Question

According to its author, a line of poetry about this phenomenon quotes from a translation by Henry Clarke Warren. In another poem by that author, a “dove descending breaks the air / With” this phenomenon (10[1])“of incandescent terror.” That author included a line about this phenomenon between two quotations from St. Augustine’s Confessions: (-5[1])“To Carthage then I came” and “O Lord Thou pluckest me out.” (10[2])After (10[2]-5[2])a two-line quotation from Julian of Norwich, the declaration that all will be well when this phenomenon (-5[2])“and the rose are one” (10[1])closes (10[3])“Little Gidding.” A section titled (10[1]-5[1])for this phenomenon includes the lines, (-5[1])“Twit twit twit (-5[1])/ Jug jug jug jug jug jug,” and is directly followed by “Death by Water” and “What the Thunder Said.” (10[2])For 10 points, (10[2])the third section of T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land (-5[1])is a Buddha-inspired sermon about what phenomenon? ■END■ (10[7]0[4])

ANSWER: fire [or flames; or burning; accept tongues of flames]
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Summary

2025 ACF Nationals04/19/2025Y2488%0%38%106.24

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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Cade ReinbergerRITMaryland3410
Albert Yingzhi NyangLSEYale52-5
Noah ChinVirginia TechChicago B6410
Joel MilesMinnesotaMIT6410
Thomas TibbettsUCFVirginia65-5
Jim FanNorth Carolina AWUSTL A6510
Jakob MyersIndianaChicago A6510
Rachel FanousMichiganIllinois B65-5
Mitch McCullarPenn StateGeorgia State82-5
Rosa XiaCornell AToronto C82-5
Sinecio MoralesJohns HopkinsTexas8710
Eshan PantNYUOttawa8810
Charles YoungColumbia AToronto A8810
Andrew WangIllinois AWaterloo A8810
Shourjo GanguliOhio StateColumbia B93-5
Ryan SunUC Berkeley BWaterloo B9310
Kevin WangGeorgia TechToronto B99-5
Andrew ZengStanfordUC Berkeley A102-5
Joy AnHarvardIowa State12210
Henry BonWinona StateNorth Carolina B12210
John John GrogerWUSTL BFlorida12510
Aum MundheRutgersNorthwestern12510
Tai BelkeBritish ColumbiaArizona State135-5
Bryan UgazArizona StateBritish Columbia14310
Sarod NoriCornell BVanderbilt14310
Gavin MarkoffVanderbiltCornell B1430
Derek ChenColumbia BOhio State1430
Arjun KalaIllinois BMichigan14310
Nathaniel HullUC Berkeley AStanford14310
Raymond ChenToronto BGeorgia Tech14310
Joseph ChambersVirginiaUCF1430
Ben WismathToronto CCornell A14310
William OrrYaleLSE1430
Amogh KulkarniGeorgia StatePenn State14310