Question
A poem titled for these objects likely borrowed from a Kóstas Ouránis line about an “autumn afternoon,” according to a Donald Justice note in his “Variations on a Text by” that poem’s author. A Jean de Ruysbroeck epigraph prefaces a prose poem titled for an object of this kind, which opens, “the bad light is near and nothing is real.” The speaker of a poem titled for these objects is beaten with a club and rope while observed by “Thursday days” and “humerus bones.” A medieval practice involving one of these objects titles an (*) Alejandra Pizarnik collection. Black and white examples of these objects title a César Vallejo poem that predicts “I will die in Paris with a rainstorm.” A poem titled for an object of this kind describes a river that “advances and retreats, goes roundabout, / arriving forever.” For 10 points, an Octavio Paz poem is titled for the “Sun” variety of what object? ■END■
Summary
2024 ARGOS @ Stanford | 02/22/2025 | Y | 3 | 100% | 33% | 0% | 87.67 |
2024 ARGOS Online | 03/22/2025 | N | 3 | 100% | 33% | 0% | 90.00 |
2024 ARGOS @ Brandeis | 03/22/2025 | N | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 103.33 |
2024 ARGOS @ McMaster | 11/17/2024 | Y | 5 | 100% | 20% | 0% | 102.60 |
2024 ARGOS @ Chicago | 11/23/2024 | Y | 6 | 100% | 17% | 17% | 109.83 |
2024 ARGOS @ Columbia | 11/23/2024 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 121.33 |
2024 ARGOS @ Christ's College | 12/14/2024 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 115.67 |
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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Matt Bollinger | BHSU ReFantazio | The Love Song of J Alfred PrufRock and Roll All Nite (and Party Every Day) | 60 | 15 |
Stephen Liu | Where are the ACF Nationals recordings? | Stanford+ | 68 | 15 |
Tony Chen | Simpson Agonistes: The Crisis of Donut | The Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork Orange | 78 | 15 |
Michael Hundiing | Who is the Colleen Hoover of the Zulus? | Music to Help You Stop Smoking | 96 | 10 |
Logan Mathis | That Feeling When Knee Surgery Is in Five Days | Clown Senpais | 96 | 10 |
Ben Russell Jones | Simple Vibes | Defying Suavity | 96 | 10 |
Halle Friedman | jeff mcneil #1 morningside heights fan club | just one more half-dot bro | 96 | 10 |
Henry Atkins | Communism is Soviet power plus the yassification of the whole country | Tensei Shitara Flashcard Data Ken | 96 | 10 |
Anuttam Ramji | Cry of the Common Loon | Berkeley | 96 | 10 |
Sinecio Morales | hawk two of | Notre Dame | 99 | 10 |
Anderson Wang | A is for Amy Robsart who fell down the stairs | number of tang poems = 75 times number of lines in a shi = 100 times number of lines in a haiku | 99 | 10 |
Joseph Krol | Cien Años de Quizboledad | Limp Franceskit | 100 | 10 |
Jared He | You cannot go to Aarhus to see his peat-brown head / With eyes like ripening fruit | I'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up | 100 | 10 |
Raymond Chen | She Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA Interfere | Ryan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan Quizbowlers | 103 | 10 |
Tejas Raje | BHSU Rebirth | WashU | 108 | -5 |
Ryan Rosenberg | Cope is the thing with feathers | NJ TRANSit (and anwen i guess) | 132 | 10 |
Will Alston | Walston et. al. | 12 Litres of Green Tea | 136 | 10 |
Kunaal Chandrashekar | as rational as the square root of two power bottoms | Moderator Can't Neg me While in Alpha | 136 | 10 |
Michael Wu | Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz | Cambridge | 151 | 10 |
Yashwanth Bajji | Clown Squad | Northeast by Northwestern | 152 | 10 |
Jeremy Cummings | WashU | BHSU Rebirth | 156 | 10 |