“Meditations in an Emergency” - 2024 PLAYTIME

Question

The speaker of this poem says, “Why should I share you? Why don’t you get rid of someone else for a change?” For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this poem by the author of Lunch Poems, Frank O’Hara, which opens, “Am I to become profligate as if I were a blonde?” This poem titles a 1957 O’Hara collection.

ANSWER: “Meditations in an Emergency”

[10e] “Meditations in an Emergency” was originally titled in reference to Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions by this author. This Metaphysical poet wrote the Holy Sonnets.

ANSWER: John Donne (The poem was originally titled “Meditations on Re-emergent Occasions.”)

[10m] In an O’Hara poem titled for one of these objects, the speaker says, “I want to be at least as alive as the vulgar.” In the first line of Holy Sonnet XIV (“14”), the speaker makes a request to "three-person'd God" about one of these objects.

ANSWER: heart [accept “My Heart” or “Batter my heart, three-person’d God”]

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Summary


2025 PLAYTIME @ CWRU	12/10/2024	Y	2	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Claremont	12/10/2024	Y	5	18.00	80%	60%	40%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Florida	12/10/2024	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Florida	12/10/2024	Y	1	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 PLAYTIME @ Harvard	04/26/2025	Y	4	17.50	100%	75%	0%
2024 PLAYTIME @ JHU	10/26/2024	Y	4	12.50	100%	25%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Northwest	12/10/2024	Y	3	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME Online	04/26/2025	Y	9	18.89	100%	89%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Sheffield	12/10/2024	Y	4	12.50	100%	25%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Sheffield	12/10/2024	Y	1	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 PLAYTIME @ Virginia Tech	07/11/2025	Y	3	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 PLAYTIME @ WashU	10/12/2024	Y	6	18.33	100%	83%	0%

Data


Michigan A	Michigan B	0	10	10	20
Pittsburgh	Oberlin	0	10	10	20
Art of Premature Signaling	Caltech	10	10	10	30
Claremont A	Claremont B	0	10	0	10
UCLA A	UCLA B	0	10	10	20
UCSB	UCSD	10	0	0	10
girl 15 whale i mean they	P.C.‚ Daniel‚ Michel‚ and Jason B	0	10	10	20
Billy's Bastion	Qin Shi Huang's Immortality Poison	0	10	10	20
Edwin Laundrorat's Long-Lost Man Unclothès Rat Degrosses	Too much from you lately	0	10	0	10
BU	Belmont	0	10	0	10
Brandeis	Harvard	0	10	10	20
Lexington	Brown	0	10	10	20
MIT	RIT	0	10	10	20
CWRU	Johns Hopkins A	0	10	0	10
George Washington	NYU B	0	10	0	10
Georgetown	Maryland A	0	10	10	20
Rutgers	Haverford A	0	10	0	10
UW A	Alberta	0	10	10	20
Arizona State University A	Washington Connections	0	10	10	20
UW B	Carleton	0	10	10	20
mongeese	2 Italians, 2 Poles, All Noles	0	10	10	20
Egypt Airlines Haters	Free Agents 1	0	10	0	10
Four Generalists in Search of a Power	Illinois Orange	0	10	10	20
Goober Gang	MSJ	0	10	10	20
Gruh	Auburn 2026	0	10	10	20
we need new names	Mahjonng Masters	0	10	10	20
Notre Dame + Epic Games	Quatumvirate	0	10	10	20
Trip-Hop Quizzer Tricky	Mike Dukakis Tank Battalion	0	10	10	20
Monsieur Hulot's Academic Team	evil women enjoyers	0	10	10	20
Sheffield B	Sheffield A	0	10	0	10
Cambridge	Warwick B	0	10	10	20
LSE	Imperial A	0	10	0	10
Manchester	Sheffield C	0	10	0	10
Warwick A	Lancaster	0	10	0	10
4 quizbowl pros go Virginia on North Carolina	Ashurbanipal’s Drag Race	0	10	10	20
Even in Blacksburg There I Am	Adrianne Lenker 4 Nobel Lit Prize 2K65	0	10	10	20
Master and Margaritaville	Somehow Paula Deen Returned	0	10	10	20
Illinois C	Chicago B	0	10	10	20
Illinois A	Missouri	0	10	10	20
Chicago A	Iowa State	0	10	10	20
WashU Squirtle	SIUE	0	10	0	10
Truman State	WashU Bulbasaur	0	10	10	20
Illinois B	WashU Charmander	0	10	10	20
Project2025BC: Make Assyria Great Again	Keeping Up With the Cardassians	0	10	10	20