Question

The speaker of a poem titled for this place begins, “Viciousness in the kitchen! / The potatoes hiss” and refuses to drown her kittens; that poem is by Sylvia Plath. This title place is called a “land of hot and languorous nights” in a poem that, along with “The Vampire’s Metamorphoses” and “Lethe,” was one of six to be censored from initial publication in the collection it appears in. A poet from this island feels “greener than grass” and “thin / fire racing under skin” in a poem that begins (*) “He seems to me equal to the gods.” (10[1])The lyric poet Alcaeus lived on this island, which is home to an author who pleads with a “deathless” deity “of the spangled mind” in Anne Carson’s translation (10[1])If Not, Winter. (10[1])For 10 points, name this Greek island home to Sappho, (10[1])which inspired a term for gay women. ■END■

ANSWER: Lesbos [prompt on Greece] (The second sentence refers to Charles Baudelaire’s “Lesbos.”)
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Khushi UmarwadiaSouth Carolina AJames Madison B9810
Ivan StanisavljevicDukeNorth Carolina A12610
Benjamin McAvoy-BickfordNorth Carolina BNC State12910
Shannon DinnimanJames Madison ASouth Carolina B13910

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2023 ARCADIA at DukeEmory, Duke, YaleY4100%0%0%123.00
2023 ARCADIA at EmoryEmory, Duke, YaleY4100%25%0%100.00
2023 ARCADIA at ImperialImperialY5100%60%0%97.60
2023 ARCADIA at MarylandMaryland, OnlineY3100%33%0%113.67
2023 ARCADIA OnlineMaryland, OnlineY3100%67%33%102.33
2023 ARCADIA at TexasOhio State, TexasY3100%33%0%97.33
2023 ARCADIA at Ohio StateOhio State, TexasY3100%33%0%91.33