The experience described in this poem also closes the autobiographical story “The Country Mouse,” whose narrator wonders, “Why was I a human being?” This poem’s speaker perceives the title location to be “sliding / beneath a big black wave, / another, and another” and attributes an “oh! of pain” to a “foolish, timid woman” before realizing “that it was me: / my voice, in my mouth.” That speaker tells herself she will be seven in three days to stop “the sensation of falling off / the round, turning world.” In this poem from Geography III set in Worcester (“WUST-er”), Massachusetts, in 1918, the speaker sees photos of “the inside of a volcano / black, and full of ashes,” and of “black, naked women” whose “awful hanging breasts” horrify her. For 10 points, the speaker joins Aunt Consuelo at the dentist’s office and reads National Geographic in what poem by Elizabeth Bishop? ■END■
| 2024 ACF Nationals | 2024-04-21 | Y | 22 | 55% | 0% | 14% | 115.50 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eve Fleisig | Berkeley A | Michigan | 40 | 10 |
| Will Orr | Yale B | Penn | 95 | 10 |
| Andrew Ellis | Kentucky | Indiana | 97 | -5 |
| Arthur Delot-Vilain | Yale A | Texas | 97 | 10 |
| Connor Mayers | Maryland | Northwestern | 104 | -5 |
| Richard Niu | Cornell A | Columbia B | 106 | 10 |
| Tim Morrison | Stanford | Truman State | 110 | 10 |
| Michael Hunding | Illinois | McGill | 122 | 10 |
| Ashish Subramanian | Duke | Rutgers | 123 | 10 |
| Ned Tagtmeier | Chicago A | Cornell B | 124 | 10 |
| Raymond Chen | Toronto A | North Carolina A | 135 | 10 |
| Halle Friedman | NYU | Chicago B | 139 | -5 |
| Eylon Caplan | Purdue | Vanderbilt | 141 | 10 |
| Sinecio Morales | Johns Hopkins | Minnesota B | 143 | 10 |
| Anuttam Ramji | Berkeley B | Florida | 150 | 0 |
| Tiffany Zhou | Florida | Berkeley B | 150 | 0 |
| Joseph Chambers | Virginia | Iowa State | 150 | 0 |
| Conor Thompson | Iowa State | Virginia | 150 | 0 |
| Jakob Myers | Indiana | Kentucky | 150 | 0 |
| Henry Cafaro | Chicago B | NYU | 150 | 0 |
| Ivvone Zhou | North Carolina B | Waterloo | 150 | 10 |
| Chris Sims | Northwestern | Maryland | 150 | 0 |
| Bryan Ugaz | Arizona State | WUSTL B | 150 | 0 |
| Amith Punyala | WUSTL B | Arizona State | 150 | 0 |
| Moses Kitakule | Columbia A | Brown | 150 | 0 |
| Jason Hong | Brown | Columbia A | 150 | 0 |
| Ben Wismath | Toronto B | Chicago D | 150 | 0 |
| Shiv Seshan | Chicago D | Toronto B | 150 | 0 |
| Adrian Wong | Ottawa | Claremont Colleges | 150 | 0 |
| Kevin Park | Claremont Colleges | Ottawa | 150 | 0 |
| Jeffrey Fung | Harvard | WUSTL A | 150 | 0 |
| Matthew Lehmann | WUSTL A | Harvard | 150 | 0 |