Question

A person of this type says, “If you don’t believe you won’t be safe” in a poem that describes them“returning less discouraged and melancholy, because love and peace…are coming to town.” A person of this type says “Verily you are suspended like scales” between the two title concepts in “On Joy and Sorrow.” A person of this type says “you are a breath in God’s sphere, and a leaf in God’s forest” in a poem that begins“Your (*) soul is a battlefield.” Almitra follows the title character’s ship departing from Orphalese at the end of a book narrated by a person of this type named Almustafa. Salman (10[1])Rushdie wrote a novel inspired by the life of one of these people that (-5[1])includes Saladin Chamcha and Gibreel Farishta, The Satanic Verses. For 10 points, name these people, one of whom titles a collection by Khalil Gibran, such (10[2])as Isaiah and (10[1])Muhammad. ■END■

ANSWER: prophets [accept The Prophet]
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Moses KitakuleColumbia BYale10610
Miles JaffeeLehigh AColumbia C120-5
Jake GrodnerPrincetonColumbia A14510
Lexi TermanRutgersLehigh B14510
Andre WongColumbia CLehigh A14810
Sam ShottesGathererNYU B15110
Jeff GuanNYU CBard15110

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2024 Booster Shot (Columbia)02/23/2024Y6100%0%17%141.00
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