Question
This poet wrote “I call in the boy, / Have him sit on his knees here / To seal this” to conclude a poem about the title “Exile’s Letter.” The speaker of another poem by this author describes how “Forty-eight thousand years had passed” and sighs as he looks westward. This author, who wrote “Such travelling is harder than scaling the blue sky” in a poem about the title “Hard Roads,” wrote a poem in which the speaker says “May we… meet at last on the Cloudy River of the sky.” The speaker of a poem by this author sees frost on the ground and says “Lifting my head I gaze at the bright moon / Bowing my head, thinking of home.” For 10 points, name this Táng dynasty author of “Drinking Alone by Moonlight” and “Quiet Night Thought.” ■END■
ANSWER: Lǐ Bái [or Li Po or Li Bo or Taibai]
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Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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Richard Niu | Cornell C | Penn B | 31 | 10 |
Eshan Pant | NYU A | Rowan A | 70 | -5 |
Karsten Rynearson | Yale A | Haverford | 73 | 10 |
Alex Moon | Penn A | Yale C | 83 | 10 |
Aiden Dartley | Rutgers A | Columbia C | 103 | 10 |
Jack Rado | Columbia B | NYU B | 105 | 10 |
Albert Zhang | Columbia A | Princeton B | 105 | 10 |
Sam Macchi | Vassar | Rutgers B | 105 | 10 |
Lukas Koutsoukos | Yale B | Bard A | 128 | 10 |
Ashish Kumbhardare | Rowan A | NYU A | 139 | 10 |