The speaker of this poem lists “the lime trees’ agitated shade” and “the thin cricket-sound / of consolation’s parting word” after realizing that “nothing I counted mine, out of my life, is mine to take.” This poem ends by imagining a monument depicting the speaker crying tears of melted snow. This poem considers how “Mary Magdalene beat her breast and sobbed” after Jesus urges, “Mother, I beg you, do not weep for me.” A woman “with lips blue from cold” asks this poem’s speaker “can you describe this?” as they wait in line outside a prison in this poem’s first section, “Instead of a Preface.” This poem’s penultimate section, “Crucifixion,” alludes to the arrest of the author’s son Lev by the NKVD. For 10 points, name this long elegiac poem with a musical title by Anna Akhmatova ■END■
| Great Lakes | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 50% | 0% | 17% | 101.00 |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | Y | 1 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 72.00 |
| Midwest | 2025-02-01 | Y | 1 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 79.00 |
| Northeast | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 67% | 0% | 0% | 94.00 |
| Overflow | 2025-02-01 | Y | 4 | 75% | 0% | 25% | 90.33 |
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| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bryan Ugaz | ASU | TAMU | 42 | 10 |
| Noah Chin | Virginia Tech A | Virginia A | 72 | 10 |
| Kevin Zheng | Michigan B | Case Western B | 79 | 10 |
| Braden Booth | Missouri | Chicago B | 79 | 10 |
| Andrew Zeng | Stanford B | Iowa | 80 | 10 |
| Sharath Narayan | Northwestern A | Purdue | 83 | 10 |
| Yrwin Batan | MIT A | Brandeis B | 84 | 10 |
| Rachel Ezrielev | Georgetown A | Notre Dame A | 85 | -5 |
| Russell Nip | UBC | Alberta | 86 | 10 |
| Omer Keskin | Oxford A | Cambridge A | 87 | 10 |
| Elie Aoun | Case Western A | Michigan State | 104 | 10 |
| Michael Kearney | Harvard A | Brown A | 104 | 10 |
| Jisoo Yoo | Texas A | Texas B | 106 | 10 |
| Jacob Finley | Notre Dame A | Georgetown A | 108 | 10 |
| Rachel Fanous | Michigan A | Kenyon | 120 | 10 |
| Simon Zimmerman | Ohio State A | Michigan D | 120 | -5 |
| Truman Fillbrandt | UW A | UW B | 121 | -5 |
| Dennis Yang | Michigan C | Carnegie Mellon A | 137 | 0 |
| Ryan Judge | Carnegie Mellon A | Michigan C | 137 | 0 |
| Jayden Ku | Carnegie Mellon B | Ohio State B | 137 | 0 |
| Rohan Navaneetha Raj | Ohio State B | Carnegie Mellon B | 137 | 0 |
| Christopher Dech | Brandeis A | Tufts A | 137 | 0 |
| Will Sanders | Notre Dame C | Georgetown B | 137 | 0 |
| Meggy Mani | Georgetown B | Notre Dame C | 137 | 0 |