Question
In a poem in this language, the speaker shouts “Shurba” to celebrate his success in the board game Bao. For 10 points each:
[10e] Identify this language. The “Poem of Mercifulness” and an epic about the Battle of Tambuka are two of the most prominent of this East African lingua franca’s epics in utendi form.
ANSWER: Swahili [or Kiswahili]
[10h] A leader of this state alternatively titles the Utendi wa Tambuka epic. Literature produced under this state included “An Entertaining Tale of Quadrupeds” and songs celebrating frontiersmen like a “two-blood border lord.”
ANSWER: Byzantine Empire [or the Eastern Roman Empire] (The leader is Heraclius, and the “two-blood border lord” refers to Digenes Akritas.)
[10m] In 1952, the Tanzanian poet Shaaban Robert produced a translation of this poem, which is similar in form to the Swahili shairi. In this poem, the line “Surely not in vain / My substance of the common earth was ta’en” is spoken by one of several clay pots.
ANSWER: Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyam
<Literature - World Literature - Misc Literature>
Summary
| 2024 ARGOS @ Chicago | 11/23/2024 | Y | 1 | 30.00 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
Data
| BHSU ReFantazio | BHSU Rebirth | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |