Question

A poem in this genre addressed to a man “fortunate in your fate” describes an eagle “cutting the depth of air on high with tawny wings.” Another poem in this genre asks, “Creatures of a day, what is any one?” and calls man “the dream of a shadow.” (10[1])A poem in this genre describes how “gold, like a gleaming (10[1])fire by night, outshines (-5[1])all pride of wealth” and begins, “best of all things is water.” Some poems (10[1])in this genre (10[1])were traditionally performed by a group (-5[1])that would move to the left, right, and middle of a stage as they recited its three parts, (-5[4])including the strophe (-5[1])and antistrophe. (10[2]-5[1])“Pythian” and “Isthmian” (10[3])collections (10[2])were among the books of (10[1])epinikia, a subtype of this genre, that praised the victories of Hieron (10[2])of Syracuse (10[1])and other (10[1])Greek athletes. (10[1])For 10 points, Bacchylides and Pindar (10[1])influenced Horace (10[1])with their (10[1])poems in what genre that praises (10[1])a subject? (10[4])■END■ (10[6]0[2])

ANSWER: Pindaric odes [or victory odes; or Olympian odes; accept epinikia until read] (The first clue is from Bacchylides’s fifth ode.)
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Summary

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2024 ACF Regionals @ Minnesota01/27/2024Y2100%0%50%116.00
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2024 ACF Regionals @ Imperial01/27/2024Y4100%0%0%118.00

Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Andrew HannaPennHaverford4710
Raymond WangCornell ABinghamton5810
Anuttam RamjiBerkeley BStanford A62-5
Ben Russell JonesEdinburghOxford A7610
Guy IndoranteIowa StateMinnesota B7910
Meredie Cohen (DII)William & Mary A (UG)UNC A (Grad)85-5
Natan HoltzmanStanford BBerkeley C103-5
Ivan Stanisavljevic (DII)Duke A (UG)UNC D (DII)103-5
Cameron WilliamsAppalachian StateUBC A103-5
Sinecio Morales (DII)Johns HopkinsColumbia A103-5
Bryan UgazArizona StateMinnesota C106-5
Joseph Chambers (DII)Virginia A (UG)JMU A (UG)108-5
Perry O'Connor (Grad)Liberty A (Grad)Maryland A (Grad)10810
Tom Doyle (UG)VassarColumbia B10810
Jonathan Shauf (UG)UNC B (UG)GWU A (UG)11110
Isaac OlsonUW AMichigan State A11110
Cormac BeirneSorbonneIowa A11110
Jisoon YooTexas ATexas A&M A11210
Ben LaFondCambridge BCambridge C11210
Nathaniel HullBerkeley AStanford C11710
Michał GerasimiukStanford ABerkeley B12910
Dean Ah NowClaremont ARice A12910
Jerry VinokurovJohn JayColumbia C13110
Rosa XiaCornell BCornell C13310
Zaid Asif (DII)NYU BRowan13510
Eliza DeanOxford BKiel14110
Jaime Salamanca CamachoImperial BKCL14310
Cade ReinbergerRIT BRIT A14510
Moses KitakuleColumbia AJohns Hopkins15110
Charlotte Goeb (UG)Virginia B (UG)Liberty C (DII)15310
Benjamin McAvoy-Bickford (DII)UNC A (Grad)William & Mary A (UG)15310
Joshua Schmidt (DII)Liberty B (DII)Roanoke College A (DII)15310
Alexa NoyesMinnesota CArizona State15310
Arjun GonuguntlaBerkeley CStanford B15410
Luke Schaarschuch (UG)Virginia C (UG)GWU B (Grad)15410
Alice Zhong (DII)UNC D (DII)Duke A (UG)15410
Patrick Torre (DII)Maryland C (DII)JMU B (UG)15410
Brendan Karg (DII)JMU B (UG)Maryland C (DII)1540
Carly Hemani (DII)JMU A (UG)Virginia A (UG)1540
Russell NipUBC AAppalachian State15410
Ryan DunnIowa BTexas A&M B15410