Bonus
In this poem, the speaker comments that “heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter” while observing a piper playing music and two lovers about to kiss. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this ekphrastic poem whose title subject is addressed as a “still unravish’d bride of quietness” and a “foster child of silence and slow time.” This poem ends by declaring that “beauty is truth, truth beauty.”
ANSWER: “Ode on a Grecian Urn”
[10e] “Ode on a Grecian Urn” is by this Romantic English poet, whose other works include “La Belle Dame sans Merci” and “Ode to a Nightingale.”
ANSWER: John Keats
[10h] Following Keats’ death, Percy Shelley eulogized him in this elegy. This poem asks, “Where was lorn Urania when [the title character of this poem] died?”
ANSWER: “Adonais” (“add-on-AY-iss”) [or “Adonais: An Elegy on the Death of John Keats, Author of Endymion, Hyperion, etc.”]
<Edinburgh A, British Literature>
| Editions | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 95 | 14.00 | 77% | 45% | 18% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Binghamton A | Rochester | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Binghamton B | RIT A | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Cornell A | Binghamton C | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Cornell D | Cornell C | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | MEH |
| Cornell D | Cornell C | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | MEH |
| Cornell D | Cornell C | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | MEH |
| Cornell D | Cornell C | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | MEH |
| Cornell D | Cornell C | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | MEH |
| Cornell D | Cornell C | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | MEH |
| Cornell D | Cornell C | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | MEH |
| Cornell D | Cornell C | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | MEH |
| RIT B | Cornell B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Exact Match? | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UK (North) | UK | Y | 5 | 10.00 | 60% | 20% | 20% |
| Northern California | US | Y | 4 | 17.50 | 100% | 75% | 0% |
| Southern California | US | Y | 7 | 12.86 | 86% | 43% | 0% |
| Eastern Canada (1) | US | Y | 5 | 16.00 | 60% | 60% | 40% |
| Florida | US | Y | 4 | 10.00 | 50% | 25% | 25% |
| Great Lakes | US | Y | 10 | 16.00 | 70% | 70% | 20% |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | US | Y | 9 | 18.89 | 100% | 67% | 22% |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | US | Y | 9 | 10.00 | 78% | 22% | 0% |
| North | US | Y | 4 | 15.00 | 100% | 25% | 25% |
| Northeast | US | Y | 12 | 19.17 | 92% | 67% | 33% |
| Pacific | US | Y | 8 | 10.00 | 75% | 25% | 0% |
| Southeast | US | Y | 12 | 11.67 | 67% | 33% | 17% |
| Upstate NY | US | Y | 6 | 11.67 | 50% | 33% | 33% |