Question
In a John Hollander poem, this man is tasked with “work, half-measuring, half-humming” that results in the creation of nonsense names like “glurd” and “spotted glurd” before he states “Naming’s over. Day is done.” For 10 points each:
[10e] John Milton describes what man’s expulsion from the Garden of Eden in Paradise Lost?
ANSWER: Adam [accept “Adam’s Task”]
[10m] In “The Waste Land,” the nonsense sounds “Twit twit twit / Jug jug jug jug jug jug” reference Philomela’s turning into this animal, which, in a different poem, is described as “not born for death, immortal.”
ANSWER: nightingale [accept “Ode to a Nightingale”; prompt on bird]
[10h] The sound of a “pencil that squeaks on slate” is compared to the sound of this nonsense creature, which cemented the friendship of the Beaver and the Butcher in a poem subtitled “An Agony in Eight Fits.”
ANSWER: jubjub bird [prompt on bird] (The poem is “The Hunting of the Snark” by Lewis Carroll.)
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Summary
| 2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Waterloo | 2024-11-09 | Y | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at GT | 2024-12-06 | Y | 4 | 12.50 | 75% | 50% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Illinois | 2024-11-09 | Y | 1 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Warwick | 2024-12-06 | Y | 5 | 16.00 | 100% | 60% | 0% |
Data
| Illinois Orange | Chicago A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |