A poem in this collection dedicated to its author’s children describes the cries of a newborn with the line “The clear vowels rise like balloons.” This collection includes a poem that asks if a suit is “waterproof, shatterproof” as part of an interview that casts a man looking for a wife as a job applicant. A 2004 edition of this collection includes the poem “The Other,” whose title references Assia Wevill. This collection includes the poem “Morning Song” along with one whose speaker claims “I am nobody; I have nothing to do with explosions” and describes flowers that (*) “eat my oxygen.” One poem in this collection uses a racial slur to describe blackberries and opens “Stasis in darkness.” This collection is titled for that poem, whose speaker unpeels “White / Godiva” and describes a “red / Eye, the cauldron of morning.” For 10 points, name this collection including “Tulips” and “Daddy” by Sylvia Plath. ■END■
| 2025 PLAYTIME Online | 04/26/2025 | Y | 9 | 100% | 33% | 11% | 94.67 |
| 2024 PLAYTIME @ Harvard | 04/26/2025 | Y | 4 | 100% | 25% | 0% | 101.50 |
| 2024 PLAYTIME @ Virginia Tech | 07/11/2025 | Y | 3 | 67% | 33% | 33% | 99.00 |
| 2024 PLAYTIME @ UBC | 10/05/2024 | Y | 8 | 75% | 25% | 25% | 101.17 |
| 2024 PLAYTIME @ WashU | 10/12/2024 | Y | 6 | 83% | 17% | 0% | 111.80 |
| 2024 PLAYTIME @ JHU | 10/26/2024 | Y | 6 | 50% | 0% | 17% | 135.33 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ Sheffield | 12/10/2024 | Y | 1 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 151.00 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ Northwest | 12/10/2024 | Y | 4 | 75% | 0% | 0% | 106.67 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ Claremont | 12/10/2024 | Y | 4 | 100% | 25% | 0% | 105.50 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ Florida | 12/10/2024 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 127.00 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ Florida | 12/10/2024 | Y | 1 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 100.00 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ CWRU | 12/10/2024 | Y | 5 | 60% | 0% | 0% | 103.33 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ Sheffield | 12/10/2024 | Y | 5 | 80% | 0% | 0% | 150.00 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anderson Wang | Art of Premature Signaling | Claremont A | 24 | 15 |
| Winnie Nutkowitz | Illinois Orange | Gruh | 25 | 15 |
| Jim Fan | Master and Margaritaville | Even in Blacksburg There I Am | 46 | 15 |
| Chris Yoo | Mahjonng Masters | Mike Dukakis Tank Battalion | 47 | 15 |
| Amir Dolansky | Toronto D | Toronto Metropolitan | 54 | 15 |
| Henry Bylinowski | Auburn 2026 | evil women enjoyers | 60 | 15 |
| Guy Indorante | Iowa State | Missouri | 63 | 15 |
| Joy An | Harvard | Belmont | 65 | 15 |
| Audrey Cho | Haverford B | George Washington | 72 | -5 |
| Halee Carey | Mac A | McGill A | 82 | 15 |
| Tony Chen | Toronto B | Toronto E | 93 | -5 |
| Fierro Grey | we need new names | 2 Italians, 2 Poles, All Noles | 97 | -5 |
| Michael Hunding | Illinois A | Chicago A | 98 | 10 |
| Philip Yao | Brown | MIT | 100 | 10 |
| Bryan Ugaz | Arizona State University A | UW B | 100 | 10 |
| Pradyumna Krishna | MSJ | Notre Dame + Epic Games | 100 | 10 |
| Shahar Schwartz | Egypt Airlines Haters | Trip-Hop Quizzer Tricky | 100 | 10 |
| Yashwanth Bajji | Michigan A | Michigan C | 100 | 10 |
| Eshan Pant | NYU A | CWRU | 100 | 10 |
| Arjun Vijaykumar | Four Generalists in Search of a Power | Quatumvirate | 100 | 10 |
| Tracy Mirkin | Edwin Laundrorat's Long-Lost Man Unclothès Rat Degrosses | Project2025BC: Make Assyria Great Again | 100 | 10 |
| Cole Hennessy | Qin Shi Huang's Immortality Poison | Keeping Up With the Cardassians | 100 | 10 |
| Arjun Kala | Illinois B | WashU Bulbasaur | 101 | 10 |
| Anne Fjeld | Alberta | South Dakota School of Mines | 102 | 10 |
| Ariel Faeder | Pittsburgh | Ohio State A | 105 | 10 |
| Kayla Drajpuch | Brandeis | RIT | 105 | 10 |
| Biyang Zhang | Michigan B | Ohio State D | 105 | 10 |
| Jason Cheng | P.C.‚ Daniel‚ Michel‚ and Jason B | UCLA A | 105 | 10 |
| Raymond Chen | Toronto C | UBC | 105 | 10 |
| Jared He | Waterloo A | McGill B | 105 | 10 |
| Caleb Ott | Waterloo B | Guelph | 107 | 10 |
| Ryan Smith | mongeese | Goober Gang | 112 | 10 |
| James O'Reilly | Arizona State University B | Washington Connections | 118 | 10 |
| Shishir Bharadwaj | Lexington | BU | 136 | 10 |
| Nolan Dannels | girl 15 whale i mean they | Claremont B | 140 | 10 |
| Fred Garvey | Truman State | WashU Charmander | 143 | 10 |
| Percy Yuen | Cambridge | Lancaster | 143 | 10 |
| Vasa Clarke | Somehow Paula Deen Returned | 4 quizbowl pros go Virginia on North Carolina | 150 | -5 |
| Kai Madgwick | Manchester | Warwick A | 151 | 10 |
| Lovel Hearn | Edinburgh | Sheffield C | 152 | 10 |
| Gus Vanskike | Maryland B | George Mason C | 152 | 10 |
| Andre Wong | LSE | Sheffield B | 152 | 10 |
| Kevin Ye | Simon Fraser | Ottawa A | 152 | -5 |
| Sam Matson | Ashurbanipal’s Drag Race | Adrianne Lenker 4 Nobel Lit Prize 2K65 | 152 | 10 |
| Isobel Dobbie | Sheffield A | Birmingham | 153 | 10 |
| Alex Salcido | UCSB | Caltech | 153 | 10 |
| Stefan Vlad | Ottawa A | Simon Fraser | 153 | 0 |
| Elise Wettach | Oberlin | Michigan D | 154 | 0 |
| Jacob Goodson | Ohio State B | Ohio State C | 154 | 0 |
| Vikshar Athreya | Rutgers | George Mason A | 154 | 0 |
| James Meek | George Mason A | Rutgers | 154 | 0 |
| Luis D'Olhaberriague | George Washington | Haverford B | 154 | 0 |
| Yaj Jhajhria | UW A | Carleton | 154 | 0 |
| Aaron Marchand | Carleton | UW A | 154 | 0 |
| Joseph Collins | Imperial A | Warwick B | 154 | 0 |
| Nate Kang | NYU B | Maryland A | 154 | 0 |
| Isaac Mammel | Maryland A | NYU B | 154 | 0 |
| Ethan Furman | Haverford A | NYU C | 154 | 10 |
| Jaimie Carlson | Monsieur Hulot's Academic Team | Free Agents 1 | 154 | 10 |
| Robert Szot | 2 Italians, 2 Poles, All Noles | we need new names | 154 | 10 |
| Billy Beyer | Billy's Bastion | Too much from you lately | 154 | 10 |
| Xavier Spano | Waterloo C | Toronto A | 154 | 0 |
| Parth Jagtap | Toronto A | Waterloo C | 154 | 0 |
| Liam Austin | Toronto E | Toronto B | 154 | 10 |
| Vincent Du | 4 quizbowl pros go Virginia on North Carolina | Somehow Paula Deen Returned | 154 | 0 |
| Emmett Cho | Chicago B | SIUE | 154 | 10 |
| David Zhang | Illinois C | WashU Squirtle | 154 | 0 |
| Gavin Wagner | WashU Squirtle | Illinois C | 154 | 0 |
| Josh Howarth | Warwick B | Imperial A | 154 | 0 |