Bonus

This poem’s concluding image of “Mary without spot” is a reference to a historical debate about the Immaculate Conception. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this poem that describes a certain “Towery city” as “[c]uckoo-echoing, bell-swarmèd, lark charmed, rook-racked, river-rounded.”
ANSWER: “Duns Scotus’s Oxford”
[10e] “Duns Scotus’s Oxford” is by this Victorian poet and Jesuit priest, whose philosophy-themed poem “That Nature is Heraclitean (“hera-CLY-tee-un”) Fire” uses his trademark “sprung rhythm.”
ANSWER: Gerard Manley Hopkins
[10m] Hopkins’s contemporary Matthew Arnold wrote a closet drama about this other philosopher, which concludes with Callicles’s (“CAL-ih-kleez’s”) song to Apollo, and is excerpted in the Oxford Book of English Verse.
ANSWER: Empedocles (“em-PED-oh-kleez”) [accept Empedocles on Etna]
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TeamOpponentPart 1Part 2Part 3TotalParts
British ColumbiaGeorgia State0101020EM
Chicago AWUSTL A010010E
Columbia BRIT010010E
Cornell AGeorgia Tech0101020EM
Cornell BMichigan0000
Johns HopkinsHarvard010010E
LSEUC Berkeley B010010E
MITChicago B010010E
MarylandNorth Carolina B0000
MinnesotaIowa State010010E
NYUWaterloo B010010E
NorthwesternColumbia A010010E
OttawaArizona State0101020EM
Penn StateFlorida10101030HEM
RutgersIndiana0101020EM
StanfordNorth Carolina A0101020EM
TexasToronto C0101020EM
Toronto AWaterloo A0101020EM
UC Berkeley AIllinois A010010E
VanderbiltOhio State010010E
VirginiaIllinois B010010E
Virginia TechToronto B0101020EM
WUSTL BYale0101020EM
Winona StateUCF0101020EM

Summary

TournamentExact Match?HeardPPBEasy %Medium %Hard %
2025 ACF NationalsYes2414.1792%46%4%