Question
In one poem, this author described a figure who “seems to weep / the black river of himself.” In the “old man-killing parishes,” this author sees a man with a “peat-brown head” and feels “lost, / unhappy and at home.” That poem is one of this author’s “bog body” poems. In another poem, this author’s dead brother wears a “poppy bruise” while lying in a “four-foot box, a foot for every year.” The narrator of a poem by this author discovers (*) “great slime kings” “gathered there for vengeance” when returning to a “flax-dam” to collect frogspawn. This author described bringing his grandfather milk “corked sloppily with paper” in a poem that analogizes the title action to a “squat pen” “between my finger and my thumb.” For 10 points, name this author of “Death of a Naturalist” and “Digging.” ■END■
Summary
2024 ARCADIA at Claremont | 2024-11-02 | Y | 3 | 100% | 100% | 0% | 49.67 |
2024 ARCADIA at Illinois | 2024-11-09 | Y | 4 | 100% | 75% | 0% | 70.75 |
2024 ARCADIA at Waterloo | 2024-11-09 | Y | 5 | 100% | 80% | 0% | 59.20 |
2024 ARCADIA at Penn State | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 100% | 50% | 0% | 71.50 |
2024 ARCADIA at Florida Tech | 2024-12-06 | Y | 4 | 100% | 75% | 0% | 70.25 |
2024 ARCADIA at BU | 2024-12-06 | Y | 8 | 75% | 50% | 13% | 85.00 |
2024 ARCADIA at GT | 2024-12-06 | Y | 5 | 80% | 60% | 0% | 72.25 |
2024 ARCADIA at Warwick | 2024-12-06 | Y | 5 | 100% | 100% | 0% | 55.00 |
2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 100% | 100% | 0% | 31.00 |
2024 ARCADIA at Duke | 2024-12-06 | Y | 3 | 100% | 67% | 0% | 61.00 |
2024 ARCADIA at Missouri S&T | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 100% | 100% | 0% | 43.50 |
2024 ARCADIA Online | 2025-05-17 | Y | 5 | 100% | 100% | 0% | 47.00 |
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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Kevin Wang | Georgia Tech A | Mississippi State | 24 | 15 |
Shahar Schwartz | Berkeley Past | Stanford | 31 | 15 |
Eve Fleisig | Berkeley A | Berkeley B | 31 | 15 |
Jared He | Waterloo Aspidistra | Waterloo Basic | 31 | 15 |
Ariel Faeder | Pitt | RIT | 34 | 15 |
Jeremy Cummings | WashU | Truman | 39 | 15 |
Omkar Marathe | Toyota Tundra Turbos — Twisting Truths - Tackling Trivia - Taming Titans | Old and Young | 39 | 15 |
Graham Cope | UF B | UF C | 46 | 15 |
Kevin Le | Carleton A | McGill A | 46 | 15 |
Noah Chin | Virginia Tech A | South Carolina | 48 | 15 |
Gabe Forrest | Squidward Community College | Missouri | 48 | 15 |
Anna Barker | UCF B | Florida Tech | 48 | 15 |
Michael Kearney | Harvard | Tufts A | 49 | 15 |
Chris Yoo | she limp on my waltz till i feel pathetique | Madmen and Specialists | 49 | 15 |
Kevin Zheng | Social credit go vroom | ASU->Stanford->ASU pipeline | 49 | 15 |
Moses Kitakule | In the Mood for Buzz | bingy academy | 49 | 15 |
Anne Fjeld | Paddington in Peru (2024) | The cult of SGA | 49 | 15 |
Leo Law | UF A | UCF A | 49 | 15 |
Tony Chen | Toronto A | Toronto B | 49 | 15 |
Halee Carey | McMaster ApocolocyntosisBidii | Toronto Metropolitan A | 49 | 15 |
Arjun Kala | Illinois Blue | Notre Dame | 49 | 15 |
Max Brodsky | Illinois Orange | SIUE | 49 | 15 |
Ned Tagtmeier | Chicago A | Purdue B | 49 | 15 |
Antoni Kluzowski | Warwick B | LSE B | 49 | 15 |
Albert Nyang | LSE A | Warwick C | 49 | 15 |
Anderson Wang | Anderson et al. | Claremont | 49 | 15 |
Will Alston | SGV Ventures | Jason et al. | 49 | 15 |
Brendan Bethlehem | Cambridge A | Southampton | 51 | 15 |
Justine French | U[C]SD | ALCU | 51 | 15 |
Orion Keller | Virginia Tech B | North Carolina A | 52 | 15 |
Yrwin Batan | MIT | Clark Wilson | 57 | 15 |
Joseph Collins | Imperial B | Cambridge B | 60 | 15 |
Sanjay Shanmuga Perumal | Lambert | Innovation Academy C | 61 | 15 |
William Orr | Yale | Bowdoin C | 65 | 15 |
Richard Lin | Amherst | Clark House | 66 | 15 |
Krish Chinta | Innovation Academy A | Georgia Tech C | 66 | 15 |
Robert Crawley | Warwick A | Imperial A | 66 | 15 |
Eric Chang | Virginia Tech C | North Carolina B | 83 | 10 |
Gabriel Margolies | Boston College B | Bowdoin B | 87 | -5 |
Daniel Kim | Maryland | Penn State | 109 | 10 |
Rayton Lin | Waterloo Cloze | Toronto Chestnut Rice and Kamehameha | 121 | 10 |
Christopher Dech | Brandeis A | BU | 135 | 10 |
Max Hodes | Chicago B | Purdue A | 136 | 10 |
Dylan Tanouye | Tufts B | Boston College A | 138 | 0 |
Mitra Hu-Henderson | Bowdoin B | Boston College B | 138 | 0 |
Blake Johnson | Boston College A | Tufts B | 138 | 0 |
Kayla Drajpuch | Brandeis B | Bowdoin A | 138 | 10 |
Clete Reinberger | Valencia | USF | 138 | 10 |
Joanna Xiao | Georgia Tech D | Johns Creek | 138 | 10 |
Pratyusha Soni | Innovation Academy B | Milton | 138 | 0 |
Darren Kellis | Milton | Innovation Academy B | 138 | 0 |