E | Georgia Tech B | 76 | 10 |
| Timothy Porter | VCU | Virginia | 76 | 10 |
| Euan McCubbin | UW Chastity | UW Lust | 77 | 10 |
| Alec West | Syracuse | Binghamton B | 78 | 10 |
| Zoe Brennan | Virginia Tech B | UNC D | 78 | 10 |
| Waverly O'Malley | Iowa B | Northwestern A | 78 | 10 |
| Nidhi Kundargi (DII) | Michigan State B | West Virginia A (UG) | 79 | 10 |
| Grace Wang (UG) | UCSD | Claremont B | 79 | 10 |
| Noah McRedmond | Notre Dame B | SIUE | 79 | 10 |
| Claire Wang | RIT C | Cornell A | 80 | -5 |
| Brady Hagan (DII) | Ohio State C (DII) | West Virginia B (UG) | 80 | 10 |
| Olin Bose (DII) | Columbia A (UG) | Penn B (DII) | 80 | 10 |
| Daniel Tritasavit (DII) | UCLA D | UCLA A | 82 | 10 |
| Britton Webster | Alabama A | Auburn B | 83 | 10 |
| Jonah Chancio | James Madison A | James Madison B | 83 | 10 |
| Cole Polley (UG) | Michigan B (UG) | CWRU B (DII) | 84 | 10 |
| Pranaav Senthilkumar | Cornell C | Cornell F | 85 | 10 |
| Malachi Ledford | Tusculum | Appalachian State B | 85 | 10 |
| Rohit Chintala (DII) | Maryland B (DII) | Bard A (UG) | 85 | 10 |
| Anila Moparthi | Illinois B | Purdue B | 85 | 10 |
| Yuxuan Lu | Vanderbilt A | Vanderbilt B | 86 | -5 |
| Koji Bilbao | Duke A | William & Mary | 86 | 10 |
| Max Khurzman | UNC A | Liberty B | 87 | 10 |
| Alexandra Duan (DII) | Columbia B | Lehigh A (UG) | 88 | -5 |
| Will Hoover | RIT B | Penn State | 94 | 10 |
| Iris Liang | Cornell G | Cornell D | 95 | 10 |
| Reese Powell | Cornell A | RIT C | 95 | 10 |
| Aidan Craner | U of Rochester A | RIT A | 95 | 10 |
| Dylan Bianchi | UW Greed | UW Sloth | 95 | 10 |
| Brandon Hunt | Auburn C | Georgia A | 95 | 10 |
| Jacob Cohen (UG) | UCLA B | Claremont C | 95 | 10 |
| Lucas Shedlock (UG) | Princeton A (UG) | Fordham A | 95 | 10 |
| Rico-Ian Banting (UG) | NYU B | Rutgers B | 95 | 10 |
| Davis Johnson | Purdue C | Illinois C | 95 | 10 |
| Giuseppe Piccirilli | Binghamton A | ESF | 98 | 10 |
| Sammy Carstens | U of Rochester B | Binghamton C | 98 | 10 |
| Chase Barrick (DII) | Lehigh A (UG) | Columbia B | 98 | 10 |
| Rosie Zhang | UW Wrath | UW Envy | 99 | 10 |
| Soren Heydari | UNC C | Duke B | 102 | 10 |
| Sam Alahi | Illinois A | Chicago B | 103 | 10 |
| Colin Vess | Vanderbilt B | Vanderbilt A | 104 | 10 |
| Conner Yamnitz | WashU A | Northwestern B | 104 | 10 |