A poem by this author describes a woman who is “sick to her marrow bone” and “utterly alone.” A poem by this author concludes, “For one moment of peace / I would give the peace of the tomb.” The narrator says that “Mary Magdalene beat her breasts and sobbed” in a poem by this author that opens, “No foreign sky protected me.” This author, who was called “half nun, half whore,” wrote a poem in which a woman with “lips blue” asks the narrator, “can you describe this?” At the beginning of one of her poems, this author wrote, “I have lit my treasured candles, / one by one.” The sections “Crucifixion” and “Instead of a Preface” appear in a poem by this author of “Poem Without a Hero” about a woman who waits seventeen months outside of a prison in Leningrad. For 10 points, name this Soviet author of “Requiem.” ■END■
| 2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley | 04/19/2025 | Y | 4 | 50% | 0% | 0% | 146.00 |
| 2025 ACF Nationals | 2025-08-09 | Y | 12 | 92% | 0% | 8% | 105.55 |
| Florida | Main | Y | 12 | 75% | 0% | 0% | 92.44 |
| Great Lakes | Main | Y | 5 | 40% | 0% | 0% | 105.00 |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | Main | Y | 7 | 57% | 0% | 43% | 99.25 |
| Midwest | Main | Y | 5 | 80% | 0% | 40% | 93.50 |
| North | Main | Y | 9 | 78% | 0% | 0% | 98.29 |
| Northeast | Main | Y | 4 | 50% | 0% | 25% | 149.00 |
| California | Main | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 87.60 |
| South Central | Main | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 133.75 |
| Southeast | Main | Y | 12 | 58% | 0% | 25% | 114.14 |
| UK | Main | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 84.50 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | Main | Y | 7 | 43% | 0% | 71% | 120.67 |
| Upstate NY | Main | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 116.75 |
| Overflow | Main | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 101.75 |
| Canada | Main | Y | 1 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 75.00 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Henry Bylinowski | Auburn A | Alabama B | 36 | 10 |
| Tiffany Zhou | OSU C | CWRU C | 42 | 10 |
| Albert Nyang | LSE A | Birmingham A | 43 | 10 |
| Raymond Chen | Toronto B | McMaster A | 46 | 10 |
| Nick Smemoe | North Carolina B | Virginia B | 46 | 10 |
| Russell Nip | British Columbia D | Washington B | 46 | 10 |
| Andrew Harms | MSU A | Pitt C | 51 | -5 |
| Vayun Krishna | Georgetown A | Johns Hopkins A | 54 | 10 |
| Travis Johnson | Pitt A | MSU B | 61 | -5 |
| Kevin Ye | Simon Fraser | Washington A | 61 | 10 |
| Bryan Ugaz | Arizona State A | Tulsa | 63 | -5 |
| Rohan Ganeshan | Harvard | Amherst A | 70 | -5 |
| Ryan Graham | Alberta B | Northwestern C | 73 | -5 |
| Charlie Lowman | Imperial A | Sheffield A | 73 | -5 |
| Vivian Fan | Claremont Scripps | UCSD Vices and Virtues | 75 | 10 |
| Yrwin Batan | MIT A | Brown A | 80 | 10 |
| Tai Belke | British Columbia A | Alberta | 80 | 10 |
| Gavin Markoff | Vanderbilt A | Georgia Tech B | 80 | 10 |
| Benjamin Chapman | Toronto A | Waterloo | 81 | 10 |
| Eshan Pant | NYU A | Maryland A | 81 | 10 |
| Antoni Kluzowski | Warwick A | Manchester A | 81 | 10 |
| Tanay Bodducherla | Berkeley E | Berkeley A | 83 | 10 |
| Denis Liu | Stanford C | Berkeley C | 83 | 10 |
| Dylan Steptoe | Guelph A | Toronto F | 83 | 10 |
| Henry Siegler | Toronto D | Toronto G | 83 | 10 |
| Henry Bauer | NYU B | Catholic University | 83 | 10 |
| Braden Booth | Missouri A | WashU D | 83 | 10 |
| Logan Mathis | WashU A | Truman State | 83 | 10 |
| Sam Kemeny | Brandeis Clemenceau | Cornell-UG | 83 | 10 |
| Sharath Narayan | Northwestern A | Rose State | 83 | 10 |
| Bryce Cruise | Texas A | UTD B | 83 | -5 |
| Jack Lewis | Bruin A | Georgia Tech D | 83 | 10 |
| Michael Wu | Southampton A | Edinburgh A | 83 | 10 |
| Antara Bhattacharya | Cambridge B | Warwick B | 83 | 10 |
| William Orr | Yale A | BU | 84 | 10 |
| Michał Gerasimiuk | Stanford A | UCSC | 87 | 10 |
| Ryan Sun | Berkeley D | Berkeley F | 87 | 10 |
| Jesse Chusing | Ottawa | Guelph B | 87 | 10 |
| Amir Dolansky | Toronto H | Toronto E | 87 | 10 |
| Cole Hennessy | UCF B | FIU | 87 | 10 |
| Jim Fan | North Carolina A | Clemson B | 87 | 10 |
| Sayan Chandaroy | UMBC A | Georgetown B | 87 | 10 |
| Patrick Rivas-Giorgi | Columbia B | Vassar A | 87 | -5 |
| Joshua Iyo " | North Carolina C | Liberty A | 90 | 10 |
| Kevin Liu | Maryland B | George Mason C | 90 | 10 |
| Camden Walker | WashU B | Missouri B | 90 | 10 |
| Kevin Le | Carleton | Toronto Metropolitan | 91 | 10 |
| Arthur Bellamy | Oxford B | Edinburgh B | 95 | 10 |
| Collin Leck | UCO | McGill D | 96 | -5 |
| Nathaniel Hull | Berkeley B | Stanford B | 98 | 10 |
| Eveline Ong | Oxford A | Cambridge C | 99 | 10 |
| Parker McCoig | Tennessee A | Tusculum | 100 | -5 |
| Graham Lucas | Bowdoin B | BC A | 101 | -5 |
| Dylan Tanouye | Tufts B | BC B | 102 | 10 |
| Roxanne Tang | OSU A | Kenyon A | 108 | -5 |
| Joseph Chambers | Virginia A | South Carolina B | 108 | -5 |
| Grace Ma | Brown C | Dartmouth | 108 | -5 |
| Jisoo Yoo | Texas B | UTD A | 108 | -5 |
| Rohan Navaneetha | OSU B | OSU D | 111 | 10 |
| Sai Subramanian | CWRU B | Kenyon B | 116 | 10 |
| Jacob Price | Cambridge A | Bristol A | 116 | 10 |
| CT Tang | Sheffield B | Durham A | 119 | 10 |
| Zoe Wang | Carleton | Minnesota B | 120 | 10 |
| Shiva Tegulla | UCF A | UF E | 123 | 10 |
| Andrew Amygdalos | CWRU A | Pitt B | 128 | 10 |
| Young Fenimore Lee | Ohio | Northwestern B | 128 | 10 |
| Dylan Lewis | Nebraska | Macalester A | 130 | 10 |
| Pranav Jothi | Georgia Tech A | Huntsville B | 131 | 10 |
| Asha Basu | McGill A | Toronto J | 132 | 10 |
| Foster Hughes | Minnesota A | Iowa State | 141 | 10 |
| Artem Borisov | Bristol B | Cambridge D | 141 | 10 |
| Cade Reinberger | RIT B | RIT A | 141 | 10 |
| Sean Gao | Toronto K | Queen's A | 142 | 10 |
| Gannon Smith | Maryland C | George Mason B | 144 | 10 |
| Milo Scanlon | Macalester B | Minnesota C | 144 | 10 |
| Ben Hellman | Swarthmore A | Princeton A | 148 | 10 |
| Michael Ai | Williams | MIT B | 148 | 10 |
| Fern Fang | VCU A | Penn A | 149 | 10 |
| Jason Lee | Rutgers B | Lehigh B | 150 | 10 |
| Abdelrahman Elsisi | Sheffield A | Imperial A | 150 | 10 |
| Loukas Juritsch | Toronto I | McMaster B | 151 | 0 |
| Luke Sloan | McGill C | McMaster C | 151 | 0 |
| Nabhaan Farooqi | McGill B | Queen's B | 151 | 0 |
| Carter Yott | McMaster C | McGill C | 151 | 0 |
| Adithya Parat | McMaster B | Toronto I | 151 | 0 |
| Christina Popov | Queen's B | McGill B | 151 | 0 |
| Addison Wiggins | USF | FSU | 151 | 0 |
| Alex Olson | UF D | ERAU A | 151 | 0 |
| Aidan Bernardo | Melbourne B | Melbourne A | 151 | 0 |
| Gavin Littrell | ERAU A | UF D | 151 | 0 |
| Juan Landaeta | FSU | USF | 151 | 0 |
| Dominic Heffron | Melbourne A | Melbourne B | 151 | 0 |
| Ethan White | Kenyon A | OSU A | 151 | 0 |
| John McQueen | South Carolina B | Virginia A | 151 | 10 |
| Taaj Rai | George Washington A | George Mason A | 151 | 0 |
| Jarman Taylor | Johns Hopkins C | Johns Hopkins B | 151 | 0 |
| Omer Korkmaz | Johns Hopkins B | Johns Hopkins C | 151 | 0 |
| Jeremy Katen | George Mason A | George Washington A | 151 | 0 |
| Chase Barrick | Lehigh A | Rutgers C | 151 | 0 |
| Conner Yamnitz | WashU C | William Woods | 151 | 10 |
| Anthony Xu | Amherst A | Harvard | 151 | 10 |
| Elliott Gomes | Dartmouth | Brown C | 151 | 0 |
| Kayla Drajpuch | Brandeis Wilson | Bowdoin A | 151 | 10 |
| Shining Sun | BC A | Bowdoin B | 151 | 0 |
| Aaron Velez | Yale B | Brandeis Lloyd George | 151 | 0 |
| Jack Meyers | Brown B | Tufts A | 151 | 0 |
| Lance Hulme | Bowdoin A | Brandeis Wilson | 151 | 0 |
| John Cha | Tufts A | Brown B | 151 | 0 |
| Luc Vulliez | Amherst B | Brandeis Orlando | 151 | 0 |
| Alan Zhang | British Columbia B | British Columbia C | 151 | 10 |
| Mason Evans | Tulsa | Arizona State A | 151 | 0 |
| James Ferrabee | McGill D | UCO | 151 | 10 |
| Nihal Anand | UTD A | Texas B | 151 | 0 |
| Matthew Vidal | Northwestern C | Alberta B | 151 | 0 |
| Britton Webster | Alabama A | Auburn B | 151 | 10 |
| Kaushul Manikandan | Huntsville A | Mississippi State A | 151 | 10 |
| Alex Thomas | Georgia Tech C | Sewanee A | 151 | 10 |
| Darren Kellis | Vanderbilt B | UAB A | 151 | 10 |
| Zachary Foster | City St George's A | Imperial C | 151 | 10 |
| Rufus Gladwell | Durham B | LSE B | 151 | 0 |
| Anirudh Terdal | LSE B | Durham B | 151 | 0 |
| Pranaav Senthilkumar | Cornell-DII | Binghamton A | 151 | 10 |
| Elijah O'Sick Johnson | Binghamton B | ESF | 151 | 0 |
| Madison Glaser | ESF | Binghamton B | 151 | 0 |
| Robert Chen | Rochester | Syracuse | 151 | 0 |