Samoa - 2024 PLAYTIME @ Harvard

Question

A poet born in this present-day country detailed his country’s founding in the first section of his poem “Inside Us the Dead.” For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this birth country of Albert Wendt. A tombstone for Robert Louis Stevenson, who died in this country, is inscribed with a poem claiming “This be the verse you grave for me/Here he lies where he longed to be.”

ANSWER: Samoa [or Independent State of Samoa or Malo Sa’oloto Tuto’atasi o Somoa; accept Western Samoa; reject “American Samoa”]

[10e] The poem on Robert Louis Stevenson’s tombstone was the source of the title of this British poet’s poem “This Be the Verse.”

ANSWER: Philip Larkin [or Philip Arthur Larkin]

[10m] This other British poet visited Stevenson’s house in Samoa before going off to fight in World War I. This poet of “Tiare Tahiti” wrote “there’s some corner of a foreign field/that is for ever England” in “The Soldier.”

ANSWER: Rupert Brooke [or Rupert Chawner Brooke]

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2025 PLAYTIME @ CWRU	12/10/2024	Y	5	8.00	80%	0%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Claremont	12/10/2024	Y	5	12.00	60%	40%	20%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Florida	12/10/2024	Y	3	26.67	100%	100%	67%
2024 PLAYTIME @ Harvard	04/26/2025	Y	4	10.00	50%	25%	25%
2024 PLAYTIME @ JHU	10/26/2024	Y	4	10.00	50%	25%	25%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Northwest	12/10/2024	Y	4	2.50	25%	0%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME Online	04/26/2025	Y	9	16.67	100%	44%	22%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Sheffield	12/10/2024	Y	7	11.43	71%	14%	29%
2024 PLAYTIME @ UBC	10/05/2024	Y	8	17.50	100%	63%	13%
2024 PLAYTIME @ Virginia Tech	07/11/2025	Y	3	23.33	100%	100%	33%
2024 PLAYTIME @ WashU	10/12/2024	Y	6	10.00	83%	17%	0%

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Brandeis	Belmont	0	0	0	0
BU	Brown	0	0	0	0
Lexington	Harvard	10	10	10	30
RIT	MIT	0	10	0	10