Question
The speaker of a poem notes how she had not thought of these objects, their “wild, shy kind” that evoke “mincing little fops / And cabarets and soaps.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Name these objects, which the speaker dreams of along with “my soul’s forgotten gleam” in the 1917 poem “Sonnet.” A collection titled for these objects includes the poems “Three Thoughts” and “Love and the Butterfly.”
ANSWER: violets [or Violets and Other Tales; prompt on flowers]
[10e] Violets and Other Tales is by a poet with this surname who wrote The Goodness of St. Rocque. Her husband with this surname wrote, “I know why the caged bird sings,” in “Sympathy.”
ANSWER: Dunbar [accept Alice Dunbar or Alice Dunbar-Nelson or Alice Ruth Moore; accept Paul Laurence Dunbar]
[10m] Dunbar Nelson’s poem “April is on the Way” juxtaposes daffodils and blooming “golden buds” with one of these objects. The speaker finds one of these objects in the woods in Richard Wright’s poem “Between the World and Me.”
ANSWER: a corpse [or a dead body or a cadaver or human remains or bones or skeletons]
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Summary
| 2024 ESPN @ Brown | 04/06/2024 | Y | 2 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2024 ESPN @ Cambridge | 04/06/2024 | Y | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| 2024 ESPN @ Chicago | 03/23/2024 | Y | 6 | 6.67 | 67% | 0% | 0% |
| 2024 ESPN @ Columbia | 03/23/2024 | Y | 7 | 15.71 | 100% | 57% | 0% |
| 2024 ESPN @ Duke | 03/23/2024 | Y | 2 | 10.00 | 50% | 50% | 0% |
| 2024 ESPN @ Online | 06/01/2024 | Y | 3 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
Data
| The Aum-Wein Drinchard by Amogh Tutuola | JJaryland | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| JinAh and Jordan from Wikiquiz | mnemonists | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Sandmännchen im Helikopter | NJ TRANSit (and bobby i guess) | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Naocissus and Geoldmond by Hermandrew Hesse | chamPAIN and cornHELL in Columbia | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| 1.g4 Test Mixture | Parden the Interruption | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| boy's jitches (ft. DMA) | bruh | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| protobowling for soup | Let's Fighting Love | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |