A character in this book opens a box to find coals instead of a feather dropped by Gabriel during the Annunciation. In this book, a character marries Neerbal after being taught how to “put the devil back in Hell” by the monk Rustico. A poem by John Keats adapts a story in this book in which a woman cries every day over a pot of basil containing her lover’s severed head. In a different story in this collection, a man wins a woman’s affections after cooking his pet falcon for her as a meal. A nobleman pretends to murder his children to test the loyalties of his wife Griselda in this collection’s final story, one of several told by Dioneo over 10 days. For 10 points, Florentines fleeing the Black Death tell stories to each other in what collection by Giovanni Boccaccio? ■END■
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| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Akshansh Chauhan | UTD A | Rose State | 38 | -5 |
| Kaiwen Xiao | UCLA B | Claremont Scripps | 41 | 10 |
| Zoë McGuire | Oxford B | Cambridge D | 41 | 10 |
| Ezra Schulman | Macalester A | Iowa State | 42 | 10 |
| Aryan Desarapu | Michigan B | Illinois A | 44 | 10 |
| Sam McNamee | Notre Dame A | Louisville A | 57 | 10 |
| Amir Dolansky | Toronto H | Toronto K | 62 | -5 |
| Anne Fjeld | Alberta B | Texas A | 66 | 10 |
| Tony Chen | Toronto A | Guelph A | 67 | 10 |
| Nolan Dannels | UCSD Vices and Virtues | UCSD Two Running Violet V Forms | 68 | 10 |
| Emily Kadolph | Virginia Tech A | North Carolina C | 68 | 10 |
| Kevin Yang | Illinois C | Chicago D | 68 | 10 |
| Jack Lewis | Bruin A | Georgia Tech C | 68 | 10 |
| Matteo Fronduti | Durham A | Warwick A | 68 | 10 |
| Isobel Dobbie | Sheffield A | Southampton B | 68 | 10 |
| Isaac Studley | Carleton | Nebraska | 69 | 10 |
| Bryan Ugaz | Arizona State A | UCO | 69 | 10 |
| Josh Schmidt | Liberty A | North Carolina B | 70 | 10 |
| Malachi Ledford | Tusculum | Virginia Tech B | 70 | 10 |
| Olivia Kiser | Kentucky | Chicago A | 70 | 10 |
| Eric Yang | Purdue A | Notre Dame D | 70 | -5 |
| Milo Scanlon | Macalester B | Minnesota A | 70 | 10 |
| Jisoo Yoo | Texas B | Northwestern A | 70 | 10 |
| Davin Sivertson | Alabama B | Auburn B | 70 | 10 |
| Tianyu Xu | Georgia Tech A | Auburn A | 72 | 10 |
| Ellen Ge | Toronto E | Waterloo | 74 | -5 |
| Kevin Le | Carleton | McGill B | 77 | 10 |
| Omkar Marathe | Columbia A | Rowan A | 77 | 10 |
| Ben Wismath | Toronto B | McGill A | 82 | 10 |
| Emily Hackwelder | Notre Dame D | Purdue A | 82 | 10 |
| Ishan Joshi | Toronto Metropolitan | Toronto G | 85 | 10 |
| Anuk Dias | Minnesota B | St. Thomas | 87 | 10 |
| William Groger | Princeton A | Rutgers B | 90 | 10 |
| Ben Herbst | Notre Dame C | Indiana B | 90 | 10 |
| Katherine Mack | UCI | UCLA C | 93 | 10 |
| Krishay Garg | UCLA D | UCSD What Hath God Wrought | 93 | 10 |
| Trey Lewis | South Carolina A | Liberty B | 93 | 10 |
| Young Fenimore Lee | Ohio | Iowa | 93 | 10 |
| John McQueen | South Carolina B | Clemson B | 95 | 10 |
| Wesley Stine | Clemson A | Liberty C | 95 | 10 |
| Samir Sarma | Georgia Tech D | Georgia Tech B | 99 | 10 |
| Jesse Chusing | Ottawa | Toronto C | 108 | 10 |
| Britton Webster | Alabama A | Huntsville A | 108 | 10 |
| Karthik Jayaram | UCLA A | Claremont Pitzer | 110 | 10 |
| Darren Kellis | Vanderbilt B | Vanderbilt A | 110 | 10 |
| Henry Siegler | Toronto D | McMaster A | 111 | 10 |
| Carter Yott | McMaster C | Toronto I | 111 | 10 |
| Adrian Dooley | Notre Dame B | Chicago B | 111 | -5 |
| Aarav Vasanthan | Rutgers C | Lehigh B | 113 | 10 |
| Devito Stevanus | McGill D | Northwestern B | 113 | 10 |
| Jim Fan | North Carolina A | NC State | 116 | 10 |
| Sarah Khan | Queen's B | Western Ontario | 119 | 10 |
| Isaac Millians | USC | UCSB | 122 | 10 |
| Ian Theysmeyer | Queen's A | McGill C | 122 | 10 |
| Jacob Graham | Chicago C | Louisville B | 122 | 10 |
| Jack Casey | Illinois B | Michigan D | 122 | 10 |
| Ian Saylor | Wisconsin | Minnesota C | 122 | 10 |
| Kapil Nathan | UAB A | Sewanee A | 122 | 10 |
| Mason Evans | Tulsa | Arizona State B | 123 | 10 |
| Patrick Rivas-Giorgi | Columbia B | Lehigh A | 124 | 10 |
| Sawyer Smith | Mississippi State A | Huntsville B | 125 | 10 |
| Jonathan Sung | Virginia B | James Madison | 126 | 10 |
| Platon Gorokhov | Toronto F | Toronto J | 137 | 10 |
| Jensen Tebbe | Columbia C | Vassar A | 140 | 10 |
| Carter Herron | Chicago B | Notre Dame B | 141 | 10 |
| Noah Jaye | McMaster B | Guelph B | 142 | 0 |
| Sean Gao | Toronto K | Toronto H | 142 | 10 |
| Raisa Tabassum | Guelph B | McMaster B | 142 | 0 |
| Sarah Dong | Michigan C | Purdue C | 142 | 10 |
| Cassidy McIntyre | Rose State | UTD A | 142 | 10 |
| Jeremy Mau | Northwestern C | UTD B | 142 | 10 |