Question
A soldier in this conflict is depicted “musing o’er his scars, and wooden leg” in a poem that ends with the italicized phrase “famine and a name!” Another poem set in this conflict describes a future “born on the night-wind of the past” and a “word that shall echo forevermore!” The line “By the rude bridge that arched the flood” opens a “Hymn” about a battle in this conflict by Ralph Waldo Emerson. Philip Freneau was often called the “Poet of” this conflict, which was also the setting of a poem whose title character “spread the alarm through every Middlesex village and farm.” For 10 points, what conflict is the setting of Longfellow’s poem “Paul Revere’s Ride?” ■END■
ANSWER: American Revolution [or American Revolutionary War or American War of Independence; prompt on Battle of Concord by asking “that was part of what wider conflict?”] (The poem in the first line is “The American Soldier” by Philip Freneau.)
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= Average correct buzz position
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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Tai Belke | UBC A | UW Wrath | 82 | 10 |
Summary
2024 ACF Fall at Cornell | fall | Y | 10 | 100% | 0% | 70% | 113.00 |
2024 ACF Fall at Ohio State | fall | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 38% | 92.63 |
2024 ACF Fall at Washington | fall | Y | 1 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 82.00 |
2024 ACF Fall at Georgia | fall | Y | 12 | 100% | 0% | 25% | 100.67 |
2024 ACF Fall at North Carolina | fall | Y | 9 | 100% | 0% | 11% | 100.56 |
2024 ACF Fall at Claremont Colleges | fall | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 60% | 107.20 |
2024 ACF Fall at Rutgers | fall | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 25% | 102.50 |
2024 ACF Fall at Illinois | fall | Y | 9 | 100% | 0% | 22% | 98.44 |