This poet commands himself to “throw off this cloak and go!” in a poem that opens by seeing “the green farmland of the sky and the sickle of the new moon.” A work in hazaj meter by this poet echoes Imru‘ al-Qays’s comparison of the morning wind and the smell of musk to describe curls of hair that make his heart bleed. This poet quoted Yazid I to open a collection with the line “Alā yā ayyohā-s-sāqī,” or “Come, o wine-pourer!” This poet was allegedly called before (*) Timur to answer for a verse claiming he would exchange Samarkand and Bukhara for the mole of a Turk. The second couplet of that poem by this man mentions the “rose-walk of Mosallā” where this poet’s tomb, a prominent pilgrimage site, was later built. For 10 points, name this poet from Shirāz titled for having memorized the Qur’ān, whose ghazals are collected in a prominent Divān. ■END■
| 2025 Chicago Open | 2025-08-09 | Y | 12 | 100% | 8% | 25% | 126.92 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mitch McCullar | Thamos, King of Egypt: The Sahara of the Mozart | One Microscopic Pog in His Chat-astrophic Plan | 34 | 15 |
| Rahul Keyal | The RAND Coöperation | BHSU X | 76 | -5 |
| Mattias Ehatamm | Woke Michael Du be like "I'm a genders player" | BHSU B | 87 | -5 |
| Will Alston | Will They Ever Finish Bruckner’s Ninth Boulevard? | The Met on Laserdisc. Bravo! | 105 | 10 |
| Charles Young | Halifax Shipping Services | It's not X, but... defenders | 108 | 10 |
| John Marvin | "Real quiz bowl" only consists of the ACF academic pyramidal scene and the late 2010s NAQT scene. | Please sir, may I have some morb? | 126 | 10 |
| Auroni Gupta | BHSU X | The RAND Coöperation | 135 | 10 |
| Sinecio Morales | Enjoying the Hole Experience | "real numbers are uncountable" factoid actually just statistical error. diagonal georg | 138 | -5 |
| Henry Atkins | No, explaining that your buzz came from watching an isekai is not "Proustian" | Big is moving to Evanston! | 139 | 10 |
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| Jordan Brownstein | I worship the Pyramid (abandoned Soviet coal mining settlement on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard) | Broken Socal Scene | 142 | 10 |
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| Eric Mukherjee | Floridovician | 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 2k5, RNBQKBNR b Q - 99 66 | 144 | 10 |
| Joel Miles | "real numbers are uncountable" factoid actually just statistical error. diagonal georg | Enjoying the Hole Experience | 152 | 10 |
| Matt Bollinger | BHSU B | Woke Michael Du be like "I'm a genders player" | 153 | 10 |