Question
The narrator of a poem by this author falls asleep after reading Cicero’s Somnium Scipionis and dreams that Scipio Africanus is guiding him to a celestial gate. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this author who wrote about a debate between eagles that occurs when Nature convenes the birds to pick their mates in his Parlement of Foules.
ANSWER: Geoffrey Chaucer
[10h] In this other Middle English debate poem, one participant says that her opponent is only useful as a scarecrow. This poem’s two title birds seek out Nicholas of Guildford to settle their debate.
ANSWER: The Owl and the Nightingale [or Hule and the Nightingale; or Altercatio inter filomenam et bubonem]
[10m] In John Clanvowe’s The Book of Cupid, God of Love, the nightingale defends love in a debate with this other bird, which the narrator chases off with a stone. The poem “Sumer is icumen in” asks this bird to sing.
ANSWER: cuckoo [or cuccu or cukkow; accept common cuckoo or European cuckoo or other species]
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Summary
| 2024 ACF Nationals | 2024-04-21 | Y | 24 | 12.50 | 83% | 29% | 13% |
Data
| Berkeley B | Cornell B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Chicago C | Minnesota B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| McGill | Chicago D | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Toronto B | Claremont Colleges | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Arizona State | Columbia B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Ottawa | Duke | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Florida | Yale B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Georgia Tech | Berkeley A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Harvard | Vanderbilt | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Indiana | Chicago A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Maryland | Iowa State | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Johns Hopkins | Northwestern | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Truman State | Kentucky | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Illinois | Michigan | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Minnesota A | Chicago B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Brown | NYU | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| North Carolina A | Purdue | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| South Carolina | North Carolina B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Penn | Rutgers | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| WUSTL A | Stanford | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Cornell A | Texas | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Virginia | WUSTL B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Columbia A | Waterloo | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Yale A | Toronto A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |