Question
“Heydar Babaya Salam” is a modern poem in this language, which was the main language used by the Sufi poet Nasimi and the first to be used by lute-playing bards called ashiks. For 10 points each:
[10h] What language’s poetry was pioneered by a ruler who named his progeny after Shahnameh characters? That ruler used the pen name “Khaṭā’ī” to write the Dahnama in a predecessor to this modern Turkic language.
ANSWER: Azerbaijani [or Azeri; or Azeri Turkic or Azeri Turkish; accept Northern Azerbaijani, Southern Azerbaijani, or Iranian Azerbaijani; accept Turki or Torki; reject “Farsi” or “Persian”; reject “Turkish”] (“Heydar Babaya Salam” is by Mohammad Hossein Shahriar. The ruler is Ismā‘īl I, the first Safavid shah.)
[10m] This author’s parents took him to Azerbaijan to cure his childhood maladies, inspiring him to transcribe the folk tale “Ashik Kerib.” Princess Mary appears in a novel by this Russian author of “Death of a Poet.”
ANSWER: Mikhail Lermontov [or Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov] (The novel is A Hero of Our Time.)
[10e] This leader supported the recognition of Nizami as Azerbaijan’s national poet. A namesake epigram by Osip Mandelstam criticizes this Soviet leader, who used the pen name Soselo to write Georgian poetry.
ANSWER: Joseph Stalin [or Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin; or Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili; or Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili; accept “Stalin Epigram”]
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Summary
| Florida | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
| Great Lakes | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 16.67 | 100% | 33% | 33% |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 18.33 | 83% | 50% | 50% |
| Midwest | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
| North | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 33% | 33% |
| Northeast | 2025-02-01 | Y | 5 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| Overflow | 2025-02-01 | Y | 5 | 14.00 | 100% | 40% | 0% |
| Pacific Northwest | 2025-02-01 | Y | 2 | 20.00 | 100% | 50% | 50% |
| South Central | 2025-02-01 | Y | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| Southeast | 2025-02-01 | Y | 4 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| UK | 2025-02-01 | Y | 10 | 14.00 | 100% | 10% | 30% |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | Y | 8 | 16.25 | 100% | 50% | 13% |
| Upstate NY | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
Data
| Cornell B | Rutgers A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| George Washington A | Columbia C | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Maryland A | George Washington B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Vassar A | Haverford A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Penn B | Haverford B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Columbia B | John Jay College | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| NYU A | Penn A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Johns Hopkins A | Yale A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |