Question
A parody of this poem containing the line “a typist is laid, a record is played” was written by Wendy Cope. This poem uses “the rattle of bones, and chuckle spread from ear to ear” to modify a line from “To His Coy Mistress.” This poem quotes the Cumaean Sibyl’s line “I want to die” in its epigraph. In this poem, Lil’s conversation about her husband Albert is interrupted by the phrase “HURRY UP PLEASE IT’S TIME.” This poem’s sections include “A Game of Chess,” “What the Thunder Said,” and “The Fire Sermon,” which ends with the prayer, “shantih, shantih, shantih.” For 10 points, “April is the cruelest month” begins what long poem by T.S. Eliot? ■END■
ANSWER: “The Waste Land”
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Summary
2024 ACF Fall at Cornell | fall | Y | 8 | 88% | 0% | 25% | 100.14 |
2024 ACF Fall at Ohio State | fall | Y | 8 | 88% | 0% | 13% | 76.14 |
2024 ACF Fall at Washington | fall | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 87.67 |
2024 ACF Fall at Georgia | fall | Y | 12 | 92% | 0% | 25% | 94.27 |
2024 ACF Fall at North Carolina | fall | Y | 9 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 92.11 |
2024 ACF Fall at Claremont Colleges | fall | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 20% | 102.40 |
2024 ACF Fall at Rutgers | fall | Y | 8 | 88% | 0% | 0% | 86.86 |
2024 ACF Fall at Illinois | fall | Y | 9 | 100% | 0% | 11% | 89.89 |
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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Kevin Zheng (UG) | Michigan A (UG) | Michigan B (UG) | 15 | 10 |
Rahul Jogadhenu (DII) | UCLA C | Claremont B | 44 | -5 |
Beckett Gilmore (DII) | Jefferson County Scholars (DII) | Michigan C | 50 | -5 |
Jeffery Xu | Georgia Tech D | Georgia Tech E | 54 | 10 |
Jude Mejia-Vazquez | RIT C | Binghamton C | 56 | -5 |
Brian Hoff | Cornell B | U of Rochester A | 57 | 10 |
Henry Bylinowski | Auburn A | Tennessee A | 57 | -5 |
Olin Bose (DII) | Columbia A (UG) | Columbia J (DII) | 61 | 10 |
Noa Schmueli (UG) | Columbia B | NYU A (UG) | 66 | 10 |
Ethan Furman (DII) | Penn A (DII) | Penn B (DII) | 68 | 10 |
Maya Kvaratskhelia | Notre Dame A | Notre Dame C | 68 | 10 |
Nidhi Kundargi (DII) | Michigan State B | Michigan State A | 72 | 10 |
Josh Schmidt | Liberty A | Duke A | 73 | 10 |
Pranav Johti | Georgia Tech A | South Carolina A | 74 | 10 |
Alec West | Syracuse | Binghamton A | 76 | 10 |
Angelo Pan (UG) | CWRU C (UG) | Ohio State A (UG) | 76 | 10 |
Peter Zeng (DII) | Ohio State B (DII) | Miami B (UG) | 76 | 10 |
Beck Faletti | UW Gluttony | Alberta | 76 | 10 |
Hayes Brown | Furman | Alabama A | 76 | -5 |
Mac Dixon | Emory Oxford | Vanderbilt A | 76 | 10 |
Parker McCoig | Tennessee A | Auburn A | 76 | 10 |
Nick Smemoe | UNC B | VCU | 76 | 10 |
Orion Keller | Virginia Tech A | Tusculum | 76 | 10 |
Andy Yu (DII) | Maryland A (DII) | Fordham A | 76 | 10 |
Quinn Whitlow | Illinois D | Illinois C | 76 | 10 |
Noah McRedmond | Notre Dame B | Purdue A | 76 | 10 |
Carter Pisocky (DII) | Michigan D (UG) | West Virginia B (UG) | 78 | 10 |
James O'Reilly | Arizona State B | UW Envy | 79 | 10 |
Tai Belke | UBC A | Boise State | 79 | 10 |
Luke Strole | UW Pride | UW Chastity | 84 | 10 |
Emmett Cho | Chicago B | Purdue B | 84 | 10 |
Ethan Altshul | Emory A | Georgia Tech B | 86 | 10 |
Cameron Wiliams | Appalachian State A | James Madison B | 87 | 10 |
Carson Kessler | UW Lust | Arizona State A | 92 | 10 |
Jonas Goodwin | NC State | UNC D | 92 | 10 |
Soren Heydari | UNC C | UNC A | 92 | 10 |
Alex Chen (DII) | Claremont C | UCLA D | 92 | 10 |
Karthik Krishnamurthy (DII) | USC | UCLA A | 98 | 10 |
David Zhang | Illinois B | Indiana | 98 | 10 |
Waverly O'Malley | Iowa B | WashU B | 98 | -5 |
Conner Yamnitz | WashU A | Purdue C | 98 | 10 |
Vivian Fan (DII) | Claremont A | UCSD | 99 | 10 |
Jacob Puthipiroj | Northwestern A | Illinois A | 99 | 10 |
Varun Venkatagiri | Georgia A | Clemson B | 100 | 10 |
Brielle Rach | Iowa A | Chicago A | 100 | 10 |
Will Hoover | RIT B | Cornell C | 107 | 10 |
Colin Vess | Vanderbilt B | Auburn C | 107 | 10 |
Alec Riso | Cornell D | Cornell E | 108 | -5 |
Lucas Gagen (DII) | Miami A (UG) | CWRU B (DII) | 108 | 10 |
Henry Nonnemaker (DII) | CWRU A (UG) | West Virginia A (UG) | 108 | 10 |
Miller Doerr | Liberty B | James Madison A | 108 | 10 |
Ivan Karp (UG) | UCLA B | UCLA E | 108 | 10 |
Jaden Bandy (DII) | Rutgers B | Lehigh A (UG) | 108 | 10 |
Samuel Li | William & Mary | Liberty C | 109 | 10 |
Sam Hewitt | WashU B | Iowa B | 110 | 10 |
Annabelle Ford | Cornell A | ESF | 113 | 10 |
Connor Ronan | South Carolina B | Mississippi State A | 113 | -5 |
John Shelly (DII) | Rowan A (DII) | NYU B | 114 | 10 |
Adam Hermann (DII) | Claremont B | UCLA C | 115 | 10 |
Kevin Liu (DII) | Maryland B (DII) | Bard A (UG) | 115 | 10 |
Anna Kuang | Cornell E | Cornell D | 116 | 10 |
Iris Liang | Cornell G | U of Rochester B | 116 | 10 |
Tom Scheri | RIT A | Binghamton B | 116 | 10 |
Stella Brown | UW Sloth | UBC B | 116 | 10 |
TJ Pickering | Auburn B | Georgia Tech C | 116 | 0 |
Britton Webster | Alabama A | Furman | 116 | 10 |
Aaryan Tomar | Georgia Tech C | Auburn B | 116 | 0 |
Towery McNeil | Mississippi State A | South Carolina B | 116 | 10 |
Justin Hetrick | Belmont | Southern | 116 | 10 |
Max Morgan | Tennessee B | Clemson A | 116 | 10 |
Asheton Wilbanks | Clemson A | Tennessee B | 116 | 0 |
Nova Sink | Virginia Tech B | Duke B | 116 | 10 |
Jack Stuhlman (DII) | Lehigh B (DII) | Princeton A (UG) | 116 | 0 |
Lucas Shedlock (UG) | Princeton A (UG) | Lehigh B (DII) | 116 | 0 |