Question
A poem addressing this city remarks, “The geography of my body changes. / The cells of my blood become green. / My alphabet is green.” “Poems become diaphanous (“dye-AFF-uh-nuss”)” in this city in a poem titled for its “Collar of the Dove” that provides the title of the collection The Butterfly’s Burden. The erotic collection Childhood of a Breast is by a poet from this city who wrote of its “Jasmine Scent,” Nizar Qabbani. A modernist 1963 collection titled for this city includes “The Wound” in its section “The Sorcerer of Dust,” envisions a “New Noah,” and opens each section with a prose “Psalm.” An imaginary king of this capital city was created by a poet from here who called it “something / of the wind” in the poem “A Grave for New York.” For 10 points, the collection Songs of Mihyar depicts what city, the capital of the home country of the poet Adunis? ■END■
Summary
2025 ACF Nationals | 04/19/2025 | Y | 24 | 71% | 0% | 46% | 138.82 |
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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Andrew Wang | Illinois A | Columbia A | 49 | -5 |
Jakob Myers | Indiana | UC Berkeley A | 50 | -5 |
Brian Hoff | Cornell B | Ohio State | 52 | -5 |
Amogh Kulkarni | Georgia State | LSE | 70 | 10 |
Tim Morrison | Stanford | WUSTL A | 76 | 10 |
Mitch McCullar | Penn State | Ottawa | 90 | -5 |
Michael Hunding | Illinois A | Columbia A | 90 | 0 |
Richard Niu | Cornell A | Chicago B | 132 | 10 |
Yrwin Batan | MIT | Texas | 132 | -5 |
Joel Miles | Minnesota | Georgia Tech | 132 | -5 |
Aum Mundhe | Rutgers | Waterloo A | 132 | 10 |
Anuttam Ramji | UC Berkeley B | Yale | 132 | -5 |
Micah Colman | Waterloo B | Florida | 135 | 10 |
Tony Chen | Toronto A | Chicago A | 135 | -5 |
Noah Chin | Virginia Tech | Harvard | 135 | 10 |
Moses Kitakule | Columbia A | Illinois A | 135 | 0 |
Parth Jagtap | Toronto C | Toronto B | 135 | -5 |
Thomas Tibbetts | UCF | Vanderbilt | 140 | 10 |
Jim Fan | North Carolina A | Northwestern | 141 | -5 |
Olin Bose | Columbia B | Illinois B | 153 | -5 |
Ryan Rosenberg | NYU | British Columbia | 154 | 10 |
Arjun Kala | Illinois B | Columbia B | 154 | 10 |
Shourjo Ganguli | Ohio State | Cornell B | 154 | 0 |
Nathaniel Hull | UC Berkeley A | Indiana | 154 | 0 |
Kevin Wang | Georgia Tech | Minnesota | 154 | 0 |
Conor Thompson | Iowa State | Johns Hopkins | 154 | 10 |
Nikhil Chellam | Northwestern | North Carolina A | 154 | 0 |
Graham Troy | North Carolina B | Michigan | 154 | 0 |
Henry Bon | Winona State | RIT | 154 | 10 |
Todd Maslyk | Michigan | North Carolina B | 154 | 0 |
Ned Tagtmeier | Chicago A | Toronto A | 154 | 10 |
Moses Kitakule | Columbia A | Illinois A | 154 | 10 |
Jisoo Yoo | Texas | MIT | 154 | 10 |
Raymond Chen | Toronto B | Toronto C | 154 | 0 |
Jem Burch | Yale | UC Berkeley B | 154 | 0 |
Jaik Havlick | Arizona State | WUSTL B | 154 | 10 |
Joseph Chambers | Virginia | Maryland | 154 | 10 |
Maude-Sophie Lockman | Ottawa | Penn State | 154 | 10 |