After becoming a kammerjunker, this author wrote a poem whose speaker says, “It's time my friends, it's time. We long for peace of heart.” Aphrodite is addressed as a “Listless Cytherean princess” in the opening line of this poet’s “Ode to Liberty.” This poet is said to have “Fell, slandered by a gossip’s dread” after the exclamation “The Bard is killed!” references his death in Mikhail Lermontov’s “Death of the Poet.” In one of this author’s poems, a character holds on to a (*) marble lion in order to avoid being swept away by a flood. Lensky invites the title character to a name day celebration in a work by this poet that uses alternating masculine and feminine rhymes. This poet wrote about Yevgeny falling in love with Parasha in the poem The Bronze Horseman. For 10 points, name this Russian poet who wrote about the title dandy’s duel in Eugene Onegin. ■END■
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| 2024 PLAYTIME @ Virginia Tech | 07/11/2025 | Y | 3 | 100% | 67% | 0% | 64.33 |
| 2024 PLAYTIME @ UBC | 10/05/2024 | N | 8 | 100% | 75% | 0% | 75.38 |
| 2024 PLAYTIME @ WashU | 10/12/2024 | Y | 6 | 83% | 50% | 33% | 89.20 |
| 2024 PLAYTIME @ JHU | 10/26/2024 | Y | 7 | 100% | 29% | 0% | 106.00 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ Sheffield | 12/10/2024 | Y | 1 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 99.00 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ Northwest | 12/10/2024 | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 25% | 116.75 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ Claremont | 12/10/2024 | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 103.00 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ Florida | 12/10/2024 | Y | 2 | 100% | 50% | 0% | 63.50 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ Florida | 12/10/2024 | Y | 1 | 100% | 100% | 0% | 70.00 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ CWRU | 12/10/2024 | Y | 5 | 100% | 40% | 0% | 94.40 |
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| Pradyumna Krishna | MSJ | Goober Gang | 41 | 15 |
| Chris Yoo | Mahjonng Masters | we need new names | 41 | 15 |
| Shishir Bharadwaj | Lexington | Brown | 41 | -5 |
| Cole Hennessy | Qin Shi Huang's Immortality Poison | Billy's Bastion | 43 | 15 |
| Subhamitra Banerjee Roychoudhury | Somehow Paula Deen Returned | Master and Margaritaville | 43 | 15 |
| Matthew Bucek | George Mason A | George Mason C | 43 | 15 |
| Ryan Smith | mongeese | 2 Italians, 2 Poles, All Noles | 45 | 15 |
| Braden Booth | Missouri | Illinois A | 47 | 15 |
| Daniel Merida | Four Generalists in Search of a Power | Illinois Orange | 48 | 15 |
| Brendan Bethlehem | Cambridge | Warwick B | 49 | 15 |
| Arjun Kala | Illinois B | WashU Charmander | 56 | 15 |
| Noah Chin | Even in Blacksburg There I Am | Adrianne Lenker 4 Nobel Lit Prize 2K65 | 60 | 15 |
| Liam Starnes | Chicago A | Iowa State | 60 | -5 |
| Ariel Faeder | Pittsburgh | Oberlin | 65 | 15 |
| Neal Joshi | WashU Bulbasaur | Truman State | 70 | 15 |
| Biyang Zhang | Michigan B | Michigan A | 70 | 15 |
| Padraig Finan | Washington Connections | Arizona State University A | 70 | -5 |
| Nathaniel Hull | Egypt Airlines Haters | Free Agents 1 | 70 | 15 |
| Jacob Finley | Notre Dame + Epic Games | Quatumvirate | 70 | 15 |
| Jaimie Carlson | Monsieur Hulot's Academic Team | evil women enjoyers | 70 | 15 |
| Antoni Kluzowski | Warwick A | Lancaster | 70 | 15 |
| Leo Law | Project2025BC: Make Assyria Great Again | Keeping Up With the Cardassians | 70 | 15 |
| Elie Aoun | CWRU | Johns Hopkins A | 70 | 15 |
| Eric Mukherjee | Mike Dukakis Tank Battalion | Trip-Hop Quizzer Tricky | 75 | 15 |
| Tracy Mirkin | Edwin Laundrorat's Long-Lost Man Unclothès Rat Degrosses | Too much from you lately | 84 | 10 |
| Bryan Ugaz | Arizona State University A | Washington Connections | 86 | 10 |
| Rohan Navaneetha | Ohio State D | Ohio State C | 87 | 10 |
| Dmitri Tran | UCSB | UCSD | 88 | 10 |
| Nolan Dannels | girl 15 whale i mean they | P.C.‚ Daniel‚ Michel‚ and Jason B | 88 | 10 |
| Sam Matson | Ashurbanipal’s Drag Race | 4 quizbowl pros go Virginia on North Carolina | 90 | 10 |
| Joy An | Harvard | Brandeis | 90 | 10 |
| Michael Pu | Gruh | Auburn 2026 | 91 | 10 |
| Yrwin Batan | MIT | RIT | 91 | 10 |
| Kevin He | Johns Hopkins B | Haverford B | 92 | 10 |
| Anderson Wang | Art of Premature Signaling | Caltech | 94 | 10 |
| Sasha Fillbrandt | UW B | Carleton | 94 | 10 |
| Teddy Fogel | Birmingham | Imperial B | 94 | -5 |
| Kai Madgwick | Manchester | Sheffield C | 94 | 10 |
| Ivan Karp | UCLA A | UCLA B | 95 | 10 |
| Matthew Lam | Ohio State B | Ohio State A | 99 | 10 |
| Abdelrahman Elsisi | Sheffield A | Sheffield B | 99 | 10 |
| Andy Yu | Maryland A | Georgetown | 114 | 10 |
| Andre Wong | LSE | Imperial A | 114 | 10 |
| Gregory Zeldovich | Belmont | BU | 114 | 10 |
| Lovel Hearn | Edinburgh | Warwick C | 117 | 10 |
| Vikshar Athreya | Rutgers | Haverford A | 122 | 10 |
| Logan Mathis | SIUE | WashU Squirtle | 125 | -5 |
| Samarth Ram | Chicago B | Illinois C | 136 | 10 |
| Liam Markland | Alberta | UW A | 136 | 10 |
| Guy Indorante | Iowa State | Chicago A | 137 | 10 |
| Annika Larson | Claremont B | Claremont A | 150 | 10 |
| Gus Vanskike | Maryland B | NYU C | 150 | 10 |
| June Yin | WashU Squirtle | SIUE | 151 | 0 |
| Nathan Ouyang | Michigan C | Michigan D | 151 | 10 |
| Eric Anderson | South Dakota School of Mines | Arizona State University B | 151 | 10 |
| Megan Wang | Brown | Lexington | 151 | 10 |
| Nate Kang | NYU B | George Washington | 151 | 10 |