A speaker in one of these title places notes that “The others have gone; they were tired… But I would rather be standing here” in a poem that declares “There is something terrible about a child.” Charlotte Mew wrote a poem set at one of these places “In Nunhead.” A “school” of poetry named for these places included Thomas Parnell and Robert Blair. In a poem set in one of these places, the speaker imagines “a heart once pregnant with celestial fire” and “hands” that “wak’d to ecstasy the living lyre.” The speaker of a poem reflects that “the paths of glory led but to” one of these places in a poem that includes an epitaph to “A youth to Fortune and to Fame unknown” and begins “The curfew tolls the knell of parting day.” For 10 points, an elegy by Thomas Gray is set in a “Country” type of what location? ■END■
| 2025 ACF Nationals | 2025-08-09 | Y | 3 | 67% | 0% | 67% | 100.00 |
| Florida | Main | Y | 13 | 92% | 0% | 0% | 125.50 |
| Midwest | Main | Y | 8 | 75% | 0% | 13% | 108.67 |
| Northeast | Main | Y | 5 | 60% | 0% | 20% | 86.67 |
| Canada | Main | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 104.33 |
| South Central | Main | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 136.20 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | Main | Y | 8 | 88% | 0% | 25% | 113.57 |
| Upstate NY | Main | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 25% | 118.63 |
| Pacific Northwest | Main | Y | 10 | 100% | 0% | 20% | 118.80 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Antoni Kluzowski | Warwick A | Durham A | 46 | -5 |
| Benjamin Chapman | Toronto A | Guelph A | 52 | 10 |
| Arthur Bellamy | Oxford B | Cambridge D | 53 | -5 |
| Collin Leck | UCO | Arizona State A | 54 | 10 |
| Isobel Dobbie | Sheffield A | Southampton B | 56 | 10 |
| Arjun Kala | Illinois A | Michigan B | 57 | -5 |
| Jason Lee | Rutgers B | Princeton A | 58 | 10 |
| Karthik Jayaram | UCLA A | Claremont Pitzer | 62 | 10 |
| Krishay Garg | UCLA D | UCSD What Hath God Wrought | 62 | 10 |
| Jim Fan | North Carolina A | NC State | 62 | 10 |
| Abigail Lee | Virginia Tech A | North Carolina C | 62 | 10 |
| Malachi Ledford | Tusculum | Virginia Tech B | 62 | -5 |
| Anna Bocook | Louisville B | Chicago C | 62 | -5 |
| Jacob Finley | Notre Dame A | Louisville A | 63 | 10 |
| Jack Lewis | Bruin A | Georgia Tech C | 65 | 10 |
| Gavin Markoff | Vanderbilt A | Vanderbilt B | 65 | 10 |
| Anne Fjeld | Alberta B | Texas A | 71 | -5 |
| Devito Stevanus | McGill D | Northwestern B | 74 | 10 |
| Kevin Yang | Illinois C | Chicago D | 77 | 10 |
| Stuart Chandler-Baas | Carleton | McGill B | 81 | 10 |
| Will Hollister | Lehigh A | Columbia B | 81 | 10 |
| Henry Bylinowski | Auburn A | Georgia Tech A | 94 | 10 |
| Nick Smemoe | North Carolina B | Liberty A | 95 | 10 |
| Amir Dolansky | Toronto H | Toronto K | 105 | 10 |
| Kaiwen Xiao | UCLA B | Claremont Scripps | 108 | 10 |
| Olivia Kiser | Kentucky | Chicago A | 108 | 10 |
| Sarah Dong | Michigan C | Purdue C | 108 | 10 |
| Mats Miller | Chicago B | Notre Dame B | 108 | 10 |
| Sharath Narayan | Northwestern A | Texas B | 108 | 10 |
| Young Fenimore Lee | Ohio | Iowa | 111 | -5 |
| Nolan Dannels | UCSD Vices and Virtues | UCSD Two Running Violet V Forms | 113 | 10 |
| Charlie Ruff | McGill C | Queen's A | 118 | 10 |
| Mason Evans | Tulsa | Arizona State B | 120 | 10 |
| Omkar Marathe | Columbia A | Rowan A | 121 | 10 |
| Connor King | St. Thomas | Minnesota B | 124 | 10 |
| Raymond Chen | Toronto B | McGill A | 129 | 10 |
| Milo Scanlon | Macalester B | Minnesota A | 131 | 10 |
| Zoe Wang | Carleton | Nebraska | 133 | 10 |
| Carter Yott | McMaster C | Toronto I | 134 | 10 |
| Ben Herbst | Notre Dame C | Indiana B | 134 | 10 |
| Britton Webster | Alabama A | Huntsville A | 134 | 10 |
| Matthew Vidal | Northwestern C | UTD B | 135 | 10 |
| Rahul Jogadhenu | UCLA C | UCI | 137 | 10 |
| Emily Snider | Liberty B | South Carolina A | 137 | 10 |
| Samir Sarma | Georgia Tech D | Georgia Tech B | 139 | -5 |
| Deepanshi Matai | Toronto C | Ottawa | 142 | 10 |
| Jack Casey | Illinois B | Michigan D | 142 | 10 |
| Coy Mier | Auburn B | Alabama B | 142 | 10 |
| Isaac Millians | USC | UCSB | 144 | 10 |
| Christian Humeniuk | McMaster A | Toronto D | 144 | 10 |
| Gabriel Dodds—Captain | Liberty C | Clemson A | 144 | 10 |
| Nolan Jones | Purdue A | Notre Dame D | 144 | 10 |
| Matteo Fronduti | Durham A | Warwick A | 144 | 10 |
| Ishan Joshi | Toronto Metropolitan | Toronto G | 145 | 10 |
| Kapil Nathan | UAB A | Sewanee A | 145 | 10 |
| Ian Saylor | Wisconsin | Minnesota C | 146 | 10 |
| Ethan Burks | Huntsville B | Mississippi State A | 146 | -5 |
| Sophia Peng | Rutgers C | Lehigh B | 147 | -5 |
| Drew Wetterlind | Iowa State | Macalester A | 147 | 10 |
| Zaire Gibbons | Toronto J | Toronto F | 152 | 10 |
| Stephen Pace | Guelph B | McMaster B | 152 | 10 |
| Gavin Ge | Waterloo | Toronto E | 152 | 0 |
| Kevin He | Toronto E | Waterloo | 152 | 0 |
| Sarah Khan | Queen's B | Western Ontario | 152 | 10 |
| Erin Williams | James Madison | Virginia B | 152 | 0 |
| John McQueen | South Carolina B | Clemson B | 152 | 10 |
| Ilyas Choukri | Virginia Tech B | Tusculum | 152 | 0 |
| Jonathan Sung | Virginia B | James Madison | 152 | 0 |
| Ezra Siegartel | Vassar A | Columbia C | 152 | 0 |
| Jack Stuhlman | Lehigh B | Rutgers C | 152 | 0 |
| Andrew Wu | Columbia C | Vassar A | 152 | 0 |
| Jacob Graham | Chicago C | Louisville B | 152 | 10 |
| Carter Pisocky | Michigan B | Illinois A | 152 | 10 |
| Waverly O'Malley | Iowa | Ohio | 152 | 10 |
| Nihal Anand | UTD A | Rose State | 152 | 0 |
| Bryce Cruise | Texas A | Alberta B | 152 | 10 |
| S. A. Shenoy | Georgia Tech B | Georgia Tech D | 152 | 10 |
| Sawyer Smith | Mississippi State A | Huntsville B | 152 | 10 |