In a poem, these creatures are said to “all resemble one another” and have “tired mouths / And luminous illimitable souls.” William H. Gass wrote that these creatures are “what the poet would be if he could free himself from human distraction” in a book of “Reflections on the Problems of Translation.” One of these creatures is told in another poem to pluck an herb before a reference to an urn inscribed with “Subrisio Saltat.” These creatures are invoked before the line “Where are the days of Tobias.” An author wrote, “Every [one of these creatures] is terrifying” in a poem written while he was a guest of Princess Marie von Thurn und Taxis. For 10 points, Rainer Maria Rilke asks, “Who, if I cried out, would hear me among” the orders of what creatures in The Duino Elegies? ■END■
| 2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley | 04/19/2025 | Y | 4 | 75% | 0% | 25% | 129.67 |
| 2025 ACF Nationals | 2025-08-09 | Y | 14 | 93% | 0% | 0% | 108.15 |
| Florida | Main | Y | 13 | 69% | 0% | 0% | 105.78 |
| Great Lakes | Main | Y | 6 | 67% | 0% | 0% | 117.50 |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | Main | Y | 7 | 71% | 0% | 14% | 100.60 |
| Midwest | Main | Y | 9 | 89% | 0% | 11% | 115.50 |
| North | Main | Y | 9 | 100% | 0% | 22% | 106.33 |
| Northeast | Main | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 120.40 |
| California | Main | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 97.80 |
| Pacific Northwest | Main | Y | 11 | 100% | 0% | 18% | 112.36 |
| South Central | Main | Y | 5 | 80% | 0% | 20% | 121.00 |
| Southeast | Main | Y | 12 | 92% | 0% | 17% | 105.64 |
| UK | Main | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 25% | 108.00 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | Main | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 102.25 |
| Upstate NY | Main | Y | 8 | 88% | 0% | 13% | 104.00 |
| Overflow | Main | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 98.00 |
| Canada | Main | Y | 1 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 81.00 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wyatt Roder | Georgetown A | George Washington A | 23 | 10 |
| Albert Nyang | LSE A | Imperial A | 31 | 10 |
| Tommy Donelon | Missouri B | SIUE | 43 | 10 |
| Jacob Finley | Notre Dame A | Chicago A | 51 | -5 |
| Michael Wu | Southampton A | Cambridge A | 67 | 10 |
| Ariel Faeder | Pitt A | OSU D | 73 | 10 |
| Rohan Navaneetha | OSU B | Kenyon B | 74 | -5 |
| Nick Smemoe | North Carolina B | Clemson A | 74 | 10 |
| Richard Lin | Amherst A | BC B | 74 | 10 |
| Henry Bylinowski | Auburn A | Huntsville A | 74 | -5 |
| Jack Lewis | Bruin A | Vanderbilt B | 76 | 10 |
| Krishay Garg | UCLA D | UCLA A | 81 | 10 |
| Shourjo Ganguli | OSU C | Pitt B | 81 | 10 |
| Rohan Vittal | Brown A | Yale A | 81 | 10 |
| Ryan Fang | Stanford B | Berkeley E | 82 | 10 |
| Sam Kemeny | Brandeis Clemenceau | Tufts A | 82 | 10 |
| Shardul Parthasarathy | Illinois A | UIC | 83 | 10 |
| Amir Dolansky | Toronto H | McMaster C | 87 | 10 |
| Tony Chen | Toronto A | Toronto D | 87 | 10 |
| Stuart Chandler-Baas | Carleton | Queen's A | 87 | 10 |
| Omkar Marathe | Columbia A | Swarthmore A | 87 | 10 |
| Raymond Jiang | Illinois C | Kentucky | 87 | 10 |
| Dylan Tanouye | Tufts B | Harvard | 87 | -5 |
| Rohan Ganeshan | Harvard | Tufts B | 87 | 10 |
| Aaron Bates | Washington B | British Columbia B | 87 | 10 |
| Tai Belke | British Columbia A | Washington A | 87 | -5 |
| Russell Nip | British Columbia D | Simon Fraser | 87 | 10 |
| Jisoo Yoo | Texas B | Tulsa | 87 | 10 |
| Hadley Green | Northwestern B | Alberta B | 87 | 10 |
| Zach Tseng | Georgia Tech B | Georgia Tech C | 87 | 10 |
| Ryan Sun | Berkeley D | Stanford A | 90 | 10 |
| Jim Fan | North Carolina A | Tusculum | 90 | -5 |
| Noah McRedmond | Notre Dame E | George Mason A | 90 | -5 |
| Kevin Zheng | Michigan A | Purdue A | 90 | 10 |
| Gavin Markoff | Vanderbilt A | Mississippi State A | 90 | 10 |
| Anuk Dias | Minnesota B | Macalester B | 91 | -5 |
| Collin Leck | UCO | Iowa | 91 | 10 |
| Matthew He | Texas A | Northwestern A | 92 | 10 |
| Yrwin Batan | MIT A | BU | 95 | 10 |
| Pranav Jothi | Georgia Tech A | UAB A | 95 | 10 |
| Eveline Ong | Oxford A | Bristol A | 95 | 10 |
| Nathaniel Hull | Berkeley B | Stanford C | 97 | 10 |
| Vivian Malouf | Berkeley A | Berkeley F | 97 | 10 |
| Ben Wismath | Toronto B | Ottawa | 97 | 10 |
| Cole Hennessy | UCF B | FIU | 97 | 10 |
| Gannon Smith | Maryland C | Maryland A | 97 | 10 |
| Aditya Shivaswamy | Johns Hopkins A | Georgetown B | 97 | 10 |
| Eshan Pant | NYU A | VCU A | 97 | 10 |
| Tosca Zhang | NYU B | Penn A | 97 | 10 |
| Nermeen Rahman | Indiana B | Michigan C | 97 | 10 |
| Rufus Gladwell | Durham B | Sheffield C | 97 | 10 |
| Brendan Baumer | UCF A | UF D | 100 | 10 |
| Justin Hawkins | Indiana A | Michigan B | 101 | -5 |
| Michael Ai | Williams | Brandeis Lloyd George | 101 | 10 |
| Rayhana Amjad | Edinburgh A | Cambridge C | 101 | 10 |
| Christian Humeniuk | McMaster A | Guelph A | 102 | 10 |
| Andrew Harms | MSU A | Kenyon A | 102 | 10 |
| James Ferrabee | McGill D | Rose State | 102 | 10 |
| Henry Lytle | WashU C | WashU A | 103 | 10 |
| Trey Lewis | South Carolina A | Virginia A | 106 | 10 |
| Roxanne Tang | OSU A | CWRU A | 108 | 10 |
| Akshansh Chauhan | UTD A | Ohio | 108 | 10 |
| Alvin Guo | Chicago A | Notre Dame A | 111 | 10 |
| Yihong Chen | Toronto C | McGill A | 112 | 10 |
| Zoe Wang | Carleton | Iowa State | 112 | 10 |
| Bryan Ugaz | Arizona State A | Northwestern C | 113 | 10 |
| CT Tang | Sheffield B | Edinburgh B | 113 | 10 |
| Owen Arneson | Missouri A | William Woods | 118 | 10 |
| Dylan Lewis | Nebraska | Minnesota A | 118 | 10 |
| Coy Mier | Auburn B | Georgia Tech D | 118 | 10 |
| Ishan Joshi | Toronto Metropolitan | Toronto G | 119 | 10 |
| Ethan Enochian | Purdue C | Louisville B | 119 | 10 |
| Ryan Lee | Brown C | Bowdoin A | 119 | 10 |
| Alex Baker | Cambridge B | Oxford B | 119 | 10 |
| Cade Reinberger | RIT B | Rochester | 119 | 10 |
| Johanna Bryant | Liberty B | South Carolina B | 120 | 10 |
| Milo Scanlon | Macalester B | Minnesota B | 120 | 10 |
| Micah Lauzon | Dartmouth | Brandeis Wilson | 120 | -5 |
| Eric Zhu | Cornell-UG | Brown B | 120 | 10 |
| Malachi Ledford | Tusculum | North Carolina A | 121 | 10 |
| Alex Wyrick | Tennessee A | Virginia Tech B | 121 | 10 |
| Sean Gao | Toronto K | Toronto I | 122 | 10 |
| Swapnil Garg | Berkeley C | UCSC | 123 | 10 |
| Emily Kadolph | Virginia Tech A | Tennessee B | 123 | 10 |
| Alexander Wong | Rutgers B | Columbia C | 124 | 10 |
| Adrian Dooley | Notre Dame B | Notre Dame C | 124 | 10 |
| Joshua Iyo " | North Carolina C | James Madison | 125 | 10 |
| Marianthe Dresios | Johns Hopkins B | Johns Hopkins C | 125 | -5 |
| William Groger | Princeton A | Rowan A | 125 | 10 |
| Maggie Sun | MIT B | Yale B | 125 | 10 |
| William Gillard | Warwick B | Durham A | 125 | 10 |
| Teddy Fogel | Birmingham A | Warwick A | 125 | 10 |
| Gus Redding | Imperial B | Imperial C | 126 | 10 |
| Patrick Rivas-Giorgi | Columbia B | Rutgers C | 127 | 10 |
| Donal Ryan | Truman State | WashU D | 128 | 10 |
| Jacob Graham | Chicago C | Chicago B | 128 | 10 |
| Davis Johnson | Purdue B | Michigan D | 129 | 10 |
| Beckett Gilmore | Louisville A | Notre Dame D | 129 | 10 |
| Sriram Susarla | British Columbia C | Alberta | 129 | 10 |
| Beck Faletti | Washington A | British Columbia A | 129 | 10 |
| Davin Sivertson | Alabama B | Sewanee A | 129 | 10 |
| Abdelrahman Elsisi | Sheffield A | Manchester A | 129 | 10 |
| Andrew Miller | Binghamton A | Binghamton B | 129 | -5 |
| Will Hoover | RIT A | ESF | 131 | 10 |
| Sayan Chandaroy | UMBC A | Maryland D | 133 | 10 |
| Britton Webster | Alabama A | Huntsville B | 133 | 10 |
| Kyan van Beek | UF C | Melbourne A | 134 | 10 |
| Josh Schmidt | Liberty A | Virginia B | 134 | 10 |
| Ezra Schulman | Macalester A | Wisconsin | 134 | 10 |
| Dillon George | Catholic University | George Mason B | 135 | 10 |
| Rae Meyers | Arizona State B | UTD B | 138 | 10 |
| Cate Brunt | Queen's B | Guelph B | 139 | 0 |
| Nathaniel Godfrey | Toronto J | Toronto F | 139 | 0 |
| Ellen Ge | Toronto E | McMaster B | 139 | 0 |
| Stephen Pace | Guelph B | Queen's B | 139 | 0 |
| Adithya Parat | McMaster B | Toronto E | 139 | 0 |
| Uday Bhardwaj | McGill B | McGill C | 139 | 10 |
| Samuel Zheng | Toronto F | Toronto J | 139 | 0 |
| Yash Modi | Western Ontario | Waterloo | 139 | 0 |
| Gavin Ge | Waterloo | Western Ontario | 139 | 0 |
| Matthew Evans | UF B | FSU | 139 | 10 |
| Zaynab Guezzar | USF | ERAU A | 139 | 0 |
| Heidi Moyer | ERAU A | USF | 139 | 0 |
| Aidan Bernardo | Melbourne B | ERAU B | 139 | 0 |
| Kenneth Moeller | ERAU B | Melbourne B | 139 | 0 |
| Ella Mankowski | Pitt C | CWRU C | 139 | 0 |
| Sai Subramanian | CWRU B | CWRU D | 139 | 10 |
| Henry Nonnemaker | CWRU C | Pitt C | 139 | 0 |
| Conner Khan | NC State | Clemson B | 139 | 0 |
| Gannon Rice | Clemson B | NC State | 139 | 0 |
| Matthew Bucek | George Mason A | Notre Dame E | 139 | 10 |
| Jarman Taylor | Johns Hopkins C | Johns Hopkins B | 139 | 10 |
| Gavin Chen | Vassar A | Lehigh B | 139 | 10 |
| Biyang Zhang | Michigan B | Indiana A | 139 | 10 |
| Marin Burg | St. Thomas | Minnesota C | 139 | 0 |
| Cossette Anderson | Minnesota C | St. Thomas | 139 | 0 |
| David Zaslavsky | Brandeis Orlando | Bowdoin B | 139 | 0 |
| Blake Johnson | BC A | Amherst B | 139 | 10 |
| Jonathan Schnipper | Brandeis Wilson | Dartmouth | 139 | 10 |
| Riley Roessler | Bowdoin B | Brandeis Orlando | 139 | 0 |
| Kaushul Manikandan | Huntsville A | Auburn A | 139 | 0 |
| Rachel Bentham | Manchester B | Cambridge D | 139 | 10 |
| Jaz the Mononymous | Southampton B | LSE B | 139 | 0 |
| Artem Borisov | Bristol B | City St George's A | 139 | 10 |
| Shlok Dev | LSE B | Southampton B | 139 | 0 |
| Elijah O'Sick Johnson | Binghamton B | Binghamton A | 139 | 0 |
| Pranaav Senthilkumar | Cornell-DII | Syracuse | 139 | 10 |