Question
A place in this poem filled with “spikenard and saffron, calamus and cinnamon” is evoked in a “spiritual” reimagining from the 16th century. A passage of this poem in the wasf (“WUSS-uff”) style compares a woman’s navel to “a goblet that wants not for wine,” alluding to oral sex. Lillian Hellman took the title of The Little Foxes from this poem, which originated the phrase “ivory tower.” A woman in this poem addresses the “Daughters of (*) Jerusalem” to exclaim, “I am black, but I am lovely.” One of this poem’s speakers calls herself a “rose of Sharon” and exhorts, “let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth.” This poem, which notably never mentions God, is framed as a conversation between a Shulamite and her lover. For 10 points, name this erotic biblical poem sometimes named for a wise king. ■END■
Summary
2024 ARCADIA at Claremont | 2024-11-02 | Y | 3 | 100% | 67% | 0% | 64.67 |
2024 ARCADIA at Illinois | 2024-11-09 | Y | 4 | 100% | 50% | 0% | 102.25 |
2024 ARCADIA at Waterloo | 2024-11-09 | Y | 6 | 100% | 33% | 17% | 110.83 |
2024 ARCADIA at Penn State | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 101.50 |
2024 ARCADIA at Florida Tech | 2024-12-06 | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 130.25 |
2024 ARCADIA at BU | 2024-12-06 | Y | 8 | 100% | 13% | 0% | 114.50 |
2024 ARCADIA at GT | 2024-12-06 | Y | 4 | 75% | 0% | 25% | 120.00 |
2024 ARCADIA at Warwick | 2024-12-06 | Y | 5 | 80% | 20% | 20% | 119.75 |
2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 50% | 132.00 |
2024 ARCADIA at Duke | 2024-12-06 | Y | 3 | 100% | 33% | 0% | 89.67 |
2024 ARCADIA at Missouri S&T | 2024-12-06 | Y | 1 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 79.00 |
2024 ARCADIA Online | 2025-05-17 | Y | 5 | 100% | 40% | 0% | 99.80 |
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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Justine French | U[C]SD | Jason et al. | 37 | 15 |
Emily Kadolph | Virginia Tech B | North Carolina A | 40 | 15 |
Shahar Schwartz | Berkeley Past | Berkeley A | 43 | -5 |
Will Alston | SGV Ventures | Anderson et al. | 43 | 15 |
Sky Li | Toronto A | Toronto Metropolitan A | 49 | 15 |
Arjun Nair | Innovation Academy C | Milton | 49 | -5 |
Owen Riley | Toyota Tundra Turbos — Twisting Truths - Tackling Trivia - Taming Titans | she limp on my waltz till i feel pathetique | 59 | 15 |
Seraphina Charlotte Foo | Cambridge A | Bristol | 59 | 15 |
Moses Kitakule | In the Mood for Buzz | Madmen and Specialists | 60 | 15 |
Michael Sun | Brandeis B | Boston College B | 65 | 15 |
Ben Wismath | Toronto B | Ottawa Absolomabsolomabsolom | 65 | 15 |
Zach Joseph | Notre Dame | Chicago B | 65 | 15 |
Yusuf Baig | McMaster ApocolocyntosisBidii | Toronto Chestnut Rice and Kamehameha | 67 | -5 |
John Marvin | Chicago A | Illinois Blue | 69 | 15 |
Braden Booth | Missouri | WashU | 79 | 10 |
Patrick Torre | Maryland | Pitt | 84 | 10 |
Noah Chin | Virginia Tech A | South Carolina | 95 | 10 |
Jonathan Schnipper | Brandeis A | Yale | 97 | 10 |
Mike Cheyne | Old and Young | Social credit go vroom | 101 | 10 |
Anthony Lovegren | UCF A | UCF B | 101 | 10 |
Jeffrey Xu | Georgia Tech A | Lambert | 106 | 10 |
James McCurley | Harvard | Clark Wilson | 107 | 10 |
Blake Johnson | Boston College A | Bowdoin C | 114 | 10 |
Michelle Luo | Johns Creek | Innovation Academy B | 114 | 10 |
Jonathan Haimowitz | ALCU | Claremont | 114 | 10 |
Nathan Sheffield | MIT | Bowdoin B | 119 | 10 |
Ted Gan | Penn State | RIT | 119 | 10 |
Cormac Stephenson | Southampton | Cambridge B | 119 | -5 |
Michal Gerasimiuk | Stanford | Berkeley B | 125 | 10 |
Micah Colman | Waterloo Basic | Waterloo Cloze | 133 | 10 |
Eric Chang | Virginia Tech C | North Carolina B | 134 | 10 |
Kai McFarland | Boston University | Amherst | 135 | 10 |
Eric Yang | Purdue A | SIUE | 135 | 10 |
Jared He | Waterloo Aspidistra | Carleton A | 138 | 10 |
Dylan Tanouye | Tufts B | Clark House | 139 | 10 |
Joel Miles | Paddington in Peru (2024) | ASU->Stanford->ASU pipeline | 139 | 10 |
Eve Fleisig | Berkeley A | Berkeley Past | 139 | 10 |
Evan Lucca | Bowdoin A | Tufts A | 140 | 10 |
Brody Sadler | The cult of SGA | bingy academy | 140 | 10 |
Nicholas Nguyen | UF C | Florida Tech | 140 | 10 |
Biniam Alaro | UF A | USF | 140 | 10 |
Clete Reinberger | Valencia | UF B | 140 | 10 |
Joey Sun | Toronto Chestnut Rice and Kamehameha | McMaster ApocolocyntosisBidii | 140 | 10 |
Nick Edwards | McGill A | Toronto Disband the Club 2k24 | 140 | 10 |
Darren Kellis | Milton | Innovation Academy C | 140 | 0 |
Zach Tseng | Georgia Tech D | Innovation Academy A | 140 | 10 |
Akshar Goyal | Illinois Orange | Purdue B | 140 | 10 |
Shiv Seshan | Cambridge B | Southampton | 140 | 0 |
Zach Lau | Warwick C | LSE B | 140 | 10 |
Charlie Lowman | Imperial B | Warwick A | 140 | 10 |
Rahim Dina | Imperial A | Warwick B | 140 | 10 |