A poet in this language depicted a youth who knocks over a brass kettle, ruining his planned tryst, in the comic poem “Trouble in a Tavern.” A female erotic poet in this language responded to a predecessor’s “Poem to the Penis” in her own explicit “Poem to the Vagina.” Poets in this language mastered the “twenty-four classical meters” to compete in a poetic festival that, according to a somewhat invented tradition, awarded expensive chairs to the winners. To aid their memory, storytellers in this language wrote (*) catalogs that grouped topics under headings like “the three obstructers of slaughter.” Those “triads” appear alongside stories in this language in The Red Book of Hergest and The White Book of Rhydderch. For 10 points, name this language from which Lady Charlotte Guest translated the Four Branches of the Mabinogi. ■END■
| 2025 Chicago Open | 2025-08-09 | Y | 11 | 100% | 18% | 9% | 98.00 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tracy Mirkin | Floridovician | "real numbers are uncountable" factoid actually just statistical error. diagonal georg | 27 | 15 |
| Jordan Brownstein | I worship the Pyramid (abandoned Soviet coal mining settlement on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard) | "Real quiz bowl" only consists of the ACF academic pyramidal scene and the late 2010s NAQT scene. | 44 | 15 |
| Rahul Keyal | The RAND Coöperation | Mumbo Jumbo Will Labubu | 59 | -5 |
| Stephen Liu | Will They Ever Finish Bruckner’s Ninth Boulevard? | Halifax Shipping Services | 97 | 10 |
| Aseem Keyal | Broken Socal Scene | 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 2k5, RNBQKBNR b Q - 99 66 | 101 | 10 |
| Rob Carson | BHSU X | Please sir, may I have some morb? | 101 | 10 |
| JinAh Kim | The True Dharma Eye of the Juan Soto School | The Met on Laserdisc. Bravo! | 105 | 10 |
| Mitch McCullar | Thamos, King of Egypt: The Sahara of the Mozart | It's not X, but... defenders | 111 | 10 |
| Sky Li | Woke Michael Du be like "I'm a genders player" | Big is moving to Evanston! | 111 | 10 |
| James Orefice | Enjoying the Hole Experience | Li Bai Chocolate Mushussu Pacha Latte | 115 | 10 |
| Henry Atkins | No, explaining that your buzz came from watching an isekai is not "Proustian" | One Microscopic Pog in His Chat-astrophic Plan | 130 | 10 |
| Jason Shi | Mumbo Jumbo Will Labubu | The RAND Coöperation | 136 | 10 |