A poem by this author describes a woman who is “sick to her marrow bone” and “utterly alone.” A poem by this author concludes, “For one moment of peace / I would give the peace of the tomb.” The narrator says that “Mary Magdalene beat her breasts and sobbed” in a poem by this author that opens, “No foreign sky protected me.” This author, who was called “half nun, half whore,” wrote a poem in which a woman with “lips blue” asks the narrator, “can you describe this?” At the beginning of one of her poems, this author wrote, “I have lit my treasured candles, / one by one.” The sections “Crucifixion” and “Instead of a Preface” appear in a poem by this author of “Poem Without a Hero” about a woman who waits seventeen months outside of a prison in Leningrad. For 10 points, name this Soviet author of “Requiem.” ■END■
| Northern California | Main | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 87.60 |
| Southern California | Main | Y | 1 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 75.00 |
| Eastern Canada | Main | Y | 12 | 75% | 0% | 0% | 92.44 |
| Florida | Main | Y | 5 | 40% | 0% | 0% | 105.00 |
| Great Lakes | Main | Y | 7 | 57% | 0% | 43% | 99.25 |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | Main | Y | 5 | 80% | 0% | 40% | 93.50 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic (1) | Main | Y | 9 | 78% | 0% | 0% | 98.29 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic (2) | Main | Y | 4 | 50% | 0% | 25% | 149.00 |
| Lower Midwest | Main | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 101.75 |
| North | Main | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 133.75 |
| Northeast | Main | Y | 12 | 58% | 0% | 25% | 114.14 |
| Northwest | Main | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 84.50 |
| South Central | Main | Y | 7 | 43% | 0% | 71% | 120.67 |
| Southeast | Main | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 116.75 |
| UK | Main | Y | 12 | 92% | 0% | 8% | 105.55 |
| Upstate NY | Main | Y | 4 | 50% | 0% | 0% | 146.00 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Raymond Chen | Toronto B | McMaster A | 46 | 10 |
| Benjamin Chapman | Toronto A | Waterloo | 81 | 10 |
| Dylan Steptoe | Guelph A | Toronto F | 83 | 10 |
| Henry Siegler | Toronto D | Toronto G | 83 | 10 |
| Jesse Chusing | Ottawa | Guelph B | 87 | 10 |
| Amir Dolansky | Toronto H | Toronto E | 87 | 10 |
| Kevin Le | Carleton | Toronto Metropolitan | 91 | 10 |
| Asha Basu | McGill A | Toronto J | 132 | 10 |
| Sean Gao | Toronto K | Queen's A | 142 | 10 |
| Christina Popov | Queen's B | McGill B | 151 | 0 |
| Nabhaan Farooqi | McGill B | Queen's B | 151 | 0 |
| Carter Yott | McMaster C | McGill C | 151 | 0 |
| Luke Sloan | McGill C | McMaster C | 151 | 0 |
| Adithya Parat | McMaster B | Toronto I | 151 | 0 |
| Loukas Juritsch | Toronto I | McMaster B | 151 | 0 |