Question
Quoting Melville, an author from this country asks “How does one say NO in thunder” in a poem that, along with a later author’s tribute, has the title “Lament of the Silent Sisters.” The speaker of a poem from this country calls himself “watcher for the watchword” amid “Dark waters of the beginning.” A landlady speaks in all caps in a poem from this country titled “Telephone Conversation.” A poet from this country included (*) “Heavensgate” in his collection Labyrinths with Path of Thunder. In a play from this country, the arrival of a foreign photographer prompts village girls to perform “The Dance of the Lost Traveller” as Baroka and Lakunle compete to marry Sidi. For 10 points, name this home country of poet Christopher Okigbo and the author of The Lion and the Jewel, Wole Soyinka. ■END■
Summary
2024 Booster Shot (Columbia) | 02/23/2024 | Y | 6 | 100% | 33% | 0% | 100.50 |
2024 Booster Shot (Waterloo) | 02/23/2024 | Y | 4 | 100% | 50% | 0% | 85.50 |
2024 Booster Shot (Vanderbilt) | 03/02/2024 | Y | 5 | 100% | 20% | 20% | 110.40 |
2024 Booster Shot (Vanderbilt) | 03/02/2024 | Y | 1 | 0% | 0% | 100% | 0.00 |
2024 Booster Shot (Great Lakes) | 03/09/2024 | Y | 4 | 100% | 50% | 25% | 87.00 |
2024 Booster Shot (WUSTL) | 03/09/2024 | Y | 3 | 100% | 67% | 0% | 79.33 |
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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Raymond Chen | Toronto Penguin World War | Toronto Tony Jingyu Chen eats quizbowl | 32 | 15 |
Moses Kitakule | Columbia B | Columbia C | 58 | 15 |
William Orr | Yale | Columbia A | 61 | 15 |
Jared He | Waterloo Bust | Toronto cDNA | 61 | 15 |
Fred Garvey | Truman State | SIUE | 64 | 15 |
Jonathan Shauf | North Carolina | Iowa State | 67 | 15 |
Jack Lewis | MTSU | Claremont | 67 | 15 |
Gabe Forrest | Squidward Community College | WUSTL C | 67 | 15 |
Neal Joshi | WUSTL | Stanford | 68 | 15 |
Jack Lewis | MTSU | Georgia Tech B | 69 | -5 |
Roan Dowling | Iowa | Penn State B | 77 | 10 |
Sai Subramanian | Case Western | Ohio | 82 | -5 |
Joshua Davenport | Georgia Tech C | Georgia Tech A | 82 | -5 |
Eshan Pant | NYU A | Rutgers | 100 | 10 |
Ophelia Cherry-Pulay | USN A | WUSTL | 104 | 10 |
Conner Yamnitz | WUSTL A | WUSTL J | 107 | 10 |
Gavin Markoff | Vanderbilt A | Vanderbilt B | 110 | 10 |
Evan Schleck | Gatherer | Lehigh A | 112 | 10 |
Maude-Sophie Lockman | Ottawa | Toronto Sprout | 116 | 10 |
Liam Kusalik | Waterloo Cali | Toronto Pilk | 133 | 10 |
Tianyu Xu | Georgia Tech A | Georgia Tech C | 135 | 10 |
Annie Williams | NYU B | Lehigh B | 136 | 10 |
Austin Guo | Princeton | Bard | 136 | 10 |
Young Fenimore Lee | Ohio | Case Western | 136 | 10 |
Matthew Sumanen | Georgia Tech B | Belmont | 136 | 10 |