Question
This poet repeats, “shutters shut and open so do queens” in a poem that implores, “Let me recite what history teaches. History teaches.” A short poem by this author describes “a single hurt color” and ends, “the difference is spreading.” The sections “Objects,” “Food,” and “Rooms” make up a collection by this poet that includes “A Carafe, That is a Blind Glass.” A book by this author set in the town of Bridgepoint follows the titular (*) Three Lives of Anna, Lena and Melanctha. A Tommy Orange novel takes its title from this poet’s comment of her hometown, “there is no there there.” A remark by this author was used for the epigraph of The Sun Also Rises and coined the term “Lost Generation.” For 10 points, name this author of Tender Buttons and The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas. ■END■
Summary
2024 ARCADIA at Claremont | 2024-11-02 | Y | 3 | 100% | 33% | 33% | 91.33 |
2024 ARCADIA at Illinois | 2024-11-09 | Y | 4 | 100% | 75% | 0% | 70.25 |
2024 ARCADIA at Waterloo | 2024-11-09 | Y | 7 | 100% | 43% | 0% | 83.14 |
2024 ARCADIA at Penn State | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 107.50 |
2024 ARCADIA at Florida Tech | 2024-12-06 | Y | 4 | 100% | 25% | 0% | 93.75 |
2024 ARCADIA at BU | 2024-12-06 | Y | 7 | 86% | 14% | 0% | 105.33 |
2024 ARCADIA at GT | 2024-12-06 | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 50% | 127.75 |
2024 ARCADIA at Warwick | 2024-12-06 | Y | 5 | 100% | 20% | 0% | 109.00 |
2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 100% | 100% | 0% | 44.50 |
2024 ARCADIA at Duke | 2024-12-06 | Y | 3 | 67% | 67% | 33% | 57.50 |
2024 ARCADIA at Missouri S&T | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 100% | 50% | 0% | 63.50 |
2024 ARCADIA Online | 2025-05-17 | Y | 5 | 100% | 100% | 0% | 50.00 |
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Kevin Wang | Georgia Tech A | Innovation Academy A | 39 | -5 |
King Vidor | In the Mood for Buzz | Social credit go vroom | 41 | 15 |
Ryan Sun | Berkeley B | Stanford | 43 | 15 |
Jared He | Waterloo Aspidistra | Ottawa Absolomabsolomabsolom | 43 | 15 |
Jared He | Waterloo Aspidistra | Ottawa Absolomabsolomabsolom | 43 | 15 |
Jason Cheng | Jason et al. | Claremont | 43 | -5 |
Sophie Torres | UCF B | UF C | 45 | 15 |
Ben Wismath | Toronto B | McMaster ApocolocyntosisBidii | 45 | 15 |
Anderson Wang | Anderson et al. | U[C]SD | 45 | 15 |
Shahar Schwartz | Berkeley Past | Berkeley A | 46 | 15 |
William Orr | Yale | Boston College A | 49 | 15 |
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Ariel Faeder | Pitt | Maryland | 93 | 10 |
Ned Tagtmeier | Chicago A | Notre Dame | 94 | 10 |
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Jacob Rosenberg | Innovation Academy C | Georgia Tech B | 117 | -5 |
Caleb Ott | Waterloo Basic | McGill A | 118 | 10 |
Yrwin Batan | MIT | Boston College B | 120 | 10 |
Leo Law | UF A | Valencia | 121 | 10 |
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Emily Kadolph | Virginia Tech B | South Carolina | 122 | -5 |
Cade Reinberger | RIT | Penn State | 122 | 10 |
Graham Cope | UF B | Florida Tech | 122 | 10 |
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Rayton Lin | Waterloo Cloze | Toronto Metropolitan A | 122 | 10 |
Darren Kellis | Milton | Lambert | 122 | 10 |
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Shiv Seshan | Cambridge B | Warwick C | 124 | 10 |
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Joy An | Harvard | Bowdoin A | 134 | 10 |
Kevin Park | Claremont | Jason et al. | 134 | 10 |
Armie Erban | Clark House | BU | 139 | 0 |
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Antoni Kluzowski | Warwick B | Warwick A | 139 | 10 |