Question
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■
Summary
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 |
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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Ned Tagtmeier | Chicago A | Indiana A | 47 | 10 |
Aidan Jones | Liberty A | UNC C | 48 | 10 |
Joseph Chambers | Virginia A | UNC B | 48 | 10 |
Chris Yoo | William & Mary | South Carolina | 48 | 10 |
John John Groger | WashU B | Chicago B | 48 | 10 |
Michael Hunding | Illinois A | Illinois B | 48 | 10 |
Jon Suh | Harvard A | MIT A | 48 | 10 |
Ben LaFond | Cambridge B | Manchester | 48 | 10 |
Louis Cameron | Cambridge E | Warwick B | 48 | 10 |
Nathan Zhang | Cornell B | Yale A | 48 | -5 |
David Bass | Johns Hopkins A | Haverford A | 50 | -5 |
Ian McDowell | Cambridge C | Sheffield | 52 | 10 |
Sam McNamee | Notre Dame A | Northwestern B | 57 | 10 |
Arya Karthik | Oxford A | Imperial A | 57 | -5 |
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 |
Ivan Stanisavljevic | Duke | Liberty C | 89 | 10 |
Annabelle Yang | WashU A | Missouri | 89 | 10 |
Sam Macchi | Vassar A | NYU B | 89 | 10 |
Isaac Mammel | Maryland A | Penn A | 89 | 10 |
Andrew Zeng | Stanford B | Purdue | 91 | 10 |
Ryan Rosenberg | NYU A | Penn B | 91 | 10 |
Adsayan Ganesh | Warwick A | Cambridge D | 94 | 10 |
Jacob Hardin-Bernhardt | NYU C | Imperial B | 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 |
Eren Michelet | BU | UMass Boston | 126 | 10 |
Rahim Dina | Imperial A | Oxford A | 126 | 10 |
Miller Doerr | Liberty B | UNC D | 131 | 10 |
William Broker | Haverford B | George Washington B | 131 | -5 |
Audrey Cho | Haverford A | Johns Hopkins A | 136 | 10 |
Peter Lutz | George Washington B | Haverford B | 136 | 10 |