The life of a fictional person from this location is described in a preface by Pierre Louÿs (“loo-EESE”) that discusses how crime was inspired by its tyrant Pittacus enacting an anti-flute law. Two monodic poets from this location who are part of the nine Melic poets each lend their name to a four-line stanza form. Both Alcaeus and a contemporary who described feeling “greener than grass” in a poem opening “He seems to me equal to the gods” hailed from the city of Mytilene on this island. A poetess from this island pleads with a “deathless” “child of Zeus” to “be my ally” in a translation of her “Hymn to Aphrodite” collected in Anne Carson’s If Not, Winter. For 10 points, Sappho is from what island, whose name is the origin of the term for female same-sex love? ■END■
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| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mattias Ehatamm | Maryland A | Johns Hopkins A | 32 | 10 |
| Ben LaFond | Cambridge A | Edinburgh B | 32 | 10 |
| Wyatt Roder | Georgetown A | Penn B | 36 | 10 |
| James McCurley | Harvard | Brown A | 43 | 10 |
| Albert Nyang | LSE A | Edinburgh A | 44 | 10 |
| Jack Lewis | Bruin A | Auburn A | 48 | 10 |
| Paige Crawley | Oxford A | Manchester A | 53 | 10 |
| Abdelrahman Elsisi | Sheffield A | Warwick A | 53 | 10 |
| Darren Kellis | Vanderbilt B | Georgia Tech B | 57 | 10 |
| Christopher Dech | Brandeis Wilson | Brandeis Orlando | 59 | 10 |
| Michael Wu | Southampton A | Sheffield C | 59 | -5 |
| Matteo Fronduti | Durham A | Oxford B | 64 | 10 |
| Yihong Chen | Toronto C | McMaster A | 67 | 10 |
| Zachary Foster | City St George's A | Sheffield B | 67 | 10 |
| Arjun Kala | Illinois A | Louisville B | 70 | 10 |
| Camden Walker | WashU B | Truman State | 72 | 10 |
| Braden Booth | Missouri A | SIUE | 72 | 10 |
| Raymond Chen | Toronto B | Toronto A | 73 | 10 |
| Yrwin Batan | MIT A | Amherst A | 73 | 10 |
| William Orr | Yale A | Williams | 73 | 10 |
| Asha Basu | McGill A | Guelph A | 76 | 10 |
| Gavin Markoff | Vanderbilt A | Georgia Tech D | 77 | 10 |
| Bryan Ugaz | Arizona State A | Texas A | 79 | 10 |
| Gus Vanskike | Maryland B | Georgetown B | 80 | 10 |
| Amir Dolansky | Toronto H | Carleton | 81 | 10 |
| Misbah Meghani | UAB A | Mississippi State A | 81 | 10 |
| Odysseas Gabrielatos | Warwick B | Bristol A | 82 | 10 |
| Sophie Lyman | WashU D | William Woods | 85 | -5 |
| Justin Drees | Notre Dame D | Chicago A | 85 | 10 |
| Beckett Gilmore | Louisville A | Illinois C | 85 | 10 |
| Olivia Kiser | Kentucky | Michigan D | 85 | 10 |
| Nermeen Rahman | Indiana B | Michigan B | 85 | 10 |
| Kevin Zheng | Michigan A | Purdue B | 85 | 10 |
| Blake Johnson | BC A | Yale B | 85 | 10 |
| Tianyu Xu | Georgia Tech A | Georgia Tech C | 85 | 10 |
| Dennis Reppen | Imperial A | Birmingham A | 85 | 10 |
| Joel Crossley | Manchester B | LSE B | 85 | -5 |
| Sam Eddon | Cambridge D | Southampton B | 85 | 10 |
| Jeremy Katen | George Mason A | Penn A | 90 | 10 |
| Sam McNamee | Notre Dame A | Chicago D | 90 | 10 |
| Dylan Tanouye | Tufts B | Tufts A | 90 | 10 |
| Jisoo Yoo | Texas B | McGill D | 90 | 10 |
| Ved Muthusamy | Northwestern A | Alberta B | 90 | -5 |
| Jake Wingfield | Bristol B | Imperial B | 90 | 10 |
| Margaret Withers | George Mason B | VCU A | 91 | 10 |
| Collin Leck | UCO | Northwestern B | 93 | 10 |
| Sayan Chandaroy | UMBC A | Johns Hopkins C | 99 | 10 |
| Charlie Ruff | McGill C | Toronto I | 101 | -5 |
| Sean Gao | Toronto K | McGill B | 101 | 10 |
| Eric Zhu | Cornell-UG | Dartmouth | 101 | 10 |
| Young Fenimore Lee | Ohio | Arizona State B | 101 | 10 |
| Waverly O'Malley | Iowa | UTD A | 101 | 10 |
| Taaj Rai | George Washington A | Catholic University | 104 | -5 |
| Elizabeth Megson | Tulsa | UTD B | 106 | 10 |
| Britton Webster | Alabama A | Alabama B | 107 | 10 |
| Jesse Chusing | Ottawa | Toronto D | 109 | 10 |
| Platon Gorokhov | Toronto F | Toronto G | 109 | 10 |
| Marianthe Dresios | Johns Hopkins B | Maryland D | 109 | 10 |
| Hari Veginati | UIC | Indiana A | 109 | 10 |
| Samarth Ram | Chicago B | Michigan C | 109 | 10 |
| Andrew Pham | MIT B | BU | 109 | -5 |
| Sam Kemeny | Brandeis Clemenceau | Brown C | 109 | 10 |
| Eames Weeks | Brown B | Brandeis Lloyd George | 109 | 10 |
| Coy Mier | Auburn B | Huntsville A | 109 | 10 |
| Eoin Neale | Lancaster A | Cambridge C | 109 | 10 |
| Cate Brunt | Queen's B | McMaster B | 110 | 10 |
| Henry Bauer | NYU B | Notre Dame E | 110 | 10 |
| Hanson Huynh | BU | MIT B | 110 | 10 |
| Gannon Smith | Maryland C | George Washington B | 111 | 10 |
| Riley Roessler | Bowdoin B | BC B | 113 | 10 |
| Eugene Kim | Purdue C | Notre Dame B | 120 | 10 |
| Ishan Joshi | Toronto Metropolitan | Toronto J | 121 | 10 |
| Brendan Bridle | Queen's A | McMaster C | 123 | 10 |
| Shaynee Ruffle | Toronto I | McGill C | 123 | 10 |
| Stephen Pace | Guelph B | Waterloo | 123 | 10 |
| Charlie Castleton | Sheffield C | Southampton A | 123 | 10 |
| Phillip Jordan | Imperial C | Durham B | 123 | 10 |
| Ellen Ge | Toronto E | Western Ontario | 124 | 10 |
| Cassidy McIntyre | Rose State | Northwestern C | 124 | 10 |
| Ethan Burks | Huntsville B | Sewanee A | 124 | 10 |
| Alex Dzurick | William Woods | WashU D | 129 | 10 |
| Andrew Massaro | Catholic University | George Washington A | 135 | 10 |
| Ryan Graham | Alberta B | Northwestern A | 135 | 10 |