This character says it is “great bliss for a man to love them well and believe them not” in a monologue about how “womens’ wiles” ruined Adam, Solomon, and Samson. A lengthy dressing scene assigns concordances like the Five Wounds of Christ to the pentangle on this character’s shield. Simon Armitage’s introduction to his translation of one poem notes that this character’s name must be pronounced as both an iamb and a trochee to preserve meter in bob and wheel sections. This character returns three kisses received from a woman and obtains her magic girdle. In a circa 1400 poem, this nephew of King Arthur travels to a northern chapel to finish a game with a figure he had beheaded at Christmas. For 10 points, what character titles a Middle English poem with the Green Knight? ■END■
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 83% | 0% | 17% | 72.80 |
| Midwest | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 69.33 |
| Northeast | 2025-02-01 | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 91.25 |
| Overflow | 2025-02-01 | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 75.50 |
| Pacific Northwest | 2025-02-01 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 84.00 |
| UK | 2025-02-01 | Y | 10 | 100% | 0% | 10% | 78.70 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 50% | 107.50 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ned Tagtmeier | Chicago A | Indiana A | 47 | 10 |
| Michael Hunding | Illinois A | Illinois B | 48 | 10 |
| Ben LaFond | Cambridge B | Manchester | 48 | 10 |
| Louis Cameron | Cambridge E | Warwick B | 48 | 10 |
| Chris Yoo | William & Mary | South Carolina | 48 | 10 |
| John John Groger | WashU B | Chicago B | 48 | 10 |
| Jon Suh | Harvard A | MIT A | 48 | 10 |
| Nathan Zhang | Cornell B | Yale A | 48 | -5 |
| Aidan Jones | Liberty A | UNC C | 48 | 10 |
| Joseph Chambers | Virginia A | UNC B | 48 | 10 |
| David Bass | Johns Hopkins A | Haverford A | 50 | -5 |
| Ian McDowell | Cambridge C | Sheffield | 52 | 10 |
| Arya Karthik | Oxford A | Imperial A | 57 | -5 |
| Sam McNamee | Notre Dame A | Northwestern B | 57 | 10 |
| Roselyn Daffin | Southampton A | Oxford B | 62 | 10 |
| Elizabeth Bowling | Indiana B | Missoui S&T | 65 | 10 |
| Hamish Campbell | Durham | Oxford C | 69 | 10 |
| James McCurley | Harvard B | Tufts A | 72 | 10 |
| Ben Koberlein | Notre Dame B | Georgetown B | 74 | 10 |
| Noah Chin | Virginia Tech A | Wake Forest | 80 | -5 |
| Christopher Sims | Northwestern A | Iowa | 80 | 10 |
| Gus Vanskike | Maryland B | Columbia B | 80 | -5 |
| Tai Belke | UBC | UW B | 83 | 10 |
| Truman Fillbrandt | UW A | Alberta | 85 | 10 |
| Albert Nyang | LSE | Cambridge A | 87 | 10 |
| Annabelle Yang | WashU A | Missouri | 89 | 10 |
| Isaac Mammel | Maryland A | Penn A | 89 | 10 |
| Sam Macchi | Vassar A | NYU B | 89 | 10 |
| Ivan Stanisavljevic | Duke | Liberty C | 89 | 10 |
| Andrew Zeng | Stanford B | Purdue | 91 | 10 |
| Ryan Rosenberg | NYU A | Penn B | 91 | 10 |
| Jacob Hardin-Bernhardt | NYU C | Imperial B | 94 | 10 |
| Adsayan Ganesh | Warwick A | Cambridge D | 94 | 10 |
| William Groger | Columbia B | Maryland B | 99 | 10 |
| Lily Morris | Bristol | Southampton B | 107 | 10 |
| Derek Chen | Columbia C | Rutgers A | 107 | 10 |
| Jem Burch | Yale A | Cornell B | 113 | 10 |
| Alvin Guo | Chicago D | Illinois C | 119 | 10 |
| Megan Wang | Brown A | Brandeis B | 119 | 10 |
| Rahim Dina | Imperial A | Oxford A | 126 | 10 |
| Eren Michelet | BU | UMass Boston | 126 | 10 |
| William Broker | Haverford B | George Washington B | 131 | -5 |
| Miller Doerr | Liberty B | UNC D | 131 | 10 |
| Peter Lutz | George Washington B | Haverford B | 136 | 10 |
| Audrey Cho | Haverford A | Johns Hopkins A | 136 | 10 |