The speaker asks the addressee to “come to my bed, / As [this figure] appeared to [this figure’s lover]” at the beginning of Victor Hugo’s poem “Oh! quand je dors.” The speaker describes “see[ing] without eyes” because of this figure after claiming “I find no peace, and yet I make no war” in a poem that inspired a Thomas Wyatt adaptation. Figures like Death and Love are battled before an author reunites with this woman in a series of poems titled Triumphs. The (*) “lovely eyes” of this figure captivate the speaker of one poem on “that day when the sun’s ray / was darkened in pity for its Maker.” The speaker describes “those sighs on which I fed my heart” in a sonnet dedicated to this woman that opens “You who hear the sound, in scattered rhymes.” For 10 points, name this dedicatee of Petrarch’s Il Canzoniere. ■END■
| 2025 PLAYTIME Online | 04/26/2025 | Y | 9 | 100% | 67% | 11% | 84.67 |
| 2024 PLAYTIME @ Harvard | 04/26/2025 | Y | 4 | 75% | 25% | 25% | 102.67 |
| 2024 PLAYTIME @ Virginia Tech | 07/11/2025 | Y | 3 | 100% | 33% | 0% | 100.33 |
| 2024 PLAYTIME @ UBC | 10/05/2024 | Y | 8 | 100% | 13% | 13% | 114.38 |
| 2024 PLAYTIME @ WashU | 10/12/2024 | Y | 6 | 83% | 33% | 17% | 87.80 |
| 2024 PLAYTIME @ JHU | 10/26/2024 | Y | 6 | 83% | 0% | 0% | 119.60 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ Northwest | 12/10/2024 | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 25% | 131.75 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ Claremont | 12/10/2024 | Y | 5 | 80% | 0% | 40% | 139.50 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ Florida | 12/10/2024 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 109.00 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ CWRU | 12/10/2024 | Y | 5 | 40% | 20% | 60% | 91.00 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ Sheffield | 12/10/2024 | Y | 7 | 71% | 0% | 0% | 127.60 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Connor Rankin | UCSD | girl 15 whale i mean they | 54 | -5 |
| Shishir Bharadwaj | Lexington | MIT | 60 | 15 |
| Bryan Ugaz | Arizona State University A | UW B | 60 | -5 |
| Stan | Gruh | Four Generalists in Search of a Power | 60 | 15 |
| Chris Yoo | Mahjonng Masters | Illinois Orange | 60 | 15 |
| Jacob Finley | Notre Dame + Epic Games | mongeese | 63 | 15 |
| Nathaniel Hull | Egypt Airlines Haters | Monsieur Hulot's Academic Team | 65 | 15 |
| Benjamin Chapman | Toronto B | Toronto C | 65 | 15 |
| Pradyumna Krishna | MSJ | Quatumvirate | 65 | 15 |
| Henry Bylinowski | Auburn 2026 | we need new names | 67 | 15 |
| Noah Chin | Even in Blacksburg There I Am | Ashurbanipal’s Drag Race | 67 | 15 |
| Kevin Ye | Simon Fraser | Waterloo B | 74 | -5 |
| Neal Joshi | WashU Bulbasaur | Illinois A | 74 | 15 |
| Ian Tullis | Art of Premature Signaling | UCSB | 77 | -5 |
| Arjun Kala | Illinois B | WashU Squirtle | 79 | 15 |
| Ariel Faeder | Pittsburgh | Ohio State B | 82 | 15 |
| Seth Kendall | Billy's Bastion | Keeping Up With the Cardassians | 84 | 10 |
| Logan Mathis | SIUE | Chicago B | 86 | 10 |
| Padraig Finan | Washington Connections | Carleton | 88 | 10 |
| Hazel DePreist-Sullivan | evil women enjoyers | Trip-Hop Quizzer Tricky | 88 | 10 |
| Ishan Joshi | Toronto Metropolitan | Mac A | 90 | 10 |
| Anh Khoa Tran | Qin Shi Huang's Immortality Poison | Edwin Laundrorat's Long-Lost Man Unclothès Rat Degrosses | 91 | -5 |
| Rohan Navaneetha | Ohio State D | Michigan D | 93 | -5 |
| Eric Mukherjee | Mike Dukakis Tank Battalion | Free Agents 1 | 93 | -5 |
| Amir Dolansky | Toronto D | McGill B | 94 | 10 |
| Megan Wang | Brown | Brandeis | 96 | -5 |
| Eshan Pant | NYU A | NYU C | 99 | 10 |
| Thomas Tibbetts | Too much from you lately | Project2025BC: Make Assyria Great Again | 99 | 10 |
| Kevin Zheng | Michigan A | Oberlin | 100 | -5 |
| Roxanne Tang | Ohio State A | Ohio State C | 100 | 10 |
| Jim Fan | Master and Margaritaville | 4 quizbowl pros go Virginia on North Carolina | 100 | 10 |
| Braden Booth | Missouri | Iowa State | 100 | 10 |
| Fred Garvey | Truman State | Chicago A | 100 | 10 |
| Antoni Kluzowski | Warwick A | Manchester | 100 | 10 |
| Cade Reinberger | RIT | Harvard | 102 | 10 |
| Biyang Zhang | Michigan B | Michigan C | 103 | -5 |
| Parth Jagtap | Toronto A | Waterloo A | 103 | 10 |
| Isobel Dobbie | Sheffield | LSE | 108 | 10 |
| Isaac Mammel | Maryland A | Catholic University of America | 115 | 10 |
| Avery Barnett | Haverford B | Georgetown | 125 | 10 |
| Jason Cheng | P.C.‚ Daniel‚ Michel‚ and Jason B | UCLA B | 126 | 10 |
| Gus Vanskike | Maryland B | George Mason A | 128 | 10 |
| Sai Subramanian | CWRU | Rutgers | 131 | 10 |
| Ryan Rosenberg | Adrianne Lenker 4 Nobel Lit Prize 2K65 | Somehow Paula Deen Returned | 134 | 10 |
| Nick Edwards | McGill A | Waterloo C | 135 | 10 |
| John John Groger | WashU Charmander | Illinois C | 136 | -5 |
| Jesse Chusing | Ottawa A | Toronto E | 136 | 10 |
| Adsayan Ganesh | Warwick B | Warwick C | 139 | 10 |
| Nolan Dannels | girl 15 whale i mean they | UCSD | 142 | 10 |
| Vivian Fan | Claremont A | Caltech | 144 | 10 |
| Tracy Mirkin | Edwin Laundrorat's Long-Lost Man Unclothès Rat Degrosses | Qin Shi Huang's Immortality Poison | 144 | 10 |
| Tai Belke | UBC | Guelph | 145 | 10 |
| Andrew Fisher | Sheffield B | Sheffield C | 145 | 10 |
| Kayla Drajpuch | Brandeis | Brown | 146 | 10 |
| Sasha Fillbrandt | UW B | Arizona State University A | 146 | 10 |
| Anne Fjeld | Alberta | UW A | 146 | 10 |
| Freddie O’Hara | UCLA A | Claremont B | 146 | 10 |
| Percy Yuen | Cambridge | Birmingham | 146 | 10 |
| Gregory Zeldovich | Belmont | BU | 147 | 0 |
| Eren Michelet | BU | Belmont | 147 | 0 |
| Aditya Shivaswamy | Johns Hopkins A | George Mason C | 147 | 0 |
| Hazel Reed | George Mason C | Johns Hopkins A | 147 | 0 |
| James O'Reilly | Arizona State University B | South Dakota School of Mines | 147 | 10 |
| Micah Colman | Waterloo B | Simon Fraser | 147 | 10 |
| Ethan Ma | Illinois C | WashU Charmander | 147 | 0 |
| Joseph Chambers | Free Agents 1 | Mike Dukakis Tank Battalion | 147 | 10 |
| Sam Stella | 2 Italians, 2 Poles, All Noles | Goober Gang | 147 | 10 |
| Lovel Hearn | Edinburgh | Imperial A | 147 | 0 |
| Paphon Susikakosol | Imperial A | Edinburgh | 147 | 0 |
| Eloise Wood | Imperial B | Lancaster | 147 | 0 |
| Eoin Neale | Lancaster | Imperial B | 147 | 0 |