Question
In William Cullen Bryant’s translation, a José María Heredia poem personifies one of these events as a giant in “gray skirts” and exclaims, “He is come! He is come!” For 10 points each:
[10m] Fernanda Melchor’s debut novel is titled for what sort of event? This specific type of event “does not roar in pentameter” according to Kamau Brathwaite’s “History of the Voice.”
ANSWER: hurricanes [accept “En una tempestad: Al huracán,” “Oda al huracán,” “The Hurricane,” Hurricane Season, or Temporada de huracanes; prompt on seasons or temporada]
[10e] Heredia is often considered Latin America’s first Romantic poet due to “Al huracán” and other poems he wrote while exiled from this island. A poet from this island wrote the essay “Our America.”
ANSWER: Cuba
[10h] A plaque at this place quotes José Martí’s remark that Heredia awakened Cuba’s “passion for freedom.” Heredia’s best-known poem asks this place of “sublime terror” to show him “the fearful beauty of thy face!”
ANSWER: Niagara Falls
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Summary
| 2024 Chicago Open | 07/28/2024 | Y | 13 | 17.69 | 92% | 69% | 15% |
Data
| SAYYID QUTB, DRIVING THE LONGEST CAR YOU’VE EVER SEEN THROUGH TAHRIR SQUARE | A Nervy Liberal Nanny Hence | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| The Empire Bikes Back | Are You There, Chat? It's Me, Margaret | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Galvanized Square Steen and Eco-Friendly Wood Vermeer | Charlotte's Moderately Successful Team | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| I’ll take a quiet 10 / A handshake of CO (Chicago Open) | Lying on a Mattress at Lou’s Apartment in Pilsen, Chicago | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| LMM's LLM MLM | genAI this, genAI that, have you found your 真爱 yet | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Les Missourables | Lisan al-Quib | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| NJTRANSit (and anwen, I guess) | Berkeley Mafia and the Chicago Boy | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| AMOGH QUIZ HACK? 英雄联盟 400 PPG 24 TUH | NJTRANSit (and bobby, i guess) | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Punished "Venom" BHSU | The Jeam Team | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| The Dyatlov Passement incident | First Cause, First Cause, make me young! | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| BHSU B | The Oldest Men in the World | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| when you look this good, you don’t have to know anything | We Need New Names | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Read slowly: A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A Read quickly: A | var merchants | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |