Question
One character with this profession is told in the House of Busyrane to “be bold”, but “not too bold,” and gives new clothes to the victims of Radigund. Other characters with this job escape the House of Pride and the Bower of Bliss after being tempted by Acrasia and Duessa. In a bob-and-wheel poem, a character with this profession kisses his host in exchange for a deer, a boar, and a fox. A character with this profession is separated from (*) Una by the evil Archimago. The chaste woman Britomart has this job, as does a “Redcrosse” one of these people in The Fairie Queene. The Pearl Poet wrote about a man who waits a year and a day to be beheaded by a “green” character with this job. For 10 points, what job was held by Sir Gawain? ■END■
ANSWER: knight [accept the Redcrosse Knight; accept Sir Gawain and the Green Knight; prompt on soldier or warrior or equivalents]
<Yingzhi Nyang, Literature - British - Poetry> ~25767~ <Editor: Jaimie Carlson>
= Average correct buzz position
Summary
2023 PACE NSC | 06/10/2023 | Y | 34 | 97% | 53% | 0% | 86.27 |
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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Kaiwen Xiao | Irvington A | Heights | 37 | 0 |
Elliott Lee | Thomas Jefferson A | Detroit Country Day | 51 | 0 |
Rohan Navaneetha | Solon | Troy | 55 | 20 |
Tanay Bodducherla | Mira Loma | Thomas Jefferson B | 56 | 20 |
Rachel Ezrielev | Richard Montgomery | Detroit Catholic Central A | 58 | 20 |
Cindy Gao | Belmont | Hunter A | 58 | 20 |
Omkar Marathe | William Fremd | Maggie Walker A | 58 | 20 |
Evan Lin | Woodland | Canyon Crest | 59 | 20 |
Kyunghwan Lim | Chattahoochee A | Choate Rosemary Hall | 59 | 20 |
Rohan Kher | Barrington A | Rockford Auburn A | 59 | 20 |
Nathan Wu | Plymouth | Dallas County | 61 | 20 |
Aeres Zhou | Detroit Country Day | Thomas Jefferson A | 66 | 20 |
Riona Duncan | Walter Payton | Thomas Jefferson D | 66 | 20 |
Krish Chinta | Innovation Academy A | Carl Sandburg | 68 | 20 |
Monit Karmaker | Stevenson A | Winston Churchill B | 71 | 20 |
Rohan Dalal | Johns Creek B | Winnebago | 71 | 20 |
Owen Arneson | Parkway West | Mexico | 71 | 20 |
Eden Blakemore | John Adams A | Innovation Academy B | 71 | 20 |
Brodie Henry | West Point | Northmont B | 72 | 20 |
Stella Broome | Maggie Walker B | Rockford Auburn B | 75 | 20 |
Michelle Luo | Johns Creek A | Dunbar | 83 | 10 |
Jiming Chen | Hinsdale Central | New Brighton | 87 | 10 |
Adam Williams | Northmont A | Thomas Jefferson C | 88 | 10 |
Alvin Guo | Winston Churchill A | St. Mark's | 99 | 10 |
Charles Heydt | Midtown | Lincoln-Way East | 99 | 10 |
Cole Hartung | Kinkaid | University Lab | 99 | 10 |
Johnathon Franke Gordon | Stevenson B | Saint Joseph | 105 | 0 |
Dominic Apap | Detroit Catholic Central B | Detroit Catholic Central C | 110 | 10 |
David Bertolasi | Belvidere | Washington | 119 | 10 |
Kaitlyn Leonard | Barrington B | Maggie Walker C | 120 | 10 |
Ryan Dai | Carbondale | Chattahoochee B | 124 | 10 |
Ella Sheffield | Mercer County | Hoover B | 124 | 10 |
Miles Sierra | Waukee | Moberly | 127 | 10 |
William Thain | Saint Joseph | Stevenson B | 137 | 0 |
Brayden Ferrell | Heights | Irvington A | 138 | 10 |
Clete Reinberger | Cincinnati Hills Christian | Lake Highland | 138 | 10 |
Maya Pandit | Hunter B | Elkhorn North | 138 | 10 |