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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Albert Nyang | LSE A | Birmingham A | 43 | 10 |
| Charlie Lowman | Imperial A | Sheffield A | 73 | -5 |
| Antoni Kluzowski | Warwick A | Manchester A | 81 | 10 |
| Michael Wu | Southampton A | Edinburgh A | 83 | 10 |
| Antara Bhattacharya | Cambridge B | Warwick B | 83 | 10 |
| Arthur Bellamy | Oxford B | Edinburgh B | 95 | 10 |
| Eveline Ong | Oxford A | Cambridge C | 99 | 10 |
| Jacob Price | Cambridge A | Bristol A | 116 | 10 |
| CT Tang | Sheffield B | Durham A | 119 | 10 |
| Artem Borisov | Bristol B | Cambridge D | 141 | 10 |
| Abdelrahman Elsisi | Sheffield A | Imperial A | 150 | 10 |
| Anirudh Terdal | LSE B | Durham B | 151 | 0 |
| Rufus Gladwell | Durham B | LSE B | 151 | 0 |
| Zachary Foster | City St George's A | Imperial C | 151 | 10 |