they use all letters in a language’s alphabet at least once - 2024 ARCADIA

Question

A poem with this quality that ends by describing “a world of shallow dreams” was long thought to be written by Kukai, the founder of Shingon Buddhism. For 10 points each:

[10e] Describe this quality exemplified by the medieval Japanese poem Iroha. Sentences such as “the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” and other pangrams have this quality.

ANSWER: they use all letters in a language’s alphabet at least once [accept symbols or characters in place of letters; accept syllabary or writing system in place of “alphabet”; accept holoalphabetic]

[10m] Iroha spawned a game using this collaborative poetic form, in which competitors write poems whose stanzas each begin with a different hiragana character. Multiple poets link stanzas together in this precursor of haiku.

ANSWER: renga

[10h] The text of Iroha also describes scattering flowers on a mountain, reminiscent of this poem by Kim Sowol, which begins, “When you leave, sick and tired of me, I shall send you away silently.”

ANSWER: “Azaleas”

<HG, World Literature>

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2024 ARCADIA at BU	2024-12-06	Y	6	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Duke	2024-12-06	Y	3	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Missouri S&T	2024-12-06	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2024 ARCADIA Online	2025-05-17	Y	5	18.00	100%	20%	60%
2024 ARCADIA at Penn State	2024-12-06	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Florida Tech	2024-12-06	Y	4	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley	2024-12-06	Y	2	15.00	100%	0%	50%
2024 ARCADIA at Waterloo	2024-11-09	Y	6	16.67	100%	17%	50%
2024 ARCADIA at GT	2024-12-06	Y	5	10.00	80%	20%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Illinois	2024-11-09	Y	4	17.50	100%	25%	50%
2024 ARCADIA at Warwick	2024-12-06	Y	5	14.00	100%	20%	20%
2024 ARCADIA at Claremont	2024-11-02	Y	3	20.00	100%	33%	67%

Data


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