Question

A poet from this modern-day country used the phrase “covered with these exalted beings: Venus, Jupiter, many ladies” to describe the title “Palace” of a 1959 collection. Franz Schiefner’s influential German translation of a text from this country was published shortly after an expanded version of that text incorporating work by David Europaeus. A health official from this country wrote a text that alternates between normal and “broken” (*) tetrameters in its namesake type of trochaic tetrameter. Runo-songs inspired a text from this country (10[1])that describes how a pike’s jawbone is used to make a (10[1])kantele (“kan-TAY-lay”) by a bard who helps retrieve the Sampo. This (10[1])country’s poet Elias Lönnrot compiled an epic partly about Väinämöinen. For 10 points, Paavo Haavikko was from what country, whose national epic is the Kalevala? ■END■

ANSWER: (Republic of) Finland [or Suomi or Suomen tasavalta or Republiken Finland]
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Rob CarsonBHSUWeird Klaus Barbie8210
Ethan AshbrookJeff Weiner Fan ClubOur Job is Buzz9310
Chinmay KansaradoubleplusnegfivePalestrina Sawayama10310

Summary

2023 UMN COOT08/19/2023Y3100%0%0%92.67