Question
Answer the following about Henry Newbolt’s cricket poem “Vitai Lampada,” for 10 points each.
[10m] In “Vitai Lampada,” young Britons are told to “play up! and play the game!” both when playing cricket and serving in this war. Rudyard Kipling wrote “If—” as a tribute to the leader of an event that caused this war.
ANSWER: Boer War [accept Second Boer War or Second Anglo-Boer War; accept Transvaal War; prompt on Jameson Raid by asking “what war did that event result in?”; reject “First Boer War” or “First Anglo-Boer War”]
[10e] As a Victorian poem written to honor the bravery of fallen Britons in battle, “Vitai Lampada” resembles this Alfred, Lord Tennyson poem about the Battle of Balaclava.
ANSWER: “The Charge of the Light Brigade”
[10h] This poet credits memorizing “Vitai Lampada” in school for igniting his passion for poetry. This spoken word “punk poet” from Salford used the adjective “bloody” 80 times in his angry, profane poem “Evidently Chickentown.”
ANSWER: John Cooper Clarke
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Summary
| California | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 10.00 | 83% | 17% | 0% |
| Midwest | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
| Northeast | 2025-02-01 | Y | 5 | 12.00 | 100% | 20% | 0% |
| Pacific Northwest | 2025-02-01 | Y | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| South Central | 2025-02-01 | Y | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| Southeast | 2025-02-01 | Y | 1 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | Y | 8 | 13.75 | 100% | 38% | 0% |
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| BU | Harvard A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| MIT A | Brandeis B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Harvard B | Brown A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Brandeis A | Dartmouth A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Tufts A | UMass Boston | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |