Question

The speaker of an Ogden Nash poem justifies avoiding one of these places by saying their life is like a “brief…spell of summer weather.” The speaker admires the company of songbirds like a “Bobolink” and “Orchard” in an Emily Dickinson poem titled for one of these places. In a poem, a woman who decided against going to one of these places is content with "wakened birds / Before they fly,” and hears a voice that speaks of “that tomb in (*) Palestine.” A woman asks herself why she should “give her bounty to her dead” (10[1])to justify why she isn’t going to one of these places. Because she isn’t at one of these places, a woman in a poem finds the time to contemplate the “complacencies of the peignoir.” For 10 points, a skeptical woman (10[2])in a Wallace Stevens poem has decided against going to what place on the (10[1])title “Sunday Morning”? ■END■

ANSWER: church [or “I Didn’t Go to Church Today”; or “Some Keep the Sabbath going to Church—”]
<Darren Petrosino, American Literature>
= Average correct buzz position

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Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Henry AtkinsLibrary of Babel School of Continuing StudiesWaterloo Miku8710
Tony ChenToronto WearyMixed-Affiliated Contingency, Off the Team & Absent: Wong, Adrian12710
Raymond ChenToronto RoflWaterloo Hatsune12710
Ben WismathToronto JoyLa Clique du Château14110

Summary

2023 Penn Bowl (Harvard)10/21/2023Y3100%0%0%119.00
2023 Penn Bowl (Mainsite)10/21/2023Y7100%29%0%113.14
2023 Penn Bowl (Norcal)10/28/2023Y2100%0%0%126.50
2023 Penn Bowl (South Central)10/28/2023Y3100%0%0%129.00
2023 Penn Bowl (UK)10/28/2023Y5100%0%0%128.80
2023 Penn Bowl @ Waterloo10/28/2023Y4100%0%0%120.50
2023 Penn Bowl @ UNC10/28/2023Y3100%0%0%134.67
2023 Penn Bowl @ FSU10/28/2023Y2100%0%0%151.00