Samoa - 2024 PLAYTIME - Buzzpoints App

Question

A poet born in this present-day country detailed his country’s founding in the first section of his poem “Inside Us the Dead.” For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this birth country of Albert Wendt. A tombstone for Robert Louis Stevenson, who died in this country, is inscribed with a poem claiming “This be the verse you grave for me/Here he lies where he longed to be.”

ANSWER: Samoa [or Independent State of Samoa or Malo Sa’oloto Tuto’atasi o Somoa; accept Western Samoa; reject “American Samoa”]

[10e] The poem on Robert Louis Stevenson’s tombstone was the source of the title of this British poet’s poem “This Be the Verse.”

ANSWER: Philip Larkin [or Philip Arthur Larkin]

[10m] This other British poet visited Stevenson’s house in Samoa before going off to fight in World War I. This poet of “Tiare Tahiti” wrote “there’s some corner of a foreign field/that is for ever England” in “The Soldier.”

ANSWER: Rupert Brooke [or Rupert Chawner Brooke]

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Summary


2025 PLAYTIME @ CWRU	12/10/2024	Y	5	8.00	80%	0%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Claremont	12/10/2024	Y	5	12.00	60%	40%	20%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Florida	12/10/2024	Y	3	26.67	100%	100%	67%
2024 PLAYTIME @ Harvard	04/26/2025	Y	4	10.00	50%	25%	25%
2024 PLAYTIME @ JHU	10/26/2024	Y	4	10.00	50%	25%	25%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Northwest	12/10/2024	Y	4	2.50	25%	0%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME Online	04/26/2025	Y	9	16.67	100%	44%	22%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Sheffield	12/10/2024	Y	7	11.43	71%	14%	29%
2024 PLAYTIME @ UBC	10/05/2024	Y	8	17.50	100%	63%	13%
2024 PLAYTIME @ Virginia Tech	07/11/2025	Y	3	23.33	100%	100%	33%
2024 PLAYTIME @ WashU	10/12/2024	Y	6	10.00	83%	17%	0%

Data


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