A poem in this language concludes with a sage replying, “‘It's your distracted, lovelorn heart / That asks these questions constantly.’” A quintet in this language that includes The Treasury of Mysteries also has a poem that added the king of Marv to an earlier narrative. In that poem, a character hides out in caves after going mad and later grieves over the death of (*) Layla. A section of a long epic poem in this language that ends by mentioning Alexander the Great also includes the story of a hero who is forced to complete seven labors with the horse Rakhsh and accidentally kills his son. In a couplet in this language, a yearning to return is compared to being torn off a “reed-bed.” One quatrain in this language translated by Edward Fitzgerald includes the translation “A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread—and Thou.” For 10 points, name this language of the poets Rumi and Omar Khayyam. ■END■
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| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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| Vikshar Athreya | Rutgers | NYU A | 45 | 15 |
| Abhiraam Girish | MSJ | Illinois Orange | 45 | 15 |
| CT Tang | Sheffield C | Birmingham | 57 | -5 |
| Chris Yoo | Mahjonng Masters | mongeese | 60 | 15 |
| Thomas Tibbetts | Too much from you lately | Edwin Laundrorat's Long-Lost Man Unclothès Rat Degrosses | 63 | -5 |
| Noah Chin | Even in Blacksburg There I Am | Ashurbanipal’s Drag Race | 63 | 15 |
| Aditya Patnaik | Ohio State D | Pittsburgh | 65 | 10 |
| James McCurley | Harvard | Brown | 65 | 10 |
| Bryan Ugaz | Arizona State University A | Alberta | 65 | 10 |
| Sheehan Banka | Quatumvirate | 2 Italians, 2 Poles, All Noles | 65 | 10 |
| Arjun Vijaykumar | Four Generalists in Search of a Power | Egypt Airlines Haters | 65 | 10 |
| Eric Mukherjee | Mike Dukakis Tank Battalion | evil women enjoyers | 65 | 10 |
| Shishir Bharadwaj | Lexington | Brandeis | 65 | 10 |
| Owen Arneson | Missouri | Chicago B | 66 | -5 |
| Abdelrahman Elsisi | Sheffield A | Manchester | 67 | -5 |
| Vincent Du | 4 quizbowl pros go Virginia on North Carolina | Master and Margaritaville | 67 | -5 |
| Jim Fan | Master and Margaritaville | 4 quizbowl pros go Virginia on North Carolina | 67 | 10 |
| Emmett Cho | Chicago B | WashU Bulbasaur | 67 | -5 |
| William Gillard | Warwick C | Warwick B | 70 | -5 |
| Gus Vanskike | Maryland B | Haverford A | 70 | 10 |
| Daniel Sheinberg | Trip-Hop Quizzer Tricky | we need new names | 70 | 10 |
| Tracy Mirkin | Edwin Laundrorat's Long-Lost Man Unclothès Rat Degrosses | Too much from you lately | 70 | 10 |
| Anderson Wang | Art of Premature Signaling | girl 15 whale i mean they | 71 | 10 |
| Andy Huff | LSE | Lancaster | 71 | 10 |
| Yrwin Batan | MIT | Belmont | 71 | 10 |
| Michael Hunding | Illinois A | Truman State | 72 | 10 |
| James Horsley | Iowa State | Illinois B | 74 | -5 |
| Sasha Fillbrandt | UW B | South Dakota School of Mines | 75 | 10 |
| Shiv Seshan | Cambridge | Imperial A | 75 | -5 |
| Ryan Rosenberg | Adrianne Lenker 4 Nobel Lit Prize 2K65 | Somehow Paula Deen Returned | 75 | 10 |
| Olin Bose | Free Agents 1 | Notre Dame + Epic Games | 78 | 10 |
| Todd Maslyk | Michigan A | Ohio State B | 79 | 10 |
| Jaimie Carlson | Monsieur Hulot's Academic Team | Gruh | 79 | 10 |
| Nicholas Nguyen | Keeping Up With the Cardassians | Project2025BC: Make Assyria Great Again | 84 | -5 |
| Jason | Jason B | Claremont B | 88 | 10 |
| Logan Mathis | SIUE | WashU Bulbasaur | 96 | 10 |
| Biyang Zhang | Michigan B | Ohio State C | 99 | 10 |
| Terrence Han | UCLA B | UCSB | 100 | 10 |
| Eren Michelet | Boston University | RIT | 100 | 10 |
| Arthur Zhang | NYU C | Johns Hopkins A | 101 | 10 |
| Eli Issokson | Georgetown | NYU B | 103 | 10 |
| Marcus Smith | George Mason B | Maryland A | 104 | 10 |
| Roxanne Tang | Ohio State A | Michigan D | 105 | 10 |
| Anh Khoa Tran | Qin Shi Huang's Immortality Poison | Billy's Bastion | 105 | 10 |
| Antoni Kluzowski | Warwick A | Sheffield B | 111 | 10 |
| Kethan Raman | UCLA A | Caltech | 125 | 10 |
| Henry Bylinowski | Auburn 2026 | Goober Gang | 125 | 10 |
| Arthur Gayden | Chicago A | WashU Squirtle | 128 | 10 |
| Padraig Finan | Washington Connections | UW A | 128 | 10 |
| Vivian Fan | Claremont A | UCSD | 129 | 10 |
| Neil Murphy | WashU Bulbasaur | Chicago B | 129 | 10 |
| Aaron Marchand | Carleton | Arizona State University B | 139 | 10 |
| Elie Aoun | CWRU | George Mason C | 139 | 10 |
| Hayden Prather | Project2025BC: Make Assyria Great Again | Keeping Up With the Cardassians | 144 | 10 |
| David Allen | Edinburgh | Imperial B | 155 | 10 |
| Kai Madgwick | Manchester | Sheffield A | 157 | 10 |
| Arev Lima Boudakian | Oberlin | Michigan C | 158 | 0 |
| Elijah Quan | Michigan C | Oberlin | 158 | 10 |
| Josh Howarth | Warwick B | Warwick C | 158 | 10 |
| Gus Redding | Imperial A | Cambridge | 158 | 10 |
| Dillon George | Catholic University of America | George Washington | 158 | 0 |
| Luis D'Olhaberriague | George Washington | Catholic University of America | 158 | 0 |
| Emmett Cho | Chicago B | Missouri | 159 | 10 |