Question
In a poem titled for this city, the speaker claims that he “would rather go mad, gone down the dark road to Mexico” than face the “daylight misery of thumb-sucking rage.” In a poem, a resident of this city uses the analogy “a man like a city and a woman like a flower” and repeatedly exclaims, “Thalassa!” The speaker recalls being read stories from a “Communist fairy book” printed in this city and spending “long nites … watching over your nervousness” in Allen Ginsberg’s poem “Kaddish,” which recounts his (*) upbringing in this city. A poem opens by describing this city’s location in a valley under a waterfall in the section “The Delineaments of the Giants.” A physician from this city wrote a poem about it that repeats the maxim “no ideas but in things.” For 10 points, what New Jersey city titles an epic poem by William Carlos Williams? ■END■
Summary
2024 ESPN @ Stanford | 03/09/2024 | N | 2 | 100% | 0% | 50% | 115.50 |
2024 ESPN @ Chicago | 03/23/2024 | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 111.33 |
2024 ESPN @ Columbia | 03/23/2024 | Y | 7 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 121.71 |
2024 ESPN @ Duke | 03/23/2024 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 139.50 |
2024 ESPN @ Cambridge | 04/06/2024 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 131.50 |
2024 ESPN @ Brown | 04/06/2024 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 130.50 |
2024 ESPN @ Online | 06/01/2024 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 132.67 |
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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Henry Cafaro | Chicago B | Oh the Missouri | 91 | 10 |
King Vidor | Houston Junior College | Williams et al. | 99 | -5 |
Matt Bollinger | BHSU | >:3 | 106 | 10 |
Ned Tagtmeier | Chicago A Minus Minus | Noli Me Tangerine | 106 | 10 |
Taylor Harvey | Charlotte Mewing to get that chiseled farmer’s bride jawline | Nobodaddy but you | 109 | 10 |
Amogh Kulkarni | The Aum-Wein Drinchard by Amogh Tutuola | JJaryland | 114 | 10 |
Isaac Kirk-Davidoff | Parden the Interruption | 1.g4 Test Mixture | 114 | 10 |
Sam Moore | Heat-Oppressed Brains | A VK a Day Keeps the Doctor Away | 119 | 10 |
Nathan Zhang | Naocissus and Geoldmond by Hermandrew Hesse | chamPAIN and cornHELL in Columbia | 119 | 10 |
Jordan Brownstein | JinAh and Jordan from Wikiquiz | mnemonists | 119 | 10 |
Eylon Caplan | malcolm in the middlemarch (Purdue 1) | purdoobie brothers | 122 | 10 |
Arya Karthik | Sandmännchen im Helikopter | NJ TRANSit (and bobby i guess) | 124 | 10 |
Joel Miles | Riley et al. | Free-ish Agents | 124 | 10 |
Benji Nguyen | bruh | boy's jitches (ft. DMA) | 126 | 10 |
Juliet Mayer | Triple Round Robin Lovers | Clark A | 128 | 10 |
Jaimie Carlson | Labour's Lost Lovers | Clark B | 133 | 10 |
Benjamin McAvoy-Bickford | UNC A | Duke | 133 | 10 |
Milan Fernandez | Cleo: 5/7 movie | Tunks et al. | 133 | 10 |
Michael Hunding | 2 days into college and I'm 3 lectures behind | Michigan | 134 | 10 |
Eshan Pant | Let's Fighting Love | protobowling for soup | 136 | 10 |
Gabe Forrest | Williams et al. | Houston Junior College | 141 | 10 |
Daoud Jackson | You, Me and the Big G | Eugene o'Negging | 144 | 10 |
John Stathis | UNC Hunny | UNC B | 146 | 10 |