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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Jeffery Xu | Georgia Tech D | Vanderbilt A | 33 | 10 |
Henry Bylinowski | Auburn A | South Carolina A | 65 | 10 |
Henry Bylinowski | Auburn A | South Carolina A | 65 | 10 |
Parker McCoig | Tennessee A | Alabama A | 76 | 10 |
Ethan Altshul | Emory A | Georgia Tech C | 76 | 10 |
Alina Moore | Tennessee B | Emory Oxford | 116 | 10 |
Sawyer Smith | Mississippi State A | Auburn C | 123 | 10 |
Justin Hetrick | Belmont | Clemson B | 124 | 0 |
Hayes Brown | Furman | Georgia A | 124 | 10 |
Akajiugo Amucheazi | Southern | Auburn B | 124 | 10 |
Asheton Wilbanks | Clemson A | Georgia Tech B | 124 | 0 |
James Zhao | Vanderbilt B | South Carolina B | 124 | 0 |
Anna Hinkle | Georgia Tech B | Clemson A | 124 | 0 |
John Mcqueen | South Carolina B | Vanderbilt B | 124 | 0 |
John Shields | Clemson B | Belmont | 124 | 0 |