Question

In one poem, Billy Collins described a painter kneeling and whispering to the dying body of one of these creatures. According to Helen Vendler, (15[1])there existed two (15[1])versions of a poem (15[1])about one of these creatures that differed in the (-5[1])punctuation (15[1])after “cautious.” The narrator of a Charles Bukowski poem (15[1])describes pouring (-5[1])whiskey and inhaling (15[1])cigarette (15[1])smoke to stop one of these creatures (15[1])from escaping his (15[1])(*) heart. One of these creatures (10[1])questions “in all but words, what to make of a diminished thing” in a (10[1])Robert (10[2])Frost (-5[1])poem. (10[1]-5[1])A poem (-5[2])describes an encounter with one of these creatures that drank dew (-5[1])from a (10[1])“convenient grass” after it (10[1])“came (10[1])down (10[1])from the walk.” (10[3])One (10[1])poem questions why “thin men of Hadden” (10[4])fail (10[1])to see (10[1]-5[1])one (10[1])of these creatures which is found “among (10[1])twenty snowy mountains.” (10[3])For (10[1])10 points, (10[1])Wallace Stevens described (10[3])thirteen ways (10[1])of looking (10[3])at (10[2])what type (10[1])of creature? ■END■ (10[4]0[1])

ANSWER: bird [accept blackbird or bluebird, accept “Birds of America” or “The Oven Bird” or “A Bird, Came down from the Walk” or “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird]
<JF, American Literature>
= Average correct buzz position

Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Arjun KalaIllinois BlueChicago B2315
Anuttam RamjiBerkeley BBerkeley A2615
Raymond ChenToronto Disband the Club 2k24Waterloo Basic3015
Joy AnHarvardMIT39-5
Richard LinAmherstTufts B4015
Anderson WangAnderson et al.Claremont4915
Neal JoshiWashUTruman51-5
King VidorIn the Mood for BuzzThe cult of SGA5415
Kevin ZhengSocial credit go vroomMadmen and Specialists5515
Ben WismathToronto BCarleton A6215
Gareth ThorlaksonToronto AWaterloo Cloze6515
Towery McNeilMississippi StateLambert7010
Fred GarveyTrumanMissouri8410
Jared HeWaterloo AspidistraToronto Chestnut Rice and Kamehameha8510
Ned TagtmeierChicago AIllinois Orange8510
Camden WilliamsToyota Tundra Turbos — Twisting Truths - Tackling Trivia - Taming Titansbingy academy86-5
Nathan SheffieldMITHarvard8710
Bryan UgazASU->Stanford->ASU pipelineshe limp on my waltz till i feel pathetique87-5
Young Fenimore LeeOld and YoungPaddington in Peru (2024)89-5
Ishan JoshiToronto Metropolitan AMcGill A89-5
Michael WuSouthamptonLSE A100-5
Eve MarambaUF CValencia10210
Ariel FaederPittRIT10610
Gabe ForrestSquidward Community CollegeMissouri10710
Shahar SchwartzBerkeley PastStanford10810
William OrrYaleBU11110
Shourjo Gangulibingy academyToyota Tundra Turbos — Twisting Truths - Tackling Trivia - Taming Titans11110
Kevin WangGeorgia Tech AInnovation Academy B11110
Will AlstonSGV VenturesU[C]SD11210
Nick SmemoeNorth Carolina BVirginia Tech B11910
Noah ChinVirginia Tech AVirginia Tech C11910
Tiffany ZhouUF AUCF B11910
Kaiwen XiaoALCUJason et al.11910
Arunn SankarGeorgia Tech BGeorgia Tech D12010
Jacob FinleyNotre DamePurdue A12210
Cormac BeirneLSE BImperial B122-5
Halee CareyMcMaster ApocolocyntosisBidiiOttawa Absolomabsolomabsolom12310
Chris LevesleyWarwick ACambridge B13010
Shiva TegullaUCF AFlorida Tech13310
Alex ThomasGeorgia Tech CJohns Creek13310
Albert NyangLSE ASouthampton13310
Ryan HappelSIUEPurdue B13410
Anne FjeldPaddington in Peru (2024)Old and Young13610
Braeden LaRocheSouth CarolinaNorth Carolina A13910
Ted GanPenn StateMaryland13910
Adsayan GaneshWarwick BCambridge A13910
Kevin FlanaganBristolWarwick C14110
Jonathan SchnipperBrandeis ABowdoin C14310
Kayla DrajpuchBrandeis BBowdoin B14310
Chris Yooshe limp on my waltz till i feel pathetiqueASU->Stanford->ASU pipeline14310
Graham CopeUF BUSF14410
Charlie LowmanImperial BLSE B14410
Shining SunBoston College BBowdoin A14610
Blake JohnsonBoston College AClark House14910
Madeline StrausTufts AClark Wilson14910
Will PulvinoClark WilsonTufts A1490
Fred GarveyTrumanWashU14910
Nick EdwardsMcGill AToronto Metropolitan A14910