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Question

Debi Roy, who pioneered “image jumping” and “logical breaks,” was a member of the Hungryalist Quartet of poets who wrote in this language. For 10 points each:

[10e] Name this language used by Rabindranath Tagore to write two national anthems, including India’s “Jana Gana Mana.”

ANSWER: Bengali [or Bangla]

[10m] Falguni Ray’s poem “Coming Back to Verbs” describes singing for the death of Tagore and looting rice from one of these objects. The speaker of a Tagore poem titled for a golden one of these objects asks it to “take away [his] golden paddy” and describes trees on a riverbank “smearing shadows like ink.”

ANSWER: boats [or tori; accept “The Golden Boat” or “Sonar Tori”]

[10h] In a poem to this man, Tagore wrote of “cunning craftsman” and people “shouting to the soldiers, ‘Strike!’” The speaker addresses Shubha (“SHOO-bah”) in a Malay Roychoudhury (“roy-CHOW-doo-ree”) poem that begins “Oh I’ll die I’ll die I’ll die” titled “Stark Electric [this man].”

ANSWER: Jesus Christ [or Jesus Christ; accept “Stark Electric Jesus”; accept Son of Man or “To Christ, the Son of Man”; prompt on “Terrific Electric Carpenter”]

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Summary


California	Main	Y	5	18.00	100%	60%	20%
Canada	Main	Y	1	30.00	100%	100%	100%
Florida	Main	Y	13	12.31	92%	15%	15%
Great Lakes	Main	Y	6	3.33	17%	17%	0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	7	14.29	57%	43%	43%
Midwest	Main	Y	10	7.00	50%	20%	0%
North	Main	Y	10	12.00	70%	40%	10%
Northeast	Main	Y	5	6.00	40%	0%	20%
Overflow	Main	Y	4	7.50	50%	25%	0%
Pacific Northwest	Main	Y	12	12.50	58%	33%	33%
South Central	Main	Y	5	14.00	80%	60%	0%
Southeast	Main	Y	12	10.83	67%	25%	17%
UK	Main	Y	4	12.50	100%	0%	25%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	8	11.25	63%	38%	13%
Upstate NY	Main	Y	8	13.75	75%	50%	13%
2025 ACF Nationals	2025-08-09	Y	14	12.14	86%	29%	7%
2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley	04/19/2025	Y	4	7.50	75%	0%	0%

Data


Stanford C	Berkeley B	10	0	0	10
Berkeley C	UCSC	10	10	0	20
Berkeley D	Stanford A	10	10	0	20
Stanford B	Berkeley E	10	0	0	10
UCLA A	UCLA D	10	10	10	30
Berkeley A	Berkeley F	10	10	10	30
Queen's B	Guelph B	10	0	0	10
McGill C	McGill B	10	0	0	10
Guelph A	McMaster A	10	0	0	10
Toronto E	McMaster B	0	0	0	0
Queen's A	Carleton	10	0	0	10
Toronto A	Toronto D	10	10	10	30
Ottawa	Toronto B	10	10	0	20
McGill A	Toronto C	10	0	10	20
Toronto F	Toronto J	10	0	0	10
Toronto K	Toronto I	10	0	0	10
Toronto G	Toronto Metropolitan	10	0	0	10
Western Ontario	Waterloo	10	0	0	10
CWRU B	CWRU D	10	0	0	10
CWRU C	Pitt C	0	0	10	10
MSU A	Kenyon A	0	0	0	0
CWRU A	OSU A	0	10	0	10
OSU B	Kenyon B	10	0	0	10
OSU C	Pitt B	10	10	10	30
Pitt A	OSU D	10	10	10	30
Melbourne B	ERAU B	0	0	0	0
UCF B	FIU	10	10	0	20
FSU	UF B	0	0	0	0
UF C	Melbourne A	0	0	0	0
UF D	UCF A	0	0	0	0
USF	ERAU A	0	0	0	0
North Carolina B	Clemson A	10	0	0	10
Clemson B	NC State	0	0	0	0
James Madison	North Carolina C	0	0	0	0
Tusculum	North Carolina A	0	0	0	0
Roanoke	Liberty C	10	0	0	10
Liberty B	South Carolina B	0	0	0	0
Tennessee A	Virginia Tech B	10	0	0	10
Virginia Tech A	Tennessee B	10	10	0	20
South Carolina A	Virginia A	10	10	0	20
Liberty A	Virginia B	0	0	0	0
George Mason A	Notre Dame E	0	0	0	0
George Mason B	Catholic University	10	10	0	20
George Mason C	George Washington B	0	0	0	0
Georgetown A	George Washington A	10	10	0	20
Johns Hopkins A	Georgetown B	10	0	0	10
Johns Hopkins B	Johns Hopkins C	0	0	0	0
Maryland C	Maryland A	10	10	0	20
UMBC A	Maryland D	10	0	0	10
NYU A	VCU A	10	10	10	30
NYU B	Penn A	10	0	0	10
Swarthmore A	Columbia A	10	0	10	20
Columbia B	Rutgers C	0	0	0	0
Columbia C	Rutgers B	0	0	0	0
Princeton A	Rowan A	10	0	0	10
Lehigh B	Vassar A	0	0	0	0
Toronto H	McMaster C	10	0	0	10
Missouri B	SIUE	10	0	0	10
WashU D	Truman State	0	0	0	0
WashU A	WashU C	10	10	0	20
William Woods	Missouri A	0	0	0	0
Chicago C	Chicago B	0	0	10	10
Illinois B	Chicago D	10	0	0	10
Illinois A	UIC	10	10	10	30
Indiana A	Michigan B	10	10	0	20
Illinois C	Kentucky	10	10	10	30
Michigan C	Indiana B	0	0	0	0
Chicago A	Notre Dame A	10	0	0	10
Notre Dame B	Notre Dame C	10	0	0	10
Notre Dame D	Louisville A	0	0	0	0
Michigan A	Purdue A	10	10	10	30
Michigan D	Purdue B	0	0	0	0
Purdue C	Louisville B	0	0	0	0
Amherst B	BC A	0	0	0	0
Amherst A	BC B	10	10	0	20
BU	MIT A	10	0	0	10
Brown C	Bowdoin A	10	10	0	20
Brandeis Clemenceau	Tufts A	10	0	0	10
Brandeis Orlando	Bowdoin B	10	0	0	10
Dartmouth	Brandeis Wilson	10	10	0	20
Yale A	Brown A	10	0	10	20
Brown B	Cornell-UG	10	0	0	10
Tufts B	Harvard	0	0	10	10
Williams	Brandeis Lloyd George	0	0	0	0
MIT B	Yale B	0	0	0	0
Carleton	Iowa State	10	10	0	20
Macalester B	Minnesota B	10	0	0	10
St. Thomas	Minnesota C	0	10	0	10
Minnesota A	Nebraska	10	10	0	20
Wisconsin	Macalester A	10	0	0	10
British Columbia C	Alberta	10	0	0	10
Simon Fraser	British Columbia D	10	0	10	20
Washington A	British Columbia A	10	0	0	10
British Columbia B	Washington B	10	0	0	10
Northwestern C	Arizona State A	0	0	0	0
Alberta B	Northwestern B	10	0	0	10
McGill D	Rose State	10	10	0	20
Texas A	Northwestern A	10	10	0	20
Texas B	Tulsa	10	10	10	30
Iowa	UCO	10	0	0	10
UTD A	Ohio	0	0	0	0
UTD B	Arizona State B	0	0	0	0
Alabama A	Huntsville B	10	0	10	20
Auburn A	Huntsville A	10	10	0	20
Georgia Tech D	Auburn B	10	0	0	10
Georgia Tech C	Georgia Tech B	0	10	0	10
Vanderbilt A	Mississippi State A	10	0	0	10
Alabama B	Sewanee A	10	10	0	20
Georgia Tech A	UAB A	10	0	0	10
Vanderbilt B	Bruin A	0	10	0	10
Warwick A	Birmingham A	10	0	0	10
Bristol A	Oxford A	10	0	0	10
City St George's A	Bristol B	10	0	0	10
Oxford B	Cambridge B	10	0	0	10
Durham B	Sheffield C	10	0	0	10
Edinburgh A	Cambridge C	10	10	0	20
Edinburgh B	Sheffield B	10	0	0	10
Imperial A	LSE A	10	10	0	20
Imperial C	Imperial B	10	0	0	10
Sheffield A	Manchester A	10	0	0	10
Cambridge D	Manchester B	0	0	0	0
Cambridge A	Southampton A	10	10	10	30
Southampton B	LSE B	0	10	0	10
Warwick B	Durham A	10	0	0	10
Binghamton B	Binghamton A	10	0	0	10
RIT B	Rochester	10	0	0	10
Cornell-DII	Syracuse	0	0	0	0
ESF	RIT A	10	0	0	10