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Question

A character with this surname combats his insomnia by imagining conversations between his family members and important figures from his childhood, such as Lisa Simpson. For 10 points each:

[10h] Give this surname of Cyrus, the protagonist of Kaveh Akbar’s novel Martyr! A poet with this given name spent 40 days in Konya teaching a pupil who later dedicated a divan to him.

ANSWER: Shams [accept Cyrus Shams; accept Shams Tabrizi or Shams of Tabriz or Shams al-din Muhammad]

[10e] Another of Cyrus’s dreams features this Sufi Persian poet, a student of Shams Tabrizi whose mystical poetry includes the Spiritual Couplets.

ANSWER: Rumi [or Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī]

[10m] Cyrus has a dream of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar talking hoops with his imaginary brother named for this person. The claim that “[this person] Was One-Sixteenth Black” titles a Nadine Gordimer story collection.

ANSWER: Ludwig van Beethoven

<HG, World Literature>

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Summary


2024 ARCADIA at BU	2024-12-06	Y	8	13.75	88%	38%	13%
2024 ARCADIA at Duke	2024-12-06	Y	2	25.00	100%	100%	50%
2024 ARCADIA at Missouri S&T	2024-12-06	Y	2	80.00	400%	200%	200%
2024 ARCADIA Online	2025-05-17	Y	5	24.00	100%	100%	40%
2024 ARCADIA at Penn State	2024-12-06	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Florida Tech	2024-12-06	Y	4	7.50	25%	50%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley	2024-12-06	Y	2	25.00	100%	100%	50%
2024 ARCADIA at Waterloo	2024-11-09	Y	6	16.67	100%	67%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at GT	2024-12-06	Y	5	16.00	100%	60%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Illinois	2024-11-09	Y	4	22.50	100%	75%	50%
2024 ARCADIA at Warwick	2024-12-06	Y	5	10.00	80%	20%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Claremont	2024-11-02	Y	3	26.67	100%	100%	67%

Data


BU	Bowdoin C	0	0	0	0
Amherst	Boston College A	0	10	10	20
Boston College B	Clark Wilson	0	10	0	10
Brandeis A	Clark House	0	10	0	10
Harvard	Brandeis B	10	10	10	30
MIT	Tufts A	0	10	0	10
Yale	Tufts B	0	10	10	20
North Carolina A	North Carolina B	0	10	10	20
Virginia Tech A	Virginia Tech B	10	10	10	30
Truman	Squidward Community College	0	10	0	10
Truman	Squidward Community College	0	10	10	20
Truman	Squidward Community College	10	10	0	20
Truman	Squidward Community College	10	10	10	30
Truman	Squidward Community College	0	10	0	10
Truman	Squidward Community College	0	10	10	20
Truman	Squidward Community College	10	10	0	20
Truman	Squidward Community College	10	10	10	30
The cult of SGA	ASU->Stanford->ASU pipeline	0	10	10	20
In the Mood for Buzz	Old and Young	0	10	10	20
Toyota Tundra Turbos — Twisting Truths - Tackling Trivia - Taming Titans	Paddington in Peru (2024)	10	10	10	30
Social credit go vroom	she limp on my waltz till i feel pathetique	10	10	10	30
Pitt	Maryland	0	10	10	20
Penn State	RIT	0	10	0	10
UF A	Florida Tech	0	10	10	20
UCF B	UF B	0	0	10	10
UF C	USF	0	0	0	0
Valencia	UCF A	0	0	0	0
Berkeley A	Berkeley Past	10	10	10	30
Berkeley B	Stanford	0	10	10	20
Madmen and Specialists	bingy academy	0	10	10	20
McMaster ApocolocyntosisBidii	McGill A	0	10	10	20
Toronto Disband the Club 2k24	Toronto A	0	10	10	20
Carleton A	Toronto Chestnut Rice and Kamehameha	0	10	0	10
Waterloo Cloze	Toronto Metropolitan A	0	10	0	10
Waterloo Aspidistra	Ottawa Absolomabsolomabsolom	0	10	10	20
Toronto B	Waterloo Basic	0	10	10	20
Georgia Tech A	Milton	0	10	10	20
Lambert	Georgia Tech B	0	10	10	20
Georgia Tech D	Innovation Academy B	0	10	10	20
Johns Creek	Innovation Academy C	0	10	0	10
Georgia Tech C	Mississippi State	0	10	0	10
SIUE	Chicago A	0	10	0	10
Illinois Orange	Chicago B	10	10	10	30
Notre Dame	Purdue B	0	10	10	20
Illinois Blue	Purdue A	10	10	10	30
Cambridge B	Bristol	0	10	0	10
Warwick C	Imperial A	0	0	0	0
Imperial B	Warwick B	0	10	0	10
LSE A	LSE B	0	10	0	10
Southampton	Warwick A	0	10	10	20
Anderson et al.	ALCU	10	10	10	30
Claremont	Jason et al.	0	10	10	20
SGV Ventures	U[C]SD	10	10	10	30
Bowdoin A	Bowdoin B	0	10	0	10