makars - 2024 ACF Winter - Buzzpoints App

Question

These medieval poets, whose works are collected in the Bannatyne Manuscript, are the subject of a poem in which each stanza ends with “Timor mortis conturbat me.” For 10 points each:

[10h] Name these 16th-century royal court poets from Scotland. William Dunbar wrote a “Lament for” these poets.

ANSWER: makars [or makaris; accept “Lament for the Makaris”]

[10m] Despite not being Scottish, this is the first makar mentioned in “Lament for the Makaris.” This author wrote the poem Parlement of Foules (“fowls”).

ANSWER: Geoffrey Chaucer

[10e] William Dunbar described himself with this word in the title of a poem framed as a “Petition of The Gray Horse.” In a poem by Robert Burns often sung on New Year’s Eve, this word precedes “Lang Syne.”

ANSWER: auld [or old; accept “Auld Lang Syne” or The Petition of The Gray Horse, Auld Dunbar”]

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Summary


2024 ACF Winter at UC Berkeley	2024-11-16	Y	3	20.00	100%	67%	33%
2024 ACF Winter at Lehigh	2024-11-16	Y	6	15.00	100%	33%	17%
2024 ACF Winter at Northwestern	2024-11-16	Y	9	15.56	100%	44%	11%
2024 ACF Winter at Ohio State	2024-11-16	Y	7	17.14	100%	57%	14%
2024 ACF Winter at Online	2024-11-16	Y	8	18.75	88%	63%	38%
2024 ACF Winter at UBC	2024-11-16	Y	3	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Central Florida	2024-11-16	Y	5	12.00	100%	20%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Oxford	2024-11-16	Y	11	15.45	100%	27%	27%

Data


Berkeley C	Berkeley A	10	10	10	30
Berkeley B	Stanford A	0	10	10	20
Stanford M	Stanford L	0	0	10	10
Bard A	Columbia B	0	10	10	20
Haverford A	Rowan A	0	0	10	10
Johns Hopkins A	Columbia A	0	0	10	10
Penn B	Penn State B	0	0	10	10
Penn State A	Penn A	10	10	10	30
Rutgers C	Lehigh A	0	0	10	10
Notre Dame	WashU D	0	0	10	10
UIUC B	Purdue A	0	0	10	10
Purdue D	Indiana B	0	0	10	10
UChicago B	SIUE A	0	0	10	10
UIUC D	UChicago D	0	0	10	10
UIUC A	Indiana A	10	10	10	30
UIUC C	UChicago A	0	10	10	20
WashU B	UChicago C	0	10	10	20
Northwestern A	WashU C	0	10	10	20
CWRU B (UG)	CWRU D (DII)	0	0	10	10
Michigan C (UG)	Kenyon B (DII)	0	10	10	20
Michigan State B (UG)	Kenyon A (UG)	10	0	10	20
Michigan State C (UG)	CWRU A (UG)	0	0	10	10
Ohio State B (DII)	Pitt B (UG)	0	10	10	20
Michigan B	Ohio State C (DII)	0	10	10	20
Pitt A	Michigan D	0	10	10	20
Arkansas	McGill E	0	10	0	10
NYU A	Central Oklahoma	10	10	10	30
Mississippi State	Vassar B	0	0	10	10
Missouri	Texas B	10	10	10	30
WUSTL A	Ole Miss	0	0	10	10
Texas A	NYU B	10	10	10	30
Texas C	Texas D	0	0	10	10
Oregon State	Vassar A	0	10	10	20
UBC A	UW B	0	0	10	10
Alberta	UBC B	0	0	10	10
UW A	SFU	0	0	10	10
Florida State University A	UCF B	0	0	10	10
UF B	UF A	0	10	10	20
UCF A	UF C	0	0	10	10
UF D	Florida Tech B	0	0	10	10
UF E	Florida Tech A	0	0	10	10
Birmingham	Oxford B	0	0	10	10
Imperial A	Bristol B	10	0	10	20
Southampton B	Southampton A	0	0	10	10
Southampton B	Southampton A	0	0	10	10
Southampton B	Cambridge B	0	0	10	10
Southampton B	Cambridge B	0	0	10	10
Cambridge D	Durham B	0	0	10	10
Durham A	Edinburgh	0	0	10	10
Imperial B	Warwick B	0	0	10	10
Cambridge C	LSE B	10	0	10	20
LSE A	Southampton A	0	10	10	20
Southampton B	Southampton A	0	0	10	10
Southampton B	Southampton A	0	0	10	10
Southampton B	Cambridge B	0	0	10	10
Southampton B	Cambridge B	0	0	10	10
Oxford A	Team 1	10	10	10	30
Bristol A	Warwick A	0	10	10	20