Question

The 2018 song “Bagdad” was inspired by a work in this language about an imprisoned woman (-5[1])who communicates with a knight by kissing the Psalter at church. A poet in this language who claimed to “love the wind / and chase the hare with the ox” was praised in the book The Spirit (10[1])of Romance. (10[2])Razos accompanied colorful biographies in this language of poets who were the first to compete in “floral games.” A poet who developed the sirventes form in this language is seen in a later work carrying his decapitated head like a lantern in the Malebolge (“mal-ih-BOLJ”). The dedication (-5[1])to Ezra Pound in The Waste Land as (-5[1])“il miglior fabbro” (“meel-YOR FAH-bro”) quotes Dante’s praise of a poet in this language who invented the sestina. (10[1])For 10 points, Arnaut Daniel (“ar-NAWD don-YEL”) and other medieval troubadours performed in what (10[1])Romance language (10[1])of southern France? ■END■ (10[4])

ANSWER: Occitan (“OCK-sit-in”) [or Provençal; or Old Occitan; accept langue d’oc] (The lead-in refers to the romance Flamenca, which inspired Rosalía’s album El Mal Querer. The Spirit of Romance is by Ezra Pound.)
<HG, European Literature>
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Summary

Florida2025-02-01Y367%0%100%142.00
Great Lakes2025-02-01Y683%0%83%140.20
Lower Mid-Atlantic2025-02-01Y6100%0%17%120.33
Midwest2025-02-01Y6100%0%33%97.83
North2025-02-01Y3100%0%33%120.67
Northeast2025-02-01Y5100%0%80%140.20
Overflow2025-02-01Y580%0%60%101.25
Pacific Northwest2025-02-01Y250%0%100%142.00
South Central2025-02-01Y250%0%100%142.00
Southeast2025-02-01Y4100%0%100%138.25
UK2025-02-01Y10100%0%30%112.60
Upper Mid-Atlantic2025-02-01Y8100%0%25%129.50
Upstate NY2025-02-01Y367%0%67%139.00

Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Percy YuenCambridge DOxford C15-5
Justin LeeImperial AWarwick A5210
Albert NyangLSEWarwick B5410
Arya KarthikOxford ASheffield5410
Brendan BethlehemCambridge ASouthampton B100-5
Matt SheldonOxford BManchester108-5
Ben LaFondCambridge BImperial B12410
Jacob Hardin-BernhardtNYU CCambridge E13610
Arvin BoraghiCambridge CDurham13810
James ByrneBristolSouthampton A14210
Joel DickerSouthampton BCambridge A14210
Kai MadgwickManchesterOxford B14210
Benjamin WatsonOxford CCambridge D14210