Question
One of this author’s title characters holds on to the beard of a dwarf for three days in a bid to rescue his bride, who was abducted on their wedding night. Another of this author’s characters goes mad when Parasha’s home is destroyed in a flood, causing him to curse a statue. Vikram Seth’s novel The Golden Gate uses a type of stanza that this poet developed for a work whose title character rejects a love letter by a girl who later marries Prince Gremin. This poet of Ruslan and Ludmila used himself as a model for the character Lensky, who is killed in a duel by Tatiana’s love interest. For 10 points, name this Russian poet of “The Bronze Horseman” and Eugene Onegin. ■END■
ANSWER: Alexander Pushkin [or Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin]
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Summary
2024 ACF Fall at Cornell | fall | Y | 9 | 78% | 0% | 11% | 112.86 |
2024 ACF Fall at Ohio State | fall | Y | 7 | 86% | 0% | 29% | 96.17 |
2024 ACF Fall at Washington | fall | Y | 1 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 63.00 |
2024 ACF Fall at Georgia | fall | Y | 12 | 75% | 0% | 0% | 89.11 |
2024 ACF Fall at North Carolina | fall | Y | 7 | 57% | 0% | 29% | 98.00 |
2024 ACF Fall at Claremont Colleges | fall | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 88.80 |
2024 ACF Fall at Rutgers | fall | Y | 8 | 75% | 0% | 0% | 110.00 |
2024 ACF Fall at Illinois | fall | Y | 9 | 89% | 0% | 11% | 101.88 |
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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Victor Bender | Penn State | U of Rochester B | 92 | 10 |
Victor Bender | Penn State | U of Rochester B | 92 | 10 |
Alec Riso | Cornell D | Binghamton A | 109 | -5 |
Alec West | Syracuse | RIT A | 112 | 10 |
Giuseppe Piccirilli | Binghamton A | Cornell D | 123 | 10 |
Pranaav Senthilkumar | Cornell C | RIT B | 123 | 10 |
Iris Liang | Cornell G | Cornell A | 124 | 0 |
Anna Kuang | Cornell E | U of Rochester A | 124 | 10 |
Bianca Van Zile | Binghamton B | Cornell B | 124 | 10 |
Elijah O'Sick Johnson | Binghamton C | Cornell F | 124 | 0 |
Kritanu Saha | Cornell A | Cornell G | 124 | 0 |
Jonathan Zhang | Cornell F | Binghamton C | 124 | 0 |
Brian Hoff | Cornell B | Binghamton B | 124 | 0 |