Question
In a poem titled for this phrase, “28 reporters and an essayist” write up an animal “imported at great expense from / Kuala Lumpur” who is “indifferent to beauty or brutality.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Give this two-word phrase. A 1794 poem’s opening stanza asks, “What immortal hand or eye, / Could frame thy [this two-word phrase]?”
ANSWER: “fearful symmetry” (The poem is William Blake’s “The Tyger.”)
[10e] This poet wondered if any tiger could “drink martinis ... as we do” in the haiku “Symmetries and Asymmetries.” This poet also wrote “September 1, 1939.”
ANSWER: W. H. Auden [or Wystan Hugh Auden]
[10h] This contemporary of Auden described the “profitable likeness” of a tiger in the poem “Fearful Symmetry.” This poet wrote a long autobiographical poem about Northumbria titled Briggflatts.
ANSWER: Basil Bunting [or Basil Cheesman Bunting]
<CM, British Literature>
Summary
2023 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley | Premiere | Y | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
2023 ARCADIA at Carleton University | Premiere | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
2023 ARCADIA at Claremont Colleges | Premiere | Y | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
2023 ARCADIA at Duke | Emory, Duke, Yale | Y | 4 | 17.50 | 75% | 100% | 0% |
2023 ARCADIA at Emory | Emory, Duke, Yale | Y | 4 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
2023 ARCADIA at Imperial | Imperial | Y | 5 | 22.00 | 100% | 80% | 40% |
2023 ARCADIA at Indiana | Premiere | Y | 5 | 18.00 | 100% | 80% | 0% |
2023 ARCADIA at Maryland | Maryland, Online | Y | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
2023 ARCADIA at Ohio State | Ohio State, Texas | Y | 3 | 10.00 | 67% | 33% | 0% |
2023 ARCADIA Online | Maryland, Online | Y | 3 | 23.33 | 100% | 100% | 33% |
2023 ARCADIA at RIT | Premiere | Y | 2 | 20.00 | 100% | 50% | 50% |
2023 ARCADIA at Texas | Ohio State, Texas | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 67% | 67% | 0% |
2023 ARCADIA at WUSTL | Premiere | Y | 3 | 23.33 | 100% | 100% | 33% |
Data
Cambridge A | Birmingham | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
Oxford | Edinburgh | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
Imperial A | Durham | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
Cambridge B | Imperial B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
Bristol | Warwick | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |