Question
A poem addressing this city remarks, “The geography of my body changes. / The cells of my blood become green. / My alphabet is green.” “Poems become diaphanous (“dye-AFF-uh-nuss”)” in this city in a poem titled for its “Collar of the Dove” that provides the title of the collection The Butterfly’s Burden. The erotic collection Childhood of a Breast is by a poet from this city who wrote of its “Jasmine Scent,” Nizar Qabbani. A modernist 1963 collection titled for this city includes “The Wound” in its section “The Sorcerer of Dust,” envisions a “New Noah,” and opens each section with a prose “Psalm.” An imaginary king of this capital city was created by a poet from here who called it “something / of the wind” in the poem “A Grave for New York.” For 10 points, the collection Songs of Mihyar depicts what city, the capital of the home country of the poet Adunis? ■END■
Summary
2025 ACF Nationals | 04/19/2025 | Y | 24 | 71% | 0% | 46% | 138.82 |
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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Andrew Wang | Illinois A | Columbia A | 49 | -5 |
Jakob Myers | Indiana | UC Berkeley A | 50 | -5 |
Brian Hoff | Cornell B | Ohio State | 52 | -5 |
Amogh Kulkarni | Georgia State | LSE | 70 | 10 |
Tim Morrison | Stanford | WUSTL A | 76 | 10 |
Michael Hunding | Illinois A | Columbia A | 90 | 0 |
Mitch McCullar | Penn State | Ottawa | 90 | -5 |
Richard Niu | Cornell A | Chicago B | 132 | 10 |
Joel Miles | Minnesota | Georgia Tech | 132 | -5 |
Yrwin Batan | MIT | Texas | 132 | -5 |
Aum Mundhe | Rutgers | Waterloo A | 132 | 10 |
Anuttam Ramji | UC Berkeley B | Yale | 132 | -5 |
Moses Kitakule | Columbia A | Illinois A | 135 | 0 |
Tony Chen | Toronto A | Chicago A | 135 | -5 |
Parth Jagtap | Toronto C | Toronto B | 135 | -5 |
Noah Chin | Virginia Tech | Harvard | 135 | 10 |
Micah Colman | Waterloo B | Florida | 135 | 10 |
Thomas Tibbetts | UCF | Vanderbilt | 140 | 10 |
Jim Fan | North Carolina A | Northwestern | 141 | -5 |
Olin Bose | Columbia B | Illinois B | 153 | -5 |
Jaik Havlick | Arizona State | WUSTL B | 154 | 10 |
Ryan Rosenberg | NYU | British Columbia | 154 | 10 |
Shourjo Ganguli | Ohio State | Cornell B | 154 | 0 |
Kevin Wang | Georgia Tech | Minnesota | 154 | 0 |
Moses Kitakule | Columbia A | Illinois A | 154 | 10 |
Arjun Kala | Illinois B | Columbia B | 154 | 10 |
Conor Thompson | Iowa State | Johns Hopkins | 154 | 10 |
Jisoo Yoo | Texas | MIT | 154 | 10 |
Graham Troy | North Carolina B | Michigan | 154 | 0 |
Todd Maslyk | Michigan | North Carolina B | 154 | 0 |
Nikhil Chellam | Northwestern | North Carolina A | 154 | 0 |
Maude-Sophie Lockman | Ottawa | Penn State | 154 | 10 |
Henry Bon | Winona State | RIT | 154 | 10 |
Ned Tagtmeier | Chicago A | Toronto A | 154 | 10 |
Raymond Chen | Toronto B | Toronto C | 154 | 0 |
Nathaniel Hull | UC Berkeley A | Indiana | 154 | 0 |
Jem Burch | Yale | UC Berkeley B | 154 | 0 |
Joseph Chambers | Virginia | Maryland | 154 | 10 |