Question
G. Gregory Smith theorized that this country’s literature features a contradictory, hard-to-define “antisyzygy.” For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this country where suppers on January 25th, often held by namesake “clubs,” honor its national poet by reciting his poems like “A Man’s a Man for A’ That” and an “address” to a meat dish.
ANSWER: Scotland [or Alba; prompt on United Kingdom or UK or Great Britain; prompt on Caledonia or Caledonian antisyzygy; reject “England”] (Those suppers honor Robert Burns, the author of “Address to a Haggis.”)
[10m] Analyses of Caledonian antisyzygy often highlight the Calvinist Robert Wringhim and his shadowy, devilish double Gil-Martin, the main characters of this author’s 1823 novel The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner.
ANSWER: James Hogg
[10h] Hugh MacDiarmid picked up Smith’s “antisyzygy” and his rejection of the “sentimental trash” of this so-called “school” of poets like Ian Maclaren and J. M. Barrie. It takes its name from the Scots word for cabbage patches.
ANSWER: Kailyard School [accept kailyards]
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Summary
| 2024 Chicago Open | 07/28/2024 | Y | 15 | 14.67 | 100% | 40% | 7% |
Data
| BHSU B | A Nervy Liberal Nanny Hence | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Berkeley Mafia and the Chicago Boy | SAYYID QUTB, DRIVING THE LONGEST CAR YOU’VE EVER SEEN THROUGH TAHRIR SQUARE | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| NJTRANSit (and bobby, i guess) | Charlotte's Moderately Successful Team | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| AMOGH QUIZ HACK? 英雄联盟 400 PPG 24 TUH | Galvanized Square Steen and Eco-Friendly Wood Vermeer | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| I’ll take a quiet 10 / A handshake of CO (Chicago Open) | The Empire Bikes Back | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| LMM's LLM MLM | The Dyatlov Passement incident | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| The Oldest Men in the World | Lying on a Mattress at Lou’s Apartment in Pilsen, Chicago | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Mindgoblin of Little Hobbes | when you look this good, you don’t have to know anything | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Are You There, Chat? It's Me, Margaret | Read slowly: A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A Read quickly: A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| The Jeam Team | NJTRANSit (and anwen, I guess) | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Lisan al-Quib | There are buzzable clues everywhere for those with eyes to see | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| First Cause, First Cause, make me young! | genAI this, genAI that, have you found your 真爱 yet | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Punished "Venom" BHSU | it's the great pumpkinification objection, charlie brown | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| We Need New Names | sticking out your guyot for the ridge push; you're so seafloor spread, you're so fracture zone | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Les Missourables | var merchants | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |