Question
This man and Marianne Moore “collaborated” on a poem, for which Moore provided the title and this man wrote rhymes like “Terrell was big and ugly and tall / But when he fights me he is sure to fall.” For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this man. Toni Morrison edited this boxer’s autobiography, The Greatest: My Own Story, a few months after Norman Mailer published The Fight about this man’s victory in the “Rumble in the Jungle.”
ANSWER: Muhammad Ali [prompt on Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr.]
[10m] Mailer appeared in a documentary crediting Ali for writing the poem with the greatest amount of this quality in the world. A sad story about unworn baby shoes for sale notably has this quality.
ANSWER: brevity [or shortness or synonyms; accept being only six words] (That “world’s shortest poem” by Ali reads, “Me? Whee!!”)
[10h] This poet of a 2016 tribute to Ali refereed a 2017 boxing match between Evander Holyfield and now-President of Nigeria Bola Tinubu. In a poem by this author, a landlady asks in all caps, “ARE YOU LIGHT OR VERY DARK?”
ANSWER: Wole Soyinka [or Akinwande Oluwole Babatunde Soyinka] (The poem is “Telephone Conversation.”)
<AS, American Literature>
Summary
| 2023 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley | Premiere | Y | 2 | 25.00 | 100% | 100% | 50% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Carleton University | Premiere | Y | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Claremont Colleges | Premiere | Y | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Indiana | Premiere | Y | 5 | 20.00 | 80% | 100% | 20% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at RIT | Premiere | Y | 2 | 20.00 | 50% | 100% | 50% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at WUSTL | Premiere | Y | 3 | 23.33 | 100% | 100% | 33% |
Data
| Auxiliary Lofthouse Cookie University | I will play anything with a buzzer in front of me | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |