Question
A character with this surname combats his insomnia by imagining conversations between his family members and important figures from his childhood, such as Lisa Simpson. For 10 points each:
[10h] Give this surname of Cyrus, the protagonist of Kaveh Akbar’s novel Martyr! A poet with this given name spent 40 days in Konya teaching a pupil who later dedicated a divan to him.
ANSWER: Shams [accept Cyrus Shams; accept Shams Tabrizi or Shams of Tabriz or Shams al-din Muhammad]
[10e] Another of Cyrus’s dreams features this Sufi Persian poet, a student of Shams Tabrizi whose mystical poetry includes the Spiritual Couplets.
ANSWER: Rumi [or Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī]
[10m] Cyrus has a dream of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar talking hoops with his imaginary brother named for this person. The claim that “[this person] Was One-Sixteenth Black” titles a Nadine Gordimer story collection.
ANSWER: Ludwig van Beethoven
<HG, World Literature>
Summary
| 2024 ARCADIA at BU | 2024-12-06 | Y | 8 | 13.75 | 88% | 38% | 13% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Duke | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 25.00 | 100% | 100% | 50% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Missouri S&T | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 80.00 | 400% | 200% | 200% |
| 2024 ARCADIA Online | 2025-05-17 | Y | 5 | 24.00 | 100% | 100% | 40% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Penn State | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Florida Tech | 2024-12-06 | Y | 4 | 7.50 | 25% | 50% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 25.00 | 100% | 100% | 50% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Waterloo | 2024-11-09 | Y | 6 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at GT | 2024-12-06 | Y | 5 | 16.00 | 100% | 60% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Illinois | 2024-11-09 | Y | 4 | 22.50 | 100% | 75% | 50% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Warwick | 2024-12-06 | Y | 5 | 10.00 | 80% | 20% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Claremont | 2024-11-02 | Y | 3 | 26.67 | 100% | 100% | 67% |
Data
| Truman | Squidward Community College | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Truman | Squidward Community College | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Truman | Squidward Community College | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Truman | Squidward Community College | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Truman | Squidward Community College | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Truman | Squidward Community College | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Truman | Squidward Community College | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Truman | Squidward Community College | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |