Question
A female author from this city who wrote under the pen name “the World” was first translated into English by Dick Davis in his 2012 collection Faces of Love. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this city, which was home to a fourteenth-century satirist who wrote the political fable Cat and Mouse. A poem from this city claims that “hypocrisy will burn the harvest / religion reaped” before telling its author to “shrug off” his cloak “and go.”
ANSWER: Shiraz
[10e] That poem, “The Green Farmlands of the Sky,” is by this Shirazi-born author whose ghazals are collected in his Divān.
ANSWER: Hafez [or Hafiz; or Khwāja Shams-ud-Dīn Muḥammad Ḥāfeẓ-e Shīrāzī]
[10m] This collection by the Shirazi poet Sa’adi is divided into “eight gates” of instruction on ethics and statesmanship. This collection’s poem “Bani Adam” opens by declaring “human beings are members of a whole.”
ANSWER: Gulistan [or The Rose Garden]
<Literature - World Literature - Poetry>
Summary
| 2024 ARGOS @ Chicago | 11/23/2024 | Y | 6 | 10.00 | 50% | 50% | 0% |
| 2024 ARGOS @ Christ's College | 12/14/2024 | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 67% | 67% | 0% |
| 2024 ARGOS @ Columbia | 11/23/2024 | Y | 3 | 6.67 | 33% | 33% | 0% |
| 2024 ARGOS @ McMaster | 11/17/2024 | Y | 5 | 8.00 | 60% | 20% | 0% |
| 2024 ARGOS @ Stanford | 02/22/2025 | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 67% | 100% | 0% |
Data
| Communism is Soviet power plus the yassification of the whole country | I'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Ryan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan Quizbowlers | Moderator Can't Neg me While in Alpha | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| She Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA Interfere | The Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork Orange | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Tensei Shitara Flashcard Data Ken | You cannot go to Aarhus to see his peat-brown head / With eyes like ripening fruit | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Simpson Agonistes: The Crisis of Donut | as rational as the square root of two power bottoms | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |