Yale University - 2024 ARCADIA

Question

Winners of a prize granted by this institution receive a reserved spot at the James Merrill House residency program. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this institution that now awards the Bollingen Prize for Poetry. Stephen Vincent Benet and Archibald MacLeish were influential judges for this institution’s Younger Poets Prize, the oldest annual literary award in the US.

ANSWER: Yale University [accept Yale Series of Younger Poets]

[10e] A high watermark of the Yale Series of Younger Poets was the judgeship of this poet, who selected Adrienne Rich and W. S. Merwin, among others. This British-American wrote “Musée des Beaux Arts.”

ANSWER: W. H. Auden [or Wystan Hugh Auden]

[10m] In 1956, Auden drew controversy by awarding the prize to Some Trees, this poet’s first book, despite not understanding a word of it. A Parmigianino painting inspired the magnum opus of this New York School poet.

ANSWER: John Ashbery [or John Lawrence Ashbery] (The poem is “Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror.”)

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Summary


2024 ARCADIA at BU	2024-12-06	Y	8	8.75	38%	25%	25%
2024 ARCADIA at Duke	2024-12-06	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Missouri S&T	2024-12-06	Y	1	20.00	100%	100%	0%
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	10.00	50%	50%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley	2024-12-06	Y	2	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Waterloo	2024-11-09	Y	6	13.33	83%	50%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at GT	2024-12-06	Y	5	14.00	100%	20%	20%
2024 ARCADIA at Illinois	2024-11-09	Y	4	17.50	100%	75%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Warwick	2024-12-06	Y	5	8.00	60%	20%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Claremont	2024-11-02	Y	3	16.67	100%	33%	33%

Data


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