Question
This language was used for a poem that anatomically breaks down the parts of an animal from her “supple” backbone to her “well-knit” joints. A poem in this language describes how traces of a loved one are “woven by the north wind and the south wind.” An author in this language wrote “wine poems,” such as one that notes, “Don't cry for” the title woman. The speaker says “Stop Remember Weep” in one of seven poems in this language hung from a (*) building called the “Suspended Odes.” Odes originally in this language called qasida (“kah-SEE-dah”) often include descriptions of horses. The Farsi poem Layla and Majnun was adapted from a 7th-century poem in this country. Before spreading to the Indian subcontinent, ghazals were written in this language. For 10 points, name this language of Imru' al-Qais (“ahl-KYE-is”), a pre-Islamic poet. ■END■
Summary
2024 Penn Bowl Playtest | 10/12/2024 | N | 2 | 100% | 50% | 50% | 75.00 |
2024 Penn Bowl UK | 10/26/2024 | Y | 5 | 100% | 20% | 0% | 102.40 |
2024 Penn Bowl UNC | 10/26/2024 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 119.67 |
2024 Penn Bowl Harvard | 10/26/2024 | Y | 4 | 75% | 0% | 50% | 124.00 |
2024 Penn Bowl Florida | 10/26/2024 | Y | 2 | 50% | 0% | 50% | 137.00 |
2024 Penn Bowl Texas | 11/02/2024 | N | 2 | 100% | 50% | 0% | 75.50 |
2024 Penn Bowl Berkeley | 11/02/2024 | N | 2 | 100% | 50% | 0% | 70.00 |
2024 Penn Bowl CWRU | 11/02/2024 | N | 4 | 75% | 0% | 25% | 122.00 |
2024 Penn Bowl Chicago | 11/02/2024 | N | 8 | 88% | 0% | 63% | 112.00 |
2024 Penn Bowl Mainsite | 11/02/2024 | N | 3 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 119.67 |
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Jim Fan | UNC B | UNC A | 60 | -5 |
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Ace Chun | MIT | BU | 91 | -5 |
Joy An | Harvard A | Yale A | 96 | 10 |
Rasheeq Azad | UNC C | RIT A | 96 | 10 |
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Oscar Siddle | Limp Chriskit | See it | 122 | 10 |
Kayla Drajpuch | Brandeis | Tufts | 125 | -5 |
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Eileen Peng | Oxford School for Quizness | The Crying of Team 49 | 125 | 10 |
Jacob Egol | Duke A | Virginia Tech A | 125 | 10 |
Graham Cope | UF C | UCF | 137 | 10 |
Ethan Linn | Tufts | Brandeis | 138 | 10 |
Eren Michelet | BU | MIT | 138 | 0 |
Jerry Zhang | Harvard B | Yale B | 138 | 10 |
Vincent Du | UNC A | UNC B | 138 | 10 |